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While the majority of diamonds appear colorless or have only a slight yellow tint, the world’s most famous diamonds — among them, the blue Hope diamond and the Moussaieff red diamond — are colored, Charlotte McLeod says in an article posted on resourceinvestingnews.com.
The recent proposals made by the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) for the 2013-2014 Union Budget are a step in the right direction but are not far-reaching enough.
Polished diamond prices softened in January after their moderate increase in December. Prices declined 1.1 percent following lukewarm demand for diamond jewelry in the holiday season and expectations that retailers will restock slowly.
The recent improvement in both rough diamond trading and prices in the secondary market should raise some eyebrows. While it has helped inject additional confidence into the market, it remains unclear whether this momentum will be sustained.
What is the chance for an American consumer to buy these days a piece of diamond jewelry made of a rough diamond found, for instance, in the Soviet Union in 1974? Or in Angola in 1993? Or in Côte d’Ivoire in 1995? According to Chaim Even-Zohar, the “home mine” owned by the U.S. population has […]
Prices stable as premiums improve De Beers January sight had an estimated value of $550 million as the company continued to limit supply. Prices were basically stable with slight changes made to assortments.
Various factors drive rough diamond buying. An obvious one is expectations of polished diamond sales.
This is not the column I’d prepared for today. That one was written, proofed, readied, and even had a visual prepared to illustrate a point – and then I abandoned it.
Demand for rough diamonds is increasing. Rough traders are competing for goods, which has driven up prices of DTC goods over the past few days.
Harry Winston Diamond Corp’s sale of its luxury brand to Swatch Group is the most significant step yet taken by this rapidly evolving company. Essentially, the deal marks the end of Harry Winston the mining company, as the brand returns to its luxury roots, and the mining business is renamed Dominion Diamond Corporation.
Rough diamond prices increased by more than 20 percent each year since the post crisis era as producers struggled to keep pace with demand.