IDE and Alrosa Agree to Strengthen Cooperation
Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) President Yoram Dvash led a delegation of the heads of 28 leading Israeli diamond companies to Moscow last week to meet with senior ALROSA officials. Accompanying the delegation was Israel...
GIA spots a CVD layer grown on a natural diamond
A 0.64-carat fancy diamond was found to have a synthetic coating
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has announced that in its recent examination of a 0.64-carat fancy greyish-greenish-blue cushion modified brilliant-cut diamond, it found...
DiaCam360, a Machine for Automated Identification of Diamond Colour & Clarity to be Introduced...
DiaCam360 announced recently that it has initiated a new venture that will lead to “the automated identification of a diamond’s colour and clarity”. The system is based on a “proprietary database of hundreds of...
Sarine Introduces 3D-Origin™ Accurate Model as Optional Add-on to Sarine Diamond Journey™
Sarine Technologies Ltd has launched a new innovative sales tool for retailers – the 3D-Origin™, described as “a 3D-printed accurate model of the rough diamond from which the Sarine Journey™-verified polished diamond was derived”.
Created...
Rap Net to vote on providing lab-grown diamond services
RapNet, the world’s largest diamond trading network with daily listings of over $7.4 billion, will be voting on whether it should provide diamond listing and pricing services for synthetic diamonds.
Voting will be limited to...
Over one third of women pick their own engagement rings
It’s always been thought to be the tradition that the proposer chooses the engagement ring; however research from Birmingham based Aspire Diamonds has found that over one third of women are picking their own...
130 carat gem quality diamond recovered at Lulo
ASX-listed Lucapa Diamond Company and its partners have announced the recovery of a 130-carat gem quality diamond from the Lulo diamond project in Angola.
The 130-carat diamond is the 13th +100 carat diamond recovered to...
Gujarat diamond industry facing large-scale job issues
Sluggish global demand, coupled with the bankruptcy of a few firms, have resulted in large-scale unemployment in the diamond industry in Gujarat, especially in and around Surat
Sluggish global demand, coupled with the bankruptcy of...
Namibia’s CPB awards disputed US$21-million diamond deal to controversial firm
The leading daily The Namibian reported that Namibia's Central Procurement Board (CPB) has awarded an N$300 million contract to Gem Diamonds Namibia to evaluate Namdeb's diamonds over the next five years.
While it is...
ALROSA’s April sales of rough and polished diamonds reached almost $319 million
ALROSA, the world's largest diamond miner, announces diamond sales for April and four months of 2019.
April sales of rough and polished diamonds reached $318.7 million. Rough diamond sales amounted to $315.8 million, while those...
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