As someone who wants to become a gemologist this really inspired me. Hopefully I’ll become Jtv’s 1st black male host &be a gg

I just turned 29 was really picky with what I wanna do for the rest of my life. but after memories as a kid being fascinated by simple rocks washed up on a beach I think I can confidently say I will be really happy learning about rare earth minerals I can't wait to start my journey of knowledge.

this channel is really motivating me to be a mineralogist tbh.

This was so fun getting a look into your guys’ pasts. Can’t wait to keep learning more about everyone!

This makes me motivated to become a Gemologist even more!! 😆

I had a massive rock collection as a child. I recently asked my mother why no one ever told me I could make a career of it 🤣

Love everyone at jtv!!

I love hearing from others who also have a passion for rocks and gemstones, things like this truly inspire me to never give up on my dream and finally finish my Geology degree!

Hey Natalie, funny seeing you here! You can thank the KZfaq algorithm for nudging me from my steady stream of luxury watch videos (shout out to Henry Valdes at Borsheims) to the wonderful world of gemstones. Maybe it was searching Robert Procop gems after a weekend exhibition I happened to be at that kick-started the KZfaq recommendations for your channel. I watched one and went hey I know her! Glad to see you doing so well! Best wishes from an old friend!

I would have thought the hardest thing Elizabeth studied would have been diamonds. *ba dum ching* Thank you! I'm here all week. Tip the wait staff.

I'm literally planning my route to doing the FGA and becoming a gemmologist. I have the Gem A Foundation exam very soon and it's really tough, so heaven knows how I'll fair with the Diploma. This video is really inspiring. Thank you!!

Before I stumbled upon JTV nearly 20 years ago, I knew nothing about certain gemstones and minerals except names. I've learned so so much just from watching JTV or watching these videos. Thanks you all for sharing your road to what lead to your careers.

Wow I really needed this, thank you so much guys. I don't think I'll stop following my dream anytime soon!

Loved hearing your stories!

that was a very nice episode.. i enjoyed finally finding out about yall.. im an old geophysicist and doctor working in italy for nato hospitals.. always loved rocks and gems

This was wonderful, I really enjoyed all the stories and the different pathways each person took!

Really awesome to hear y'all's story

It was fun hearing your stories :)

Great video! Thank you.

Loved this! Great tips and advice. It is inspiring that you can also change direction at any age and start a new career and that JTV supports self-development in your careers.

I’ve been to taxco Mexico. Super cool place. I love their silver.

Love this!💙Amazing stories

I just love this episode.........

Thank you so much for this video. Thank you all for sharing. It has changed my life. Helped send me in the direction I needed.

Wonderful team 👏

This is wonderful!

Wow! I really love this video. Jtv really makes me want to learn more and more about gemstones. I finished the AJP from GIA last year (the gave free online courses last year) and it really makes me want to take the GG course even more. But it's so expensive 😭😭😭 One day I'll definitely get that. Please do more video about gemologist equipments

I really enjoyed this ..thanks for your stories..all Three very cool

I love the show. So my question is in the last 3yrs & have discovered that I love collecting my own materials (rocks) & via lapidary means turning them into cabs etc for jewelry. I totally love learning about the rocks/minerals im using. But my biggest problem is identification. Which schooling would you suggest for someone like me? I do belong to the Sacramento Mineral Society so it helps a little.

Thank you!

I love how many options geology has as a discipline! Best subject ever! So many things to learn and do!

I am so in love with the silver fish haha. loved hearing everyone little backstory.

Fellow Nebraskan and Yes Borsheims is an Amazing Jewlery store!

Thank you so much for this video, im only 15 but I really wanna get more involved with gemstones and possibly have it as a career or just hobby so I really appreciate any insight involved thank you so much❤❤❤

Awesome awesome great history and the love of minerals etc awesome thank you

I gotta get that book!! Really enjoyed the stories how ya'll became gemologist. 😄

This was great! I loved the stories! The reference book, is that a GIA publication? I couldn’t make it out in the video. Thanks for taking the time to make this, it was very enjoyable!

The stories you guys told are very interesting.😀💎🏫 Your experience with your trips are good🙂 especially the two with the bananas and ants are funny.🤭🍌🐜 And a gem💎 that you shown are a part of them. Nice to hear your story and see you later.😊👋

Just bought a chrondrite online thanks to your video!

I found a carnelian agate at age 6 fell in love and have been collecting specimens since. I'm in washingtom so I got opalized wood petrified wood agate those ellensburg blues quartz and not alot of fun stuff I'd love to see u guys n girls do a 1hr special on washington state gems.

Interesting video- I was wondering how did you find your studies at GIA/Gem-A

Great stories! I have a question for The First gemologist. I am from Brazil, and I would like to know in which place at Belo Horizonte you did your internship?

thanks for sharing your stories on how you got started in gemology and geology. Do you have any recommendations for an online reasonably priced course for Basic Geology 101? I live in california and dont want to visit a website in India for free online course : )

Question for Natalie, what type of stones did you work with and GRADE in Brazil?

When I was four years old I live with my grand mother and we were Nomadic pastoralist family who move with thier livestock from place to place in search of grass and water. One day while I was herding flock goat kids near I cottage, I sat and picked two stones one was round and earthy color sized as one fruit of apple, I picked up irrigular sized one and I hummered with each other, after that round stone scratched and I saw golden color inside I never seen , even never heard gold. After while I looked the sky I saw in the clear sky something moving I marked white smoke track line, I never seen Aircraft before, I scared and dropped the stones into the ground and run away. I forgotten to go back to the beatiful stone and we moved away the location next morning. After years I went to my father and mother in the city and one day I saw a woman wearing gold necklace and remembered the stone and ask my mother what is this stuff, she told me gold. After years I go to school and finished university, now I am Air Traffic Controller, I am planning to leave the field of aviation and go to gemology to parsaue my childhood dream. Thank you for reading this.

I once studied to get FGA and GIA-GG and got them actually. However, I was considered useless and fired from gem identification company because my task of identification was too slow. I was disappointed that I was no longer a gemologist, so that I broke the diplomas and got a job unrelated to gemology. Now I regret not having to be FGA and GIA-GG.

Would love t know about the book, title , author and where to get it. Look forward to a reply .love the videos.

Love this!! Also, a question! How can I find out if a specimen of mine is fake? I have a huge huge collection and know for a fact their all genuine except for 2 of them! One of which i know for a fact is fake. But this piece of dogtooth i have im thinking is fake!? Any help would be nice! Tysm!

Great I have alot of precious gemstones, how to get connected to send some pictures

Yo! Another nebraskan! Go cornhuskers or something or the other state related

I was gifted thousands of different faceted gemstones taken from gold silver and platinum jewelry I have practically the whole spectrum. I literally feel like the kids from the goonies. I have purchased several books etc. and I’m trying to teach myself more about gemstones. Does anyone know anyone in Florida that could help

lol omg, Elizabeth is like me if I had a different life... we even have the same gem preferences.

Has anyone ever come across those stones with conehead people and dinosaur pictures on them? ..like a river rock ..it is crazy.i scrubbed down some and talking about wild!!! have found everything from mummified remains to raw metals..terra cotta face in a serpent mouth to diamond... I work at a rock dealer in Oklahoma so I literally come across a piece daily.

How to get gemnologist permit?

Hope your response soon

Sooo... I haven't seen anything on Chiastolite. I found a few beads of Chiastolite to make my Jewelry with but I haven't found any good informative videos on it. Maybe y'all posted something already? If not, can you?

When I worked at JTV I thought about becoming a gemologist but decided against it.

Could you please let me know the name of the book you recommend, please, thank you!

How can I order the Book The Sisk Gemology Reference: Prominent gems in Germany ? I did not find it on amazon . any one can help me to get this book online ? Thanks

What was the name of the book

60% love of gems and minerals, 40% Natalie.

Hi can you come here in Philippines and lets hunt gemstone and you lecture me as well how to become gemologest

Nice are you gems buyer also

Tell Casey in the UK my rough orange has been ready I lost my other channel the amount needed is approved over 400 carats

so as a gemologist who can explain what's going on in Arkansas? And why it is some kind of huge manipulation of the truth that stems directly from the crater of diamonds and the way they twist bits and pieces of the science to contract the true science of it? why is it that the whole story isn't told? or is it that the whole story was not carried on fully or correctly? because I don't know what you have heard, I believe the things I have read from many books on the subject, and even then sometimes only part of the story is told in an otherwise misinforming manor. I believe it is always better to have a second source of information no matter what it might be and still be skeptical.

How many does it take become a qualified Gemologist?...Does it ever drive crazy?🥲📢💜

I have a big peatl hidden from Philippine s

Pani jest owszem ładna, ale wolałabym bardziej przyjrzeć się pięknym kamieniom.

Classic, the women worked their asses off and this dude just shows up and gets paid…..

How on earth do I get to be an apprentice under you or Rebecca or any of you amazing peeps at jtv on KZfaq? I spent my entire life collecting and learning by myself about geology geology and mineralogy it's a lifelong Passion I love it more than anything I want to go to school for it more than anything through GIA or gem a and yet I can't get any financial aid or support elsewhere no grants nothing and I'm a broke single father Just trying to turn in a lifelong dream and Passion into a career I know I can do great things with is there any way you guys can help me at all I'll do anything I'll work for free just to get the knowledge I'll be your errand boy I'll do whatever I'll do all the heavy lifting so to speak. I want and need this I'm hungry meaning I want this more than most.

Not fair I've applied for both gia and gem a and I can't get in backseat I'm poor I can't get financial aid grants or any help. I can't do it alone either it's bad feeling knowing you can't progress in life or follow your dreams or make a career and provide for your child backseat you was born into poverty. I've overcome more than most been through hell and back. I want this so bad and yet I can't find anyway to get enrolled and or pay for it. Shoot as of now I just wanna get certified find job and continue my gemology and mineralogy degrees from both gem a and gia Please help How on earth do I get to be an apprentice under you or Rebecca or any of you amazing peeps at jtv on KZfaq? I spent my entire life collecting and learning by myself about geology geology and mineralogy it's a lifelong Passion I love it more than anything I want to go to school for it more than anything through GIA or gem a and yet I can't get any financial aid or support elsewhere no grants nothing and I'm a broke single father Just trying to turn in a lifelong dream and Passion into a career I know I can do great things with is there any way you guys can help me at all I'll do anything I'll work for free just to get the knowledge I'll be your errand boy I'll do whatever I'll do all the heavy lifting so to speak. I want and need this I'm hungry meaning I want this more than most.

How on earth do I get to be an apprentice under you or Rebecca or any of you amazing peeps at jtv on KZfaq? I spent my entire life collecting and learning by myself about geology geology and mineralogy it's a lifelong Passion I love it more than anything I want to go to school for it more than anything through GIA or gem a and yet I can't get any financial aid or support elsewhere no grants nothing and I'm a broke single father Just trying to turn in a lifelong dream and Passion into a career I know I can do great things with is there any way you guys can help me at all I'll do anything I'll work for free just to get the knowledge I'll be your errand boy I'll do whatever I'll do all the heavy lifting so to speak. I want and need this I'm hungry meaning I want this more than most.