Rhode Islander Ken Steinkamp recently proposed to longtime sweetheart Sandy Sikorski with a natural pearl engagement ring that is truly one of a kind. You see, the 9.8mm quahog pearl at the center of Sikorski's ring was originally hiding in an appetizer at their favorite eatery, The Bridge Restaurant and Raw Bar in downtown Westerly. According to a report by …

Last season’s NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Sauce Gardner welcomed star quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets with a piece of jewelry that had the four-time Most Valuable Player grinning from ear to ear. Emblazoned with Jets-green emeralds and white diamonds set in white gold, the #8 pendant is a nod to the jersey number the former …

A Kentucky man recently unearthed more than 700 Civil War-era gold coins that had been buried in his cornfield for 160 years. Estimated to be worth more than $2 million, the "Great Kentucky Hoard" was likely hidden from invading troops, even though Kentucky had officially claimed neutrality during the conflict. A YouTube video captures the moment when the anonymous treasure …

Arizonan Chris Whitehill had planned to pop the question to Amber Harris on a picturesque land bridge at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming last week. But just 12 hours into their vacation, a brutal encounter with a hotheaded bison landed Harris in the hospital with multiple vertebral fractures and collapsed lungs. Undaunted, Whitehill proposed to Harris from her bedside with …

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you the hottest new releases featuring jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today, British pop star Dua Lipa says that the tears you see on her face are really diamonds in "Dance the Night," the lead single from the Barbie movie soundtrack. A song about having the power to …

Dr. Jeffrey Post, the Smithsonian's long-time curator in charge of the Gems and Minerals Collection at the National Museum of Natural History, will be packing up his loupe and retiring to Wisconsin after a distinguished 39-year career in Washington, DC. Post was a post-grad at Harvard University in 1984 when he learned that there was a job opening for a …

About 175 miles north of Mumbai in the toasty west coast city of Surat, India, a 15-story complex sprawled across 35 acres will soon become the business hub for 65,000 diamond professionals, some of which were likely responsible for cutting or polishing the glittering diamonds on your ring finger. You see, Surat is where 90% of the world's diamonds are …

Pendants made from the bones of a now-extinct giant sloth are helping to rewrite the history of the "peopling" of the Americas. The long-held belief that humans reached the Americas via a land bridge between Russia and Alaska about 15,000 years ago has been turned on its head. Scientists studying the jewelry artifacts and stone tools found in the Santa …

A scuba-diving treasure hunter recently drove more than three hours to assist a woman who had lost her diamond wedding ring while swimming with her family in California's Bass Lake, just south of Yosemite National Park. The woman identified as Jennie was about 40 feet away from the dock at the man-made lake when her ring slipped off and sunk …

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you great songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Lead vocalist Mick Jagger was only 23 years old when The Rolling Stones released "Ruby Tuesday," a now-classic song that blasted to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1967 and cemented its place in rock …