Angola Flooding Halts Mineral Export Routes
Angola Flooding Halts Copper Route—Copper-Related Gem Materials in Play
Severe flooding in western Angola has shut down rail traffic along the Lobito Corridor, a critical...
Celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s 100th Birthday: T&C has the Jewels Covered
The Jewels, The Tributes, The Legacy
April 21, 2026, marked what would have been the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the most...
GIA Opens Taiwan: Only school offering the GIA Graduate Gemologist program in Chinese
CARLSBAD, Calif. – March 31, 2026 – The new GIA School of Gemology and Jewelry Arts campus in Taiwan officially opened on March 29, 2026. The...
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...
Los Angeles Dodgers Win Back-to-Back World Series Titles—And the Diamond- and Sapphire-Set Championship Ring...
The Los Angeles Dodgers—a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles, California—celebrate their 2025 World Series victory with a ring by Jostens featuring...
Amberif 2026 | Gdańsk Reinforces its Status as the Amber Capital of the World
March 26–28, 2026Michal Kosior – Amber Experts Laboratory
On the ground in Gdańsk: a first-hand report fromMichal Kosior - Amber Experts Laboratory
For more than three decades,...
AI Steps Into the Spotlight—As SIG Launches a New Colored Stone Lab Model
A new gemological laboratory is entering the market—but this time, the headline isn’t just who is behind it.It’s how they’re choosing to present it.
Swiss...
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...
Naming the Stone: A Closer Look at France’s Gemstone Regulations at Salon Minéral Expo...
Set for April 10–12 at Espace Charenton, Minéral Expo Paris will bring together nearly 200 exhibitors from more than 20 countries, filling 3,000 square...
World Diamond Day Debuts—But This Time, There’s No Single Voice Leading the Charge
World Diamond Day made its debut on April 8, 2026, with a simple but ambitious idea: what happens if the diamond industry—long shaped by...
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...
International Jade Summit 2026 – Monterey Bay Jade Festival – Where Art, Supply, and...
Set along the coast of Monterey Bay, the city of Monterey provides a fitting backdrop for a gathering centered on jade. Known for its...
