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Press release – GemFair, a pilot project developed by De Beers Group, that aims to create a secure and transparent route to market for ethically sourced artisanal and small-scale mined (ASM) diamonds, is scaling up its operations in Sierra Leone
RJC has launched its new Code of Practices (COP).The COP defines responsible, social and environmental business practices for companies in the jewelry supply chain and commits members to adhere to a robust set of comprehensive auditable standards.
Press release – WDC is traveling to Paris, and in its spotlight the OECD’s Responsible Mineral Supply Chain Forum and Kimberley Process reform.
GIA is known for many things: diamond grading, diamond education, and diamond devices. But what many don’t know is that it also grows diamonds.
Have you read the cover story of IDEX Magazine’s March edition? If not, please take a few minutes this weekend to read it.
In her address to the 6th Forum of the Africa-Belgium Business Week, held in the Belgian town of Genval, Marie-Chantal Kaninda, Executive Director of World Diamond Council (WDC), expressed the WDC’s optimism that Central African Republic (CAR) will soon be able to resume the unrestricted export of rough diamonds, supported by the Kimberley Process Certification […]
Initiatives in Art and Culture (IAC) will present Feriel Zerouki with its award for leadership in responsible practice in jewelry.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has enacted a resolution calling for reforms to increase the effectiveness of the Kimberley Process (KP), the World Diamond Council (WDC) said.
During the week of 4th March, the cover story in the March issue of IDEX Magazine discussed, among other things, the danger that undisclosed, melee-sized synthetic diamonds pose to the diamond supply pipeline.
World Diamond Council President Stephane Fischler addressed a special meeting of the United Nations’ General Assembly’s 73rd Session in New York regarding the role of diamonds in fueling conflict.
De Beers claims it doesn’t need to disclose treatments to its lab-grown diamonds, placing itself at odds with many synthetics traders pushing for full transparency in the sector.
The natural-diamond trade needs to be more aggressive in the lab-grown debate.