The Economic Times of India reported on January 24, 2014, that a stunning diamond necklace designed by Nirav Modi, a third-generation diamantaire, internationally renowned jewelry designer and chairman of Firestar Diamond, will be the top highlight of the Sotheby’s Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels Sale coming up in April 2014. The necklace with a starting bidding […]
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 […]
The fifth edition of the Antwerp Diamond Trade Fair (ADTF) sponsored by the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC), opens on January 26, 2014. The fair that will be held in the trading halls of the Antwerp Diamond Bourse, the Diamond Club of Antwerp and the Antwerp Diamond Kring will be attended by many hundreds of […]
The World Diamond Council set up in July 2000 after a joint meeting of the World Confederation of Diamond Bourses and the International Diamond Manufacturers Association is an organiztion comprising representatives of the diamond manufacturing and trading companies, whose primary objective was to examine ways to reduce the number of conflict diamonds entering the diamond […]
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 […]
The open-pit Victor diamond mine, situated in the James Bay Lowlands of northern Ontario, approximately 90 km west of the coastal community of Attawapiskat First Nation, is one of 18 kimberlite pipes discovered in the 1987/88 period, high in the Canadian Arctic, 16 of which were found to be diamondiferous. After the signing of an […]
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 Hong Kong International Jewelry Show, the world’s second largest jewelry fair and Asia’s leading jewelry event, organized by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), attained new heights in the year 2013, when it attracted more than 3,300 exhibitors from 49 countries and regions and over 42,000 buyers from 138 countries and regions. The […]
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 […]