US authorities are investigating a massive theft of jewelry from a Brink’s armored vehicle in California last week. The truck was transporting goods to the International Gem & Jewelry Show in [...]
Belgium’s polished-diamond exports increased 12% year on year to $683 million in November as the global market continued to strengthen ahead of the holidays. The rise reflected growth in the [...]
Lucapa Diamond Company has unearthed a 138-carat rough diamond from its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola, it said Thursday. The company found the stone at the site’s Mining Block 46 portion of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Christie’s is set to auction a 24-carat diamond necklace that Marilyn Monroe wore for the premiere of her 1953 movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The fancy-yellow, VS2-clarity Moon of Baroda — which [...]
Belgium’s polished-diamond exports rose in May, according to data from the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC). Polished exports increased 5% year on year to $1.18 billion and, by volume, grew 4% [...]
An 8.01-carat blue diamond necklace was the top seller at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday. The pear-shaped, fancy vivid blue, internally flawless piece by Moussaieff [...]