The De Beers Group of Companies announced on February 5, 2014 that it has made three new appointments to its Executive Committee with immediate effect. Accordingly, Executive Vice President of Global Sightholder Sales, Paul Rowley; Executive Vice President of Auction Sales, Neil Ventura; and CEO of Debswana Balisi Bonyongo, will join the Executive Committee, bringing […]
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De Beers Canada Inc. and Mountain Province Diamonds, joint venture partners of the Gahcho Kué Project announced on January 27, 2014, that De Beers the operator of the Gahcho Kué Project had signed an Impact Benefit Agreement (IBA) with the Tlicho Government, representing the Dene Aboriginal Canadian People, living in the project area in the […]
A phenomenal increase in the import of Lab-grown diamonds by Surat, from just below $3 million in 2008 to $83 million in 2013, has become a cause of concern to the regulatory authorities of the gem and jewelry industry in India, including the Gems and Jewelry Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), in the wake of reports […]
In the fight against non-disclosure of lab-grown/synthetic diamonds by unscruplous diamond dealers, and the tendency to mix such diamonds with natural diamond parcels, researchers at the Gemological Institute of America, led by Dr. Wuyi Wang, GIA’s director of research and development, has developed a 100% accurate synthetic diamond detector, that has the ability to determine […]
In a press release dated January 23, 2014, Christie’s auction house has reported a record-breaking result for global jewelry sales in 2013, totaling US$ 678.3 million, the highest annual result ever achieved for jewelry in the history of the auction house. The turnout for 2013 reflects an 18% increase over Christie’s 2012 total, and beats […]
Petra Diamonds, owners of the Premier/Cullinan diamond mine since 2008, has announced the discovery of an extraordinary, 29.6-carat, rough blue diamond during their operations at the historic mine, situated 37 km northeast of Pretoria in South Africa’s Gauteng Province. Commenting on their latest find, a spokesman of the diamond mining company said, “the exceptional acorn-sized […]
International diamond tendering company Fusion Alternatives and the international diamond brokerage firm I. Hening & Co. who jointly handle the rough diamond tenders of Namakawa Diamonds and its subsidiary Storm Mountain Diamonds production from their KAO mine in Lesotho, has announced the dates of the next KAO Rough/Special Diamond Tenders, due to take place from […]
The inaugural Kolkata Jewelry & Gem Fair (KJGF), the first of its kind in eastern India, primarily aimed at highlighting the City of Kolkata as an international center of hancrafted gold jewelry, painstakingly created by the traditional craftsmen, known as “kaarigars,” whose exceptional skills had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of […]
The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards was held at the Beverley Hilton Hotel, in Beverley Hills, California, on Sunday, January 12, 2014. Such Star-studded, glittering events, with a worldwide TV audience, while serving its primary purpose of recognizing and bestowing honors on talented actors and actresses in the competitive field of cinema and television, has […]
Hard on the heels of the announcement of the Gem & Jewelry Export Promotion Council of India (GJEPC) at the turn of the new year to crackdown on the unethical practice of mixing lab-grown synthetic diamonds with natural diamond parcels, that could potentially tarnish both the image of the industry and the country, further stringent […]