DEF to give $240K to educational institutions
New York – The Diamond Empowerment Fund announced Tuesday that its board of directors approved the granting of funds to its three existing beneficiaries
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Gem-A to unveil new CSR course at London show
The Gemmological Association of Great Britain (Gem-A) is inviting attendees of this year’s International Jewellery London (IJL) to an event to celebrate the upcoming launch of its new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) course for jewelry professionals.
The DDI development diamonds
The diamond industry needs to support programs to uplift its vast artisanal mining sector.
TYPE II criminals: turning ‘50 shades of brown’ into ‘virgin whites’
The greatest menace in the diamond industry – today and tomorrow – comes from the nasty breed of people defined as Type II Criminals, who abuse gem-quality synthetic or natural diamonds to defraud.
Dubai under fire
In the past decade, the growth of Dubai as a diamond center has been phenomenal—more than $40 billion in diamonds are now traded in the most populated city in the United Arab Emirates, up from $5 billion less than a decade ago.
New World Diamond Council president: I’m “an angry young man”
Edward Asscher, the fifth-generation diamantaire who heads the Royal Asscher Co. in the Netherlands, was elected president of the World Diamond Council last month.
A warning & appeal from ‘the digging fields’ of the diamond industry
In a keynote address to the Antwerp World Diamond Congress today, Rory More O’Ferrall, one of the diamond industry’s most respected leaders and honorary vice chairman of the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), said that dealing with the plight of artisanal diamond diggers has become an urgent moral and business imperative.
DDI’s O’Ferrall calls on industry to aid artisanal miners
Diamond companies have a moral imperative to contribute to improving the working and living conditions of artisanal diamond miners surviving on a few dollars a day
Diamonds Do Good?
There has been a lot of talk about the need for the diamond industry—particularly big miners and retailers—to act collectively to promote diamonds generically, like De Beers used to.
The conflict minerals rule may be unconstitutional, but it’s going ahead anyway
Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that one section of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s conflict mineral rule, its response to Sect. 1502 of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, was unconstitutional.
Are synthetic diamonds a threat to the natural industry?
Last week, Israel Diamond Exchange unveiled a new slogan: “Natural is real.” The slogan is a clever play on the word Israel, and a less-clever poke in the eye to lab-grown diamond producers, who do, in fact, produce real diamonds.
CIBJO holds sustainable development summit at UN in New York
Industry leaders joined senior United Nations officials and representatives of UN-affiliated organizations for a special conference organized by CIBJO (World Jewellery Confederation), to discuss the commitment of the jewelry and gemstone business to facilitate sustainable development in the countries and regions in which it is active at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The […]