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Press release – De Beers Group today announced the launch of a new company called Lightbox Jewelry that will begin marketing a new brand of laboratory-grown diamond jewelry under the Lightbox name in September
WD Lab Grown Diamonds has created what it claims to be the world’s largest known synthetic diamond made using chemical vapor deposition (CVD).
Tiffany & Co. posted strong sales for the first quarter (ended April 30), with results so good even executives said they were surprised.
The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) has announced a series of senior appointments to its Board of Directors as the organization continues to strengthen its position as the jewelry industry’s foremost standards setting and certification body.
Meghan Markle is clearly a fan of simplicity. The new Duchess of Sussex wore a Givenchy wedding gown free of flash and embellishment on her wedding day (the internet will forever be divided on its success)
Nowadays, we see that the responsible supplies and tracing the provenance of rough diamonds are thriving and widely discussed in the industry.
On April 11th, De Beers representatives came to Paris to present their Blockchain pilot project called Tracr to the French industry.
ALROSA may acquire Russia’s major diamond polisher, Kristall, in a bid to support the country’s gem-cutting industry and help create a stronger competitor to global group De Beers.
In the early 2000s, as the Kimberley Process was being forged, an NGO activist told me the best answer to post-war Sierra Leone’s diamond woes just might be De Beers reopening a buying office there. He fretted the company would never do that, as it feared the public relations repercussions.
A diamond passed down through generations of European royals now belongs to one anonymous buyer who paid $6.7 million for it.
Global consumer demand for diamond jewelry hit a new all-time high in 2017, climbing to $82 billion, a 2% increase on the previous year, according to industry insight data published by De Beers Group.
Press release – De Beers Group today announced that it has successfully tracked 100 high-value diamonds along the value chain during the pilot of its industry blockchain platform