Question: When is a lab grown diamond not a lab grown diamond? Answer: When you're in France. By law, you have to call it a "diamant de synthese" or "synthetique" - "synthetic diamond" or "synthetic". Those are the only acceptable terms.... Read More...

It's like something from a whodunnit - a suspected diamond thief is trapped by invisible inscriptions on the stolen gems. The chances are they didn't even realize there was such a thing, even though the laser technology has been around since the 80s... Read More...

It was an incredible story. An elderly woman walked into an auction house in the north of England clutching a bag of low-value costume jewelry and what looked like a very large CZ. She'd picked it out from bric-a-brac at a garage sale years earlier. She stuck it... Read More...

Two air crashes, less than a month apart, en route to the same diamond mine, are bound to raise safety concerns. They both happened on flights to Rio Tinto's Diavik mine, in Canada's remote and frozen Northwest Territories, 200 miles from the Arctic Circle... Read More...

Lab growns are for people who can't afford natural diamonds, right? Wrong, says Fergus James. He's a jeweler based at the Jumeirah Lake Towers, in Dubai. He has some uber-wealthy clients and he says 90 per cent of his business, by volume, is lab grown... Read More...

It's impossible to say how many lab growns are being "cloned". But it's a type of fraud that's clearly on the increase. And the widening price differential between natural and lab grown is only going to act as an incentive for more criminal activity... Read More...

The rescue of 10 passengers and crew from a plane that crashed in the frozen wasteland of Canada's Northwest Territories last week serves as a powerful reminder of the lengths we go to recover diamonds. From the warmth and safety of a jewelry ... Read More...

Happy New Year! Things seem, finally, to be picking up in the diamond world. After almost two years of declining prices there is now room for cautious optimism. Mixed with uncertainty. The big question mark in 2024 hangs over sanctions on Russian diamonds... Read More...

Marriage ain't what it used to be. Fewer people are tying the knot than ever before. Many are waiting until they're more financially secure before marrying. Or not marrying. And not buying a ring. And even now the lingering effects of that dreaded passion killer... Read More...

Men buy diamonds, women wear them. That's just the way it's been since De Beers started putting diamonds on women's fingers a century or so ago. Bridal still drives the industry, but more and more men are buying and wearing diamonds. Bling tells the world... Read More...