MJSA – Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America Inc. – is a jewelry trade association representing over 1400 member companies, employing over 60,000 skilled workers, from the jewelry industry and trade in the United States, and includes jewelry designers, artisans/manufacturers and retailers engaged in jewelry design, manufacture, sale and repair of jewelry, from small and […]
Lucapa Diamond Company in a press release dated May 19, 2015, announced the sale of a fourth parcel of diamonds from its Lulo Diamond Concession in Angola, realizing gross proceeds of A$2.9 million (US$2.3 million), as alluvial mining operations at the project continue to expand further. The average price-per-carat of the 1,539-carat parcel works out […]
The 16th-Biennial ICA Congress due to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, for the second time in 26 years, from May 16th-19th, 2015, at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo was inaugurated on Saturday, May 17th, 2015 by the Minister of Finance of the Government of Sri Lanka, Honourable Ravi Karunanayake, who represented the President of […]
Christie’s Geneva Magnificent Jewels Spring Sale held on May 13, 2015 was a significant success, registering a sales total of US$97,515,535 (CHF91,246,875), selling 77% by lot and 81% by value and 21 lots selling at over one million US dollars. As anticipated colored diamonds, colored gemstones and natural pearls featured strongly at the auctions, with […]
As predicted Sotheby’s Geneva May 12, 2015, Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels Sale turned out to be a memorable auction for more than one reason. The auction achieved the highest total ever for any jewelry auction of US$160.9 million (CHF149.9 million), exceeding the previous record of US$154.2 million (CHF141.3 million) set at Christie’s Geneva Magnificent […]
In a news report dated April 30, 2015, IDEX Online News, announced the passing away of one of the last pioneers of Israel’s diamond industry and trade and the first General Manager of the Israeli Diamond Exchange, Michael Cohen, on April 19, 2015, at the ripe old age of 97 years. Born in 1918, Michael […]
A unique modern-looking polished green-stone bracelet made out of the green mineral chlorite, and discovered together with a ring carved out of marble, inside an ancient Siberian cave, known as the Denisova cave, in the Altai Mountain range in 2008, has now been determined by Russian Scientists and Archaeologists to be around 40,000 years old, […]
Association between certain plant species and specific minerals in the soil have been known since medieval times, as in the case of Sweden, where plants have been used to locate sources of copper. Botanists and Geologists have also known for a long time that certain plant species have adapted themselves to grow in certain soil […]
ALROSA, the world’s leading diamond mining company, accounting for more than 25% of global diamond production in terms of carats, has announced the recovery of a 76.07-carat octahedral rough diamond towards the end of February 2015, from its Yubileynaya (Jubilee) Diamond Mine, the world’s biggest diamond mine, situated in the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic of Russia, […]
The 2015 CIBJO Congress held in Salvador, the Capital of the northeastern Brazilian State of Bahia from May 4-6 th, 2015, the first ever to be held in a Latin American country, came to a successful close after three days of fruitful deliberations, culminating with the arrival at a consensus on the controversial subject of […]