India trade looks to ease banks’ concerns
India’s diamond industry is working to produce guidelines for banks to reduce their risks when lending to the trade.
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De Beers’ ASM Diamond initiative critical step for industry
By far the most important announcement this week was that of the De Beers Group that it is preparing to pilot a program called GemFair
Lab finds 3ct. synthetic diamond with fake report
A grading laboratory in China has discovered a synthetic diamond masquerading as a natural stone, complete with a forged inscription and a falsified report.
How Compliance became the ‘fifth C’ in diamonds
The diamond industry has for decades, done business with a truly international pipeline — diamonds are mined in some continents
The price of lab-created diamonds continue to fall
The discount of gem-quality lab-created diamonds, manufactured for use in jewelry, relative to natural diamonds has doubled from 11-20% a year ago to 28-40% today, according to a survey of prices.
A new “Do Good” story from the Diamond Empowerment Fund
Press release – Botswana’s Okavango Diamond Company latest company to be highlighted to millennial consumers.
Chopard makes ethical-gold commitment
Chopard has vowed to use 100% ethically sourced gold in all of its jewelry and watch collections by the end of July, the company said last week.
ALROSA introduced a commercial detector to check diamonds for genuineness
ALROSA Group, the world’s top diamond producer, demonstrated the first domestically-made commercial device that permits to identify diamonds of natural and synthetic origin – ALROSA Diamond Inspector.
ALROSA introduces new version of ALROSA ALLIANCE Guidelines
Press Release – ALROSA has approved the updated version of ALROSA ALLIANCE Guidelines on Responsible Business Practices developed to enhance confidence between the Company and its clients – ALROSA ALLIANCE members
DRC: 3% of artisanal diamond diggers are women
Diamonds and gold are mined in some of the most remote areas of the world, some of which are completely off the radar.
GIA to demonstrate iD100 gem testing device at Baselworld Show
The GIA will offer demonstrations of the GIA iD100TM gem testing device that distinguishes natural diamonds from synthetics and diamond stimulants at the Baselworld show in Switzerland from March 22-27.
Diamond producers can’t rest on their laurels in the face of synthetics threat
In January 2017 I asked the then De Beers head of media relations Lynette Gould whether natural diamond producers were worried that they might lose some market share to lab-grown stones.