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		<title>How to recognize a pearl’s quality. Part 1: nacre thickness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We now commence a new blog-delivery with a new subject: pearl quality.  How can we view this from the client’s standpoint?  Let us ask the following questions: Why should it should I pay more for higher quality?  What do I get in exchange? And the answer should be clear and concise: quality gives you value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Red Sea of Cortez”: History and Discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Making a small stop in our discussion about methodologies to identify between fake/imitation pearls and genuine pearls, we&#8217;re going into a more &#8220;historic mood&#8221;. We recently had a lively discussion with some friends about the name of our beautiful sea: the world-famous &#8220;Gulf of California” or &#8220;Sea of Cortez&#8221;.&#8221; Thus, we believed that this information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perlas.com.mx/blog/?p=275</link>
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		<title>A Method to Differentiate between Imitation &amp; Real Pearls: Drill-Hole Examination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, although we have not had many direct comments on our blog, we do have a tool that allows us to know how many daily visitors we have, it also tells us which posts have yielded a higher amount of visits and what people are searching for (keywords) before they “land” on our blog and, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perlas.com.mx/blog/?p=262</link>
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		<title>Identifying Pearls: The &#8220;Water Test&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once more we have prepared a simple test that you can easily use to help you identify pearls. Some of these identification tests were used years ago to help identify a cultured pearl from a fake (faux) or imitation pearl. Even today this little test can help you to -indirectly- distinguish between different pearls, such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perlas.com.mx/blog/?p=246</link>
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		<title>Pearl Ruckus 2010 &#8211; Los Angeles, USA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from a dizzying trip to the always impressive Californian metropolis, where I joined a select group of &#8220;Pearl-People&#8221; (people linked to the pearl industry) to discuss a subject that we always discuss: pearls,  pearls and more pearls. The interesting thing about such events is that they involve people who are in different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perlas.com.mx/blog/?p=236</link>
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		<title>Announcing the &#8220;Bicentennial&#8221; Edition Pearl Necklace 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With great pleasure and satisfaction we announce the presentation of three pearl necklaces for the year 2010. As with all previous pearl necklaces that have been produced in Mexico since our pearl farm started operations, these necklaces are made using pearls from several crops or pearl-harvests; for these 3 necklaces, we have used pearls from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perlas.com.mx/blog/?p=223</link>
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		<title>Pearl Myths: The World&#8217;s Most Expensive Dinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post started in an odd way because I was thinking about a nice, fresh, red wine than anything else. Thing is I was working on my pearls, sorting them for a photo session and both things -pearls &#38; wine- became entangled in my day-dreaming, and since one thing leads to another I ended fantasizing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perlas.com.mx/blog/?p=208</link>
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		<title>Pearl Harvest 2010 &#8211; Natural Pearls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Natural Pearls&#8230;this small phrase can mean different things depending on which portion of the food chain you are located in, so it can either mean utter nacreous ecstasy or feverish anger. Whatever your feelings are, every year we have the fortune of finding a few natural pearls within our farm-raised &#8220;Rainbow Lipped Pearl Oysters&#8221; (Pteria [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perlas.com.mx/blog/?p=202</link>
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		<title>Pearl Harvest 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is finally here&#8230;that special moment that takes place only once every year here at our Pearl Farm: the HARVEST. This year we expect to have a lower yield of pearls in comparison with last year&#8217;s, but we believe this harvest will be more beautiful than 2009&#8242;s. All these pearls will be harvested from our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perlas.com.mx/blog/?p=189</link>
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		<title>Myths in Pearldom #4: The Tooth Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This little &#8220;test&#8221;&#8230; this is yet another one of those &#8220;universal&#8221; relics that serve to identify pearls, and people around the world are still using it to prove that a pearl is pearl (and not an imitation) and that -unfortunately- is simply inaccurate. But the beauty of a myth is how we can demystify it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perlas.com.mx/blog/?p=178</link>
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