The R&M “Lettre”

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.  

Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd., the world’s largest publicly traded jeweler, is checking out  the purchase of stakes in diamond mines

Q&A with Marcel Pruwer, President of the Antwerp Diamond Bourse.

Millennial American consumers – particularly those between ages 25 and 34 – spent more on jewelry than any other age group in 2013

Believe it or not, the fourth quarter is traditionally a slow period for the diamond trade. That may be a stark realization for some, especially on the eve of Thanksgiving weekend that signals the start of the Christmas shopping season.

We got rid of the DeBeers monopoly…but traded it for another…

On Tuesday, Oxford Dictionaries named its 2014 “Word of the Year,” the orderly amassing of letters that, according to the professional wordsmiths at Oxford, has “attracted a great deal of interest during the year to date.”

Press Release : Open letter from Ernie Bmlom, President of the WFDB, regarding over grading certification.

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.”

On the Indian diamond Industry’s persistent request, the Government of India is planning to set up a special zone with tax benefits for diamond import and a trading hub.