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# Colored stone report

Also called colored stone identification report, gemstone report

A colored stone report is a lab document that identifies a gem and states any treatment the lab detects. GIA's identification report describes the color but does not grade it.

## In more detail

GIA's identification reports list the item's weight, measurements, shape, color and cutting style. Then they state what the material is, with laboratory-grown material labeled as such. Comments follow. Some colored stone reports also give a geographic origin.

## Related terms

- [Origin report](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/origin-report): An origin report gives a lab's opinion on the country or region where a gem was mined.
- [Treatment](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/treatment): A treatment is any process, other than cutting and polishing, that changes a gem's color or apparent clarity. Anyone who sells a treated gem must disclose the treatment.
- [Synthetic gemstone](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/synthetic-gemstone): A synthetic gemstone is made in a laboratory and has essentially the same chemistry and properties as the natural gem. A synthetic ruby is ruby, made by people.
- [Simulant](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/simulant): A simulant is a material that looks like a gem but has a different chemistry, structure and properties. Cubic zirconia, moissanite and glass are diamond simulants.
- [Disclosure](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/disclosure): Disclosure is telling the buyer, before the sale, that a gem is treated, laboratory-grown or an imitation.

## Learn more

- [Moissanite certificates vs diamond grading reports](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/diamond-vs-moissanite/moissanite-certificate-vs-diamond-report)
- [What a diamond grading report is, and what it isn't](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/grading-reports/what-is-a-diamond-grading-report)

[All 328 terms](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary)