Israeli Bourse to Receive GIA’s Latest Synthetic Diamonds Device

(IDEX Online News) – GIA President Susan Jacques, and her deputy, Tom Moses, will present the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) with its state-of-the-art device for the identification of synthetic diamonds during a visit in early February.

The GIA says the machine has a synthetic diamonds identification accuracy rate of 97 percent, while the remaining 3 percent of suspect stones are classified by the device as “not clear”, and should be sent to the laboratory for a more comprehensive inspection.

The Israel Diamond Exchange will be the first bourse in the world to receive the sophisticated machine, according to the exchange’s website.

The device is expected to arrive in Israel in early February 2014 at the same time that Jacques and Moses are due to visit the exchange.

A special ceremony will be held to mark the handing over of the machine to the IDE’s Technology Division by Jacques and Moses.

The idea for the presentation of the machine followed a meeting of IDE President Shmuel Schnitzer, and Chairman of the IDE’s Industry, Marketing and External Relations Committee, Yoram Dvash, with Moses during the Israel Diamond Week in New York last week.

Moses promised that the IDE would receive the new device, which is the most advanced of its kind developed by the Gemological Institute of America for the identification of synthetic diamonds.