A fancy-intense blue diamond ring with a high estimate of HKD 95 million ($12.3 million) will go under the hammer at the Magnificent Jewels auction at Christie’s in Hong Kong. The marquise-cut, [...]
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 171-carat, gem-quality diamond from its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola. The stone is the miner’s 15th over 100 carats from Lulo to date, and the second in [...]
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 64-carat, high-quality stone from its Mothae mine in Lesotho, it said Wednesday. The D-color, type IIa diamond is the 12th over 50 carats the miner has [...]
Gem Diamonds has recovered a white diamond weighing 114 carats at its Letšeng mine in Lesotho, the second stone over 100 carats the miner has found this year, it said Tuesday. The company [...]
New York-based diamond collector and wholesaler L.J. West has purchased a 6.21-carat fancy-intense-pink-purple diamond from Alrosa. The stone, one of three the Russian miner cut and polished from [...]
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) will offer $2 million in scholarship funds to aspiring students in 2020, it said Tuesday. Students interested in gemology and jewelry-manufacturing arts [...]
A fancy vivid blue diamond weighing 8.08 carats, set in a Bulgari-made ring, was sold for more than $18 million this Fall at CHristie’s magnificent Jewels auction in New York. The price [...]
Mouawad has manufactured a 54.21-carat polished yellow stone, which, it claims, is the largest of its shape and color the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has ever graded. The company named [...]
Alrosa has unearthed a rough stone weighing nearly 200 carats from its Udachnaya pipe, its largest in more than two years, the company said Tuesday. The 191.46-carat stone, which is white with a [...]
Israeli exploration company Shefa Yamim has identified a new mineral while examining gemstones it had unearthed in the country. The miner has named the material carmeltazite, as it discovered it [...]
