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On April 27, Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold a single-lot auction for the largest and potentially most valuable blue diamond ever to come under the hammer—a 15.1 ct. internally flawless step-cut, called the De Beers Cullinan Blue.
National Jeweler talks to two analysts about market share and where the stones go from here.
The founder of a cryptocurrency company purchased the stone and will rename it the “Hex.com” diamond.
Prices of fancy-color diamonds grew in 2021 as the market recovered from the previous year’s pandemic-induced slump, according to the Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF).
The Indian government has reduced customs duty on polished diamonds to 5%, a move the industry has welcomed.
Alrosa increased rough prices by around 10% at its January trading session as supply gaps widened, customers of the Russian miner told Rapaport News.
De Beers raised its diamond output in the fourth quarter of 2021 in response to buoyant demand that has put pressure on rough supply.
Alrosa has retooled its method for bringing diamonds to market, shaving 15 to 25 days off the time lag between processing and sales.
The International Gemological Institute (IGI) and the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) labs have recently examined the largest lab-grown diamonds they have ever seen grown with the high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods.
Rory Moore has worked at Ekati, the first diamond mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories, on and off for years. He was part of the original crew that first developed the mine in the 1990s. In 2018, he rejoined what was then called Dominion Diamond. He then became its interim president in January 2020, and in […]
India’s polished-diamond exports rose 3% year on year to $1.77 billion in December as the market continued to strengthen during the climax of the holiday season.
The massive natural fancy black diamond will be offered without reserve at Sotheby’s next month.