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The WTOCD (Antwerp Scientific Research Center for Diamonds – Wetenschappelijk en Technisch Onderzoeks Centrum voor Diamant) has developed an automatic melee screening device in collaboration with HRD Antwerp,
The United Arab Emirates has been confirmed as the next chair of the Kimberley Process (KP), assuming the role in 2016, following a vote of members.
The Gemological Institute of America lab will soon have the ability to mass-screen smaller stones to check for synthetics, chief laboratory and research officer Thomas M. Moses said in a speech delivered Aug. 31 at the Israel Diamond Exchange.
Speaking at the International Diamond Week in Ramat Gan, Tom Moses, GIA executive vice president, announced that the lab is planning to open a diamond synthesis facility in New Jersey.
The Diamond Development Initiative (DDI) is to hold a conference on the subject of the importance of formalizing artisanal miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Diamond Services developed a new mini Raman spectrometer that it says is able to detect synthetic and color-treated diamonds and gemstones falsely presented as diamonds. The device will be unveiled at the Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair in September.
Earlier this summer, World Federation of Diamond Bourses President Ernie Blom announced that his organization, along with the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) and the International Diamond Manufacturers Association, had drafted and signed a new policy on an issue that’s top-of-mind for retailers today: diamond color grading.
A friend once asked the head of a lab notorious for overgrading how he lived with himself. Simple, the man replied. If I were supplying such a horrible product, why do I have so many customers?
At the recent President’s Meeting, World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) president Ernest Blom said something noteworthy: “If customers are checking where their fruit and vegetables and tea and coffee were grown, be sure [they will do the same] when they go to buy an item of diamond jewelry that costs thousands of times more.”
The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) is, to say the least, in flux. Its longtime CEO left in November 2013, and his replacement lasted barely a year.
Policy sets guidelines to tolerance levels on grading. Members of the diamond trade may face arbitration for dealing in diamonds with a color grade
The previously unknown treatment that temporarily boosts a diamond’s color has also been discovered on diamonds submitted to the Antwerp branch of the International Gemological Institute,