Laurent Cartier had the opportunity of visiting Jewelmer pearl farms near Palawan Island in the Philippines and observing the different culturing techniques required to harvest golden South Sea pearls. Pearl farmers have targeted traits and oysters that can enable them to focus on specific nacre colours and thus pearl colours. In the past few decades, South Sea cultured pearls have become some of the most desired and expensive cultured pearls in the market.Īt present, golden South Sea cultured pearls are harvested mainly in Burma, the Philippines and Indonesia. Interestingly, 2016 marked the 60th anniversary of the first harvest of South Sea cultured pearls at the Kuri Bay farm (Australia), established by Tokuichi Kuribayashi of Nippo Pearls in 1954 (Müller, 1997). Such pearls are cultured mainly in Australia, Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia and the Philippines. ![]() The South Sea pearl oyster Pinctada maxima is known to produce white, cream and golden pearls. Cartier, first published in Facette 23 (February 2017) Research on Golden Cultured Pearls Figure 1: Untreated golden South Sea cultured pearls from the Jewelmer pearl farms in Palawan (Philippines).
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