ALROSA revegetates 40.6 hectares of forest
PJSC Severalmaz, a subsidiary of ALROSA Group, has planted over 80 thousand pine tree saplings at the Soyansky State Bio-Reserve.
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Richemont’s jewelry sales sparkle
Jewelry sales at Richemont — the owner of Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels — increased 11% in the five months ending August 31, the luxury retailer reported Monday.
The US jewelry market is much smaller than you think
Anyone who has ever done a back-of-the-envelope calculation of the US fine jewelry market in the past few years arrived at figures that were far below the official numbers published by the US government.
First Diamond Empowerment Fund scholarship announced pays tribute to Nelson Mandela centenary birthday
Press release – The Diamond Empowerment Fund (D.E.F) has partnered with the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS) to establish the first in a series of Diamond Empowerment Fund Scholarships.
In the first half of 2018, consumers searched for …
In April, I relayed the results of GemFind’s first annual report aggregating data from the jewelers’ websites that the company manages; the report told us what diamonds consumers were clicking on the most—though not necessarily buying—when browsing jewelry online.
Signet open to lab-grown diamonds
Signet Jewelers will consider selling lab-grown diamonds at its stores if consumer demand justifies such a move, CEO Gina Drosos said in a conference call with analysts.
De Beers rough diamond sales Cycle 7, 2018
US$505 million (provisional).
ALROSA sells rough and polished diamonds worth USD 294.9 million in August
ALROSA, the world’s largest diamond producer, announces diamond sales results for August and eight months of 2018.
Melee parcel contains just one natural stone
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) found just one natural diamond in a melee parcel containing more than 1,000 undisclosed synthetic stones, according to a recent lab note.
India to surpass US in 2018 jewelry sales
India will overtake the US as the second-largest market for fine jewelry, behind China, by the end of 2018, according to researchers at Euromonitor International.
Fine jewelry on show #2: Van Cleef & Arpels, Bvlgari, Boucheron, Chaumet, Piaget et Chopard
We are reaching the end of the holidays and to ease us back into work, whilst allowing ourselves to linger a little in the summer, let’s take a look at the high end jewelry collections presented alongside Fashion Week and the Parisian high fashion collections at the start of July.
Screen saviors? A roundup of tools to test your diamonds
At a meeting on undisclosed synthetics in 2016, GIA chief laboratory and research officer Tom Moses lamented that people knew exactly what they wanted in a lab-grown diamond detector. “A black box,” he moaned. “For about 100 bucks. Sits on your counter.”