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Since October 2014, the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI)* has acted as the focal point for Technical Assistance within the Kimberley Process’ Administrative Support Mechanism, created and hosted by the World Diamond Council.
Solomon Fiona (Fiona Solomon), Director of Standards Development at the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) gave an exclusive interview to Rough&Polished and told about the main activities of this organization and its achievements in the past year and prospects for 2015.
Six months have passed since De Beers unveiled a revolutionary device for detection of small synthetic diamonds – the Automated Melee Screening Device (AMS).
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.