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The 77 th Primetime Emmy Awards saw celebrities light up the red carpet with diamonds, sapphires, emeralds and onyx gemstones in all shapes and sizes. The stars pulled out all the stops at the Los ...
Vast Resources will sell diamonds later this month from parcels the Zimbabwean government held for 15 years and finally released in April. Approximately 135,000 carats of gem-quality stones seized in ...
Namib Desert Diamonds (Namdia) has filed a lawsuit in the Namibian high court accusing security provider G4S of failing to prevent the January robbery that saw millions in diamonds stolen and a worker ...
Independent US jewelers are helping keep the diamond industry on track amid considerable challenges for the market. Major retailers are buying less than in past years and shifting more to lab-grown.
The American Gem Society (AGS) has granted Al Gilbertson its Robert M. Shipley award for his contributions to gemological research, education and service to the organization. Gilbertson graduated as a ...
US consumer spending for the holiday season will see its slowest rise in six years as shoppers lay out more on necessities than on nonessentials like jewelry, a Bain & Company survey has found. Sales ...
The August issue of the Rapaport Research Report outlines the trade’s options, from expediting exports to seeking out low-duty routes. The diamond and jewelry trade is seeking solutions to US tariffs ...
Burgundy Diamonds believes it will continue to produce rough from a portion of its Ekati mine for another 15 years, nearly a decade longer than the two other deposits in Canada’s Northwest Territories ...
The owner of the Mothae diamond mine in Lesotho has placed 400 employees on forced leave, slashing their pay by 50%, according to a local union. The management attributed the temporary layoffs to the ...
The jewelry segment continued its positive momentum, heading for a strong result for the year, even as the overall personal luxury goods market lags. There are three potential scenarios for the market ...
The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) is launching a new marketing campaign for natural diamonds that centers around a gumball machine full of synthetics that can be “won” for five euros, in an ...
Since launching a flagship store in Tribeca in 2018, FoundRae founder and creative director Beth Hutchens has added a second location in central Manhattan. The new boutique’s vibrant red interior ...