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The Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF) honored Jane Seymour and her Open Hearts Foundation together with David Rocha and Jewelers for Children for their commitment to giving back to the community.
EGL International, the lab that has become a flash point in the dispute over diamond grading, is shutting down, says Menahem Sevdermish, the EGL network’s new global manager.
As the Diamonds Do Good website goes online, Rubel & Ménasché wanted to find out about how the project came about and what it’s aims are. We met with Nancy Orem Lyman, the Executive Director of DEF.
New York, Press release – The Diamond Empowerment Fund (D.E.F) launched today, the first of december, its new consumer-facing global website, diamondsdogood.com.
OECD Guidelines: A replacement of the Kimberley Process? was the original name given by the organizers for Panel II at the Second Zimbabwe Diamond Conference that took place in Harare in early November.
The World Federation of Diamond Bourses president Ernie Blom today put out a much-welcome open letter on diamond grading, which makes a firm statement about what constitutes acceptable behavior as far as choosing grading labs:
A few months back EGL International sent out a release with the following, quite controversial assertion: “At this point in time there is no single, international standard for diamond grading that has national or international status or acceptance.”
In a thunderous new editorial, Rapaport Group chairman Martin Rapaport called the overgrading of diamonds by certain labs a “significant threat”
One of the biggest deficiencies in our industry is the lack of authoritative stats. So I thought I would kick off a series of posts trying to find out the latest accurate information on our industry.
Gemological Institute of America’s lab has begun an investigation and suspended its diamond sealing service after it spotted a sealed diamond the report of which didn’t match the stone.
Ever since the industry divided over Marange’s readmittance to the Kimberley Process in 2010 and 2011—and has stayed split since then—it’s become standard to take shots at the World Diamond Council.
Thanks to a grant from Signet Jewelers, the Diamond Development Initiative will run the technical support function of the Kimberley Process.