This is the most comprehensive grading course for colored stones in the market and truly unique. There is nothing else available like it. Imagine leapfrogging directly from theory to practice - a quantum leap that shaves off years in gaining the necessary experience for the business world. This is exactly what the course offers. Taking the Colored Stones Grading course would provide an essential upgrade to a career in the gems and jewelry world. The knowledge and skills provided within the course will allow the student to judge a gem's quality and price it accordingly. Course graduates would acquire the tools and abilities that would serve them in positions such as gem and jewelry valuators, auctioneers and traders.

This course will introduce you to a wide variety of the most common gems available in the world trade and explain how color, geographical origin, treatment, optical phenomena and other attributes define their quality and determine their value. The gem varieties covered are:

Using the significant database of real gem online images, as well as an actual gem-like samples kit, students will be able to practice sorting and pricing based on up-to-date prices, at a level that in real life would take years to achieve. It is a highly recommended course for any gemologist with a relation to the gem business, providing you with the needed knowledge and skills.

This course will also acquaint you with some of the most advanced and revolutionary digital color communication online tools for defining, grading and pricing of colored stones, powered by Gemewizard®. As a student of the course, you shall be assigned a class and a teacher, an experienced instructor who will accompany you for the entire duration of the course, answer your queries, check your assignments and tests and monitor your progress. Additionally, you will also have the possibility to communicate with other students of your class to share insights and discuss issues.

Graduates of the course shall receive a GW Colored Stones Grader diploma.