Sotheby’s High Jewelry Geneva Auction Featuring Fancy Color Diamonds and No Heat Kashmir Sapphires...
The November Sotheby's High Jewelry Geneva auction put the spotlight squarely on a 10-carat Fancy Vivid Pink cushion-shape diamond known as the Glowing Rose,...
Diamonds, Gold, and Platinum: South Africa Is Still a Mining Giant—But the Rankings Have...
Mention South African mining and most of us immediately think of diamonds and gold. The country that gave us the Kimberley Mine, the Cullinan...
GIA Announces a Tariff Work-Around: Overseas Labs Accepting Larger Diamonds for Grading
In response to logistics challenges related to recently announced tariffs affecting global shipments of gemstones, GIA (Gemological Institute of America) will temporarily expand services...
De Beers: How Did We Go From $39 Billion to $1 Billion? The Answer...
For the past two+ years, the headlines have come quickly.
A $39 billion takeover bid for Anglo American by BHP. Anglo American puts De Beers...
A Different Kind of Brilliance: Argyle Names 2026 “Rare Gem”
Argyle Pink Diamonds™ and West Australian Ballet are delighted to announceIsabella Triscari as their Rare Gem for 2026.The second year of a unique program, the Rare Gems partnership...
Diamonds, Debt, and a New Deal on the Pitch
Zimbabwe’s Manica Diamonds Football Club has changed hands — and with it, perhaps, its fortunes.
According to a recent report in The Herald, the struggling...
After Las Vegas: The Natural vs. Lab-Grown Debate Isn’t Going Away — But It...
For years, the jewelry industry has wrestled with whether synthetic/"laboratory-grown" diamonds would replace natural diamonds, stand alongside them, or eventually create their own category.
If...
Technology-Grade Grown Diamond – TGGD
Lab-Grown Diamonds Move Beyond Jewelry—Into Technology
Bench jewelers have known this for years: diamond handles heat. It’s one of the few gemstones you can often...
No Budget for a Diamond? — You can Dig...
Murfreesboro, Arkansas is the home of Crater of Diamonds State Park. Here you can pay a nominal fee, hike out into the newly plowed...
Are Diamonds Even a Luxury Anymore? De Beers CEO Al Cook talks to the...
"The brand made mined diamonds synonymous with love and devotion. Now the CEO decries what he calls a 'huge con' in lab-grown stones masquerading...
Rob Bates Launches The Jewelry Wire, Bringing Daily Industry Coverage to Substack
Veteran jewelry industry journalist Rob Bates has (mostly) stepped away from his long-standing role at JCK Magazine to launch an independent publication, The Jewelry...
Scott Sucher and the Hortensia: French Crown Jewel Replica Cut in “Grown Diamond”
For centuries, the famous Hortensia Diamond has existed as an historical object behind museum glass at the Louvre — a softly colored pink diamond...
