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From salt & pepper intrigue to rose-cut elegance and rare fancy-colors, natural diamonds with character are shaping global demand. Retailers: here’s what to focus on in 2026; Salt & [...]

US jewelry sales at the start of the holiday season are up to 20% above those of the previous year, according to respondents who took part in a Rapaport News survey. An additional 11% of those [...]

As of 1 September, 6:01 a.m. CET, 2025 (backdated), the United States applies new country-specific tariffs on diamond imports via Annex II, a list of certain products that can be exempt from [...]

Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s will offer The Crown Coin, which marked Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, at its upcoming auction later this month. The 24-karat gold coin contains 6,426 [...]

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) recently examined two diamonds, submitted separately, which both contained star-shaped patterns stemming from clouds of dark micro-inclusions. The first [...]

Na trouwjurken, sneakers, eau de parfum en designzonnebrillen duikt budgetkledingmerk Zeeman nu de wereld van diamanten in. Het resultaat: een synthetische diamant ofwel een diamant uit een labo [...]

Is Taylor Swift engaged? You bet! It’s a big day for Swifties and pop culture enthusiasts everywhere—Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are officially engaged! Yes, you read that right. Taylor Swift [...]

Gemfields has unveiled an 11,685-carat rough emerald it unearthed earlier this month — the largest exceptional-quality gemstone to come from its Kagem mine in Zambia. The stone — which the [...]

Rio Tinto has unearthed a purple diamond weighing 0.45 carats at its Diavik mine, an unusual find at a site that generally produces white stones. A trace element like hydrogen or a twist in the [...]

Het diamantlaboratorium HRD Antwerp reikt al sinds 1973 certificaten uit die de echtheid bevestigen en de kwaliteit van diamanten beschrijven. Sinds meer dan tien jaar deed het labo, dat op vijf [...]