Diamond Empowerment Fund hosts record 2018 Diamonds Do Good Awards
Press release – Raises funds to help student scholars from diamond communities.
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WDC opens up system of warranties reforms
The World Diamond Council (WDC) has invited the public to review reforms to its System of Warranties (SoW), a method the organization established to keep the supply chain conflict-free.
Signet Jewelers joins pilot of De Beers Tracr blockchain platform
Signet Jewelers, the world’s largest retailer of diamond jewelry, will become the first chain to join De Beers’ pilot of an end-to-end diamond blockchain program called Tracr, the miner announced.
How De Beers sees its new synthetics business
CEO Bruce Cleaver on why the company’s lab-grown diamonds won’t get a color or clarity grade, and why customers would tolerate losing them in the sea.
DPA on De Beers newst development : Lightbox
The Board of the Diamond Producers Association acknowledges the decision of De Beers Group to enter the synthetic diamond market through its subsidiary Element Six.
Lightbox Jewelry : new fashion jewelry brand with laboratory-grown diamonds by De Beers Group to
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
9ct. synthetic sets ‘world record’
WD Lab Grown Diamonds has created what it claims to be the world’s largest known synthetic diamond made using chemical vapor deposition (CVD).
RJC makes new appointments to leadership
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.
Russia creates a tracing system for polished diamonds and jewellery
Nowadays, we see that the responsible supplies and tracing the provenance of rough diamonds are thriving and widely discussed in the industry.
“We believe that the Blockchain platform has great transformative potential for the industry” Tom Montgomery, De Beers
On April 11th, De Beers representatives came to Paris to present their Blockchain pilot project called Tracr to the French industry.
De Beers’ plan to use modern technology on an old problem
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.
De Beers Group successfully tracks first diamonds from mine to retail on industry blockchain
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