Colored diamonds

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The top-selling piece at auction this year was the Pink Legacy, a rectangular-cut, 18.96-carat, fancy-vivid-pink diamond, which sold to Harry Winston for $50.4 million at Christie’s Geneva [...]

An 11-carat diamond will feature in Alrosa’s inaugural auction of colored polished diamonds at the upcoming Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair. The cushion-cut, fancy-deep-purple-pink stone [...]

Lesotho-focused miner Namakwa Diamonds will sell a 29.59-carat, fancy-pink rough stone in Antwerp this fall. The company discovered the diamond at its KAO mine in the African country on June 12, [...]

A fancy vivid pink diamond will officially be the most expensive piece of jewelry Christie’s Hong Kong has ever auctioned when it goes under the hammer at the Magnificent Jewels sale this month. [...]

Sotheby’s will offer the Donnersmarck Diamonds, once owned by La Païva, one of the most famous 19th-century courtesans in Paris, at its Magnificent and Noble Jewels auction in Geneva next month. [...]

Sotheby’s sold a pair of colored-diamond earrings for $57.4 million in Geneva, setting a new auction record for the category. The two pear-shaped stones match closely in everything but their [...]