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Certificates, Reports & Verification

What a laboratory report states, what it cannot, how to verify one online, and how to recognise a forged certificate.

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Why Laboratory Certification Matters for Rudraksha and Gemstones

What a lab report actually adds — a documented, matchable, verifiable record of identity — and why a seller's certificate adds far less than it seems.

6 min
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Why a Test Report Does Not Include a Valuation

Identification and valuation are different jobs with different incentives. Why a lab that prints prices is not testing, and how to get a valuation.

3 min
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What a Laboratory Report Cannot Tell You

A report is an opinion on identity based on stated tests. What it leaves out — value, effect, future condition — and why those limits are a good sign.

4 min
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Questions to Ask Any Testing Laboratory Before Trusting Its Report

The questions about equipment, methods, independence, verification and limits that separate a testing laboratory from a certificate printer.

3 min
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Non-Destructive Testing: Why Nothing Is Scratched, Heated or Cut

Every routine gem and Rudraksha test works by light, weight or X-ray and leaves the article unchanged. What non-destructive means and the rare exceptions.

3 min
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Matching the Report to the Article in Your Hand

A report describes one specific article. How to confirm your bead or stone is the one on the card — weight, dimensions, photograph — and normal tolerances.

3 min
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Inside the Lab: The Instruments and What Each One Is For

A tour of the testing bench — balance, microscope, refractometer, polariscope, dichroscope, spectroscope, UV and X-ray — and what each answers.

4 min
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How Online Report Verification Works — and Why the PIN Matters

What happens when you scan a report card's QR code, why the PIN matters, what the online record shows, and what to do if it does not match.

3 min
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How to Spot a Fake or Altered Certificate

How certificates are forged, altered and transferred — and the checks that expose each: register verification, matching, and the details forgers miss.

4 min
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Anatomy of a Test Report: What Every Line on the Card Means

Every line on a lab report card explained — report number, PIN, X-ray compartment count, RI, SG and conclusion — so you can read, check and match it.

4 min
Not sure what you own?

The laboratory examines Rudraksha, gemstones, malas, bracelets and crystals and issues a numbered, PIN-protected report you can verify online at any time.