Mike
Breeding
Title: Senior Manager, Analytics, Carlsbad, California USA
Areas of Expertise: Diamond defects, treatments and color origin; geochemistry of minerals; gemology and mineralogy of colored stones
Selected Published Research:
- Evaluating the defects in CVD diamonds: A statistical approach to spectroscopy (2022)
- Diamond Spectroscopy, Defect Centers, Color, and Treatments | Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry , GeoScience World (2022)
- Visible Absorption Spectra of Colored Diamonds, Gems & Gemology (2015)
- The “Type” Classification System of Diamonds and its Importance in Gemology, Gems & Gemology (2009)
- Occurrence of the Si–V defect center in natural colorless gem diamonds, Diamond and Related Materials (2008)
- Fluid–metasedimentary rock interactions in subduction-zone mélange: implications for the chemical composition of arc magmas, Geology (2004)
- Slab-derived fluids and quartz-vein formation in an accretionary prism, Otago Schist, New Zealand, Geology (2002)
Education:
- Bachelor of Science in Geology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1998
- Ph.D. in Geology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2004
- Graduate Gemologist, GIA, Carlsbad, California, 2005
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