The new deal between De Beers and Botswana is a win - and a compromise - for both sides. And a win for the industry in general. So says Paul Rowley, executive vice-president, diamond trading, at the British-based miner, after prolonged negotiations... Read More...

Lab grown prices may be plunging. But manufacturing diamonds, rather than mining them, does open the door to a weird, wonderful - and in some cases very profitable - world of opportunities. Read More...

Everything we buy has a carbon footprint. It's a measure of all the greenhouse gases emitted during every stage of its production, expressed as a carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). A bar of chocolate typically has a CO2e of 100g. A pair of Levi 501 jeans is Read More...

The world's biggest diamond manufacturing country presented the world's biggest diamond buying nation with a gift last week. A lab grown diamond. First Lady Jill Biden, wife of the US President Joe Biden, was, by all accounts, delighted to receive the... Read More...

Lab growns are getting bigger. Much bigger. Last February the record for a polished lab grown diamond was held by a 16.41-carat princess-cut gem from China. Today the biggest polished lab grown is more than three times the size, a 50.25-carat ... Read More...

Is the diamond world ready for a single traceability solution operating across the entire pipeline, from source to store? Wes Tucker, CEO at Tracr, thinks so, especially following the announcement at JCK a couple of weeks ago that it was now actively recruiting partners... Read More...

Signet remains the biggest jewelry retailer in the US, by a mile, in National Jeweler's latest list of $100m Supersellers. And Walmart is still in second place. But elsewhere there's been a fair bit of jostling for positions. In fact, for the first time in recent years there's ... Read More...

Twenty per cent of the world's diamonds are up for grabs. The clock is ticking on the De Beers rough sales agreement with the government of Botswana. And both sides are under increasing pressure, with less than a month before it's due to be renewed... Read More...

It's now 15 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. The US leapt in with immediate sanctions on its diamonds, but with a loophole so big you could drive a bus through it. China has strengthened its ties with Russia, the UAE has remained decidedly neutral, as has India,  Read More...

We've not heard much from Alrosa of late. Russia's state-controlled miner has been more or less incommunicado since tanks rolled into Ukraine last February. I was scrolling through my WhatsApp exchanges with their press office in an idle moment. The edited... Read More...