An curved arrow pointing right. At Pearl Factory, customers can handpick their very own oyster. Once they've opened the oyster, they can create jewelry with their pearl. More from Entertainment At ...

A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive ... in mussels for the same reason that saltwater pearls occur in oysters. Foreign material, usually a sharp object or parasite, enters ...

The dearth of akoyas has helped open the door for other kinds ... the disease seems to ferret them out. Pearl farmers haul out their oyster cages in Ago Bay. Government and company researchers ...

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 ...