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Antwerp, Belgium – The heads of four of the jewelry and diamond industry’s leading international representative organizations have established a joint consultative committee called “The Presidents Forum.”
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
The De Beers June sight closed with an estimated value of $640 million as demand for rough diamonds remained firm.
On the sidelines of the JCK Las Vegas show, a deeper conversation was taking place than the usual negotiation for goods. Numerous educational seminars and keynote addresses urged businesses to move beyond simple product and price transactions and think long-term to ensure industry growth.
In what is shaping up to be one of most the amazing diamond finds in recent times, a 122.52 ct. blue diamond — the size of a walnut — has been discovered at the Cullinan mine in South Africa, said mine owner Petra Diamonds.
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.
Las Vegas – The Diamond Empowerment Fund’s mission of providing higher education to children in Africa’s diamond-producing countries got a boost in Las Vegas, with the organization’s annual gala raising more than $1 million.
The industry must meet consumer confidence challenges and promote itself more in order to keep diamond demand strong, Philippe Mellier, CEO of the De Beers Group, told a packed Mandalay Bay Surf Room in his presentation “Perspectives on the Diamond Industry” on May 30.
The first four months of 2014 saw the seasonal growth in rough diamond prices estimated by the industry players as 5 to 10 percent.
The other day, I was wondering about high-end jewelry – how to sum up what differentiates high-end jewelry from jewelry and whom does it appeal to? Curious to see what I would find, I typed the phrase in Google Images, and was pleasantly surprised to see that diamonds hold a prominent place…
Forevermark shows that De Beers is a “new kind of leader” for the diamond industry, CEO Philippe Mellier told a packed presentation at the Four Seasons Hotel on May 29.
Manufacturers and distributors of High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) processed natural diamonds are claiming an opportunity for their small, specialized niche. Not to be confused with treatments or synthetics, advocates of HPHT-processed natural diamonds are working to change the perception of their product.