The value of India’s polished-diamond exports declined 24% year on year in August. However, a comparison with rough imports indicates the inventory situation may be improving. What trends can we pick ...

Negative trends in the diamond market will ease in the remainder of 2024 as the inventory situation improves, Petra Diamonds predicted as it announced its full-year results. “We acknowledge the ...

Nestled in the International Gemological Institute (IGI) stock-flotation document were a few important and perhaps surprising facts. One was that the grading lab’s “pre-acquisition group” — which ...

What is the Rapaport team reading? Our editors and reporters have picked out content from around the web that’s helped expand their knowledge of the diamond and jewelry industry this week. Breitling ...

The video of Martin Rapaport’s latest webinar, which focused on natural-diamond prices, is now available. During the session — which broadcast live exclusively to Rapaport members on September 18 — ...

This episode of Rapaport’s GEMTalks series will feature a discussion on assessing the 4Cs of gemstones mounted in jewelry with special guests John Pollard of the International Gemological Institute ...

Jewelers of America (JA) will bestow its GEM Award for Lifetime Achievement to Lux Bond & Green jewelry store CEO John Green. The GEM Awards honor the outstanding achievements of individuals or ...

Official attendance figures won’t be available from Informa Markets until next week, but noticeable traffic on the show floor confirmed what exhibitors were saying: Sales at the September Hong Kong ...

Rio Tinto is offering workers at its Diavik diamond mine an early termination to their employment contracts, in the hopes of saving money in the lead-up to the deposit’s closure. The move is in ...

A rare necklace containing approximately 300 carats of diamonds, some of which may have ties to Marie Antoinette, is set to hit the auction block at Sotheby’s in Geneva. The piece, which is making its ...

Gem Diamonds has unearthed a 212.91-carat rough from its Letšeng mine in Lesotho, its 13th stone over 100 carats so far this year. The company has attributed the greater number of large diamonds it ...

An 8-carat diamond ring was the top seller at a recent jewelry sale at Sotheby’s in New York, garnering $336,000. The price the cushion-cut, D-color, internally flawless diamond ring achieved fell ...