akoya oyster populations should return to health, probably by the year 2002. Thinning may solve the problem, Müller says, because lower shell density usually results in a higher quality pearl.

And we sell over 5,000 oysters on the half shell every day.” After reaching out to a pearl dealer, the Post found Antosh’s surprise ingredient to be worth between $2,000 and $4,000 dollars.

Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

What is a natural pearl, and how are they formed? Natural pearls form when some kind of irritant, usually a small organism, makes its way into the shell of a mollusk like an oyster or a mussel.

The oyster or mussel slowly secretes layers of aragonite and conchiolin, materials that also make up its shell. This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the ...

A lucky woman uncovered a pearl while dining on oysters with her daughter in small-town North Carolina. Freda Bryant made the fortunate discovery at Full Moon Oyster Bar in Morrisville ...