Los Angeles, Calif. – September 9, 2021 – The Pearl Source, the leading online pearl jewelry retailer in the United States and member of Jewelers of America, today announced it is using a new report from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) to provide its customers with dossier-style classification reports of its cultured pearl jewelry. […]

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CARLSBAD, Calif. – April 2019 – To comply with applicable laws, regulations and best practices, GIA is enhancing its ‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC) program. This program supports the high standards of integrity that align with GIA’s mission of ensuring the public trust in gems and jewelry. All new and current laboratory clients will be required to […]

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Botswana’s state-run Okavango Diamond Company unveiled on Wednesday what is believed to be the largest blue diamond ever discovered in the southern African country, which is one of the world’s top producers. The 20.46-carat, oval-shaped fancy precious rock has been named “The Okavango Blue” in honour of the Okavango Delta, the country’s wildlife-rich world heritage […]

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GIA (The Gemological Institute of America) announced it will introduce the GIA Diamond Origin Report service which will confirm the country of origin of polished diamonds. To be eligible for this new service, the original rough diamonds and resulting polished diamonds must be submitted to GIA for analysis so that they can be matched to […]

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An industry initiative is known as the ASSURE Program, run jointly by the Diamond Producers Association (DPA) and Signet Jewelers to develop a universal standard to test the performance of diamond verification instruments in a consistent manner, has published the results of its testing online at the ASSURE Directory. A diamond verification instrument is any […]

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The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) held the presentation ceremony of its Artisan Jewellery Design Awards 2019 jewellery design competition on Wednesday in Mumbai. The event also featured the official release of the GJEPC-sponsored AATMAN – Inspirations 2020 jewellery trend forecasting book put together by luxury industry analysts from The Futurist’s group led […]

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Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has now expanded its bouquet of services under the Colored Stone Identification & Origin Report to now include alexandrite. It has thus added to the service which currently has ruby, sapphire, emerald, Paraíba tourmaline and red spinel under its purview. “Offering an alexandrite Identification & Origin Report continues GIA’s mission […]

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Craig Selimotic Danforth will join the leadership team of Jewelers Mutual Insurance Group on Monday, January 28, assuming the role of Vice President of Client Solutions. Danforth has 25-plus years of sales, business development, marketing, training, and finance experience, most recently demonstrated as Director, Global Business and Development at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). […]

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Luxury jewellery house Graff is offering a vast selection of polished diamonds cut from the legendary 1,109-carat Lesedi La Rona – the largest rough diamond found in more than a century. According to Graff, its team of gemmologists and master craftsmen took more than a year to analyse, cut and polish more than 60 Lesedi […]

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GIA (Gemological Institute of America) announced today that Alrosa, the world’s largest producer of rough diamonds, is piloting in the Institute’s M2M program. “The M2M program is a way to share with the consumer the story of our diamonds,” said Sergey Ivanov, CEO of ALROSA. “The creation of tracing systems is an important step in […]

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