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In the early 2000s, as the Kimberley Process was being forged, an NGO activist told me the best answer to post-war Sierra Leone’s diamond woes just might be De Beers reopening a buying office there. He fretted the company would never do that, as it feared the public relations repercussions.
Press release – De Beers Group today announced that it has successfully tracked 100 high-value diamonds along the value chain during the pilot of its industry blockchain platform
The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC), together with India’s Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), have launched a know-your-customer (KYC) exchange platform, called MyKYCBank.
CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, has announced the establishment of an industry-wide working committee to formulate Responsible Sourcing Guidelines specifically for the jewelry, gem and precious metals sectors.
The Annual General Meeting of the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI) was held in Ottawa on 27 and 28 April. Élodie Daguzan, the new Goodwill Ambassador for the DDI and Head of Communication at the Parisian diamond company Rubel & Ménasché, had the pleasure of attending this AGM.
Press release – Building Community Near and Far. Borsheims Fine Jewelry is the latest company to share their positive social impact stories through the Diamond Empowerment Fund’s Diamonds Do Good initiative.
India’s diamond industry is working to produce guidelines for banks to reduce their risks when lending to the trade.
By far the most important announcement this week was that of the De Beers Group that it is preparing to pilot a program called GemFair
A grading laboratory in China has discovered a synthetic diamond masquerading as a natural stone, complete with a forged inscription and a falsified report.
The diamond industry has for decades, done business with a truly international pipeline — diamonds are mined in some continents
The discount of gem-quality lab-created diamonds, manufactured for use in jewelry, relative to natural diamonds has doubled from 11-20% a year ago to 28-40% today, according to a survey of prices.
Press release – Botswana’s Okavango Diamond Company latest company to be highlighted to millennial consumers.
