The first place “Bulles de Champagne Collier (Champagne Bubbles Necklace).” The winners of the 2009 champagne diamond jewelry design competition was announced by Rio Tinto recently. The competitors of the design competition which was unveiled in May 2009 were told to create original designs that incorporates champagne diamonds of different sizes and a wide range […]
According to Dean VandenBiesen the founder of Life Gem, his firm is extracting carbon from Michael Jackson’s hair which will be converted into high quality diamonds in a laboratory. His hair was obtained after the singer burned a small part of his hair while filming a 1984 Pepsi commercial. Is this similar to one of […]
Image courtsey Christie’s A large and rare diamond named the Annenberg Diamond is to be sold on October 21st in a magnificent jewels sale in New York. The diamond a 32-carat emerald cut internally flawless set in a ring is expected to fetch between US$3 to 5 million. The ring which was designed by the […]
The Chairman/Director General of the BOI formally hands over the certificate of registration to the investors of Nakshatra Overseas (Private Ltd). Approval has been granted for a diamond trading house to be set up in Sri Lanka. The investment agreement that was facilitated by the BOI is worth US$1.6 million. The foreign investors, Nakshatra Overseas […]
Richard Lennox, the U.S director in charge of the De Beers account has resigned. This was made public by Rosemarie Ryan the president of JWT North America. JWT is the fourth largest advertising agency in the world. Lennox headed the JWT team that successfully carried out the marketing campaings of De Beers which included the […]
The Irish owned West Africa Diamonds (WAD), an AIM listed company sold its first parcel of diamonds from its Bomboko mine in Guinea. The mine is 100% owned by WAD. The diamond parcel which was sold in Antwerp weighed 433 carats and fetched $50,270. A large stone in the parcel which weighed 16.27 carats was […]
The import and export of rough and polished diamonds from Antwerp were lower in June compared to compared to June 2008. According to the website of the Israeli Diamond Industry the rate of the slowdown was lower than the decline during the first half of the year. This was made public by the Antwerp World […]
Cash for diamonds USA. COM, a new website which enables users to get a good price for their diamonds has been launched. This was made public by a press release from the company on July 15th. According to their company website users can sell loose diamonds, diamond jewelry, wedding bands, gold jewelry, small and large […]
De Beers (Stock Quote: DBRSY) has agreed to pay a 9% increase in wages to South African workers. The news was made public on Friday by the worlds largest producer of rough diamonds. The trade union for tha workers have initially demanded for a 15% pay hike but later dropped it to 9% because the […]
The National Gem and Jewellery Authority staff donate 30,000 bottles of drinking water to the internally displaced civilians in the north Photos courtsey: NGJA The staff of the National Gem and Jewellery Authority donated 30,000 bottles of drinking water to civilians fleeing from the fighting in the North on April 27th 2009 The Presentation of […]