Oysters are the main producers of pearls, but clams and mussels can also create them. Pearls form when oysters secrete layers of nacre around irritants. There are natural and cultured pearls, with ...

A pearl does not begin as something precious. It begins as a problem. Inside an oyster, a tiny particle slips in and settles where it does not belong..

A delicate, iridescent pearl takes over two years to form. The nearly six-millimetre pearl in the above video did too. The UAE's only pearl farm in Ras Al Khaimah invites visitors to witness the ...

GEMS, precious stones and metals are mostly mined from Earth. To bring out their beauty, they are cut, cleaned and polished in various ways and a number of times until they attain the perfect shine.

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