Sign-up for La Lettre from R&M to get the essentials of current affairs in the diamond industry and privileged access to the articles published below
We keep your data private and only share it with third parties that make this service possible. Read our Confidentiality Policy for more information.
Signet Jewelers, the world’s largest retailer of diamond jewelry, will become the first chain to join De Beers’ pilot of an end-to-end diamond blockchain program called Tracr, the miner announced.
CEO Bruce Cleaver on why the company’s lab-grown diamonds won’t get a color or clarity grade, and why customers would tolerate losing them in the sea.
The Board of the Diamond Producers Association acknowledges the decision of De Beers Group to enter the synthetic diamond market through its subsidiary Element Six.
Press release – De Beers Group today announced the launch of a new company called Lightbox Jewelry that will begin marketing a new brand of laboratory-grown diamond jewelry under the Lightbox name in September
WD Lab Grown Diamonds has created what it claims to be the world’s largest known synthetic diamond made using chemical vapor deposition (CVD).
The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) has announced a series of senior appointments to its Board of Directors as the organization continues to strengthen its position as the jewelry industry’s foremost standards setting and certification body.
Nowadays, we see that the responsible supplies and tracing the provenance of rough diamonds are thriving and widely discussed in the industry.
On April 11th, De Beers representatives came to Paris to present their Blockchain pilot project called Tracr to the French industry.
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.