The Diamond Bourse of Canada will be fully operational by the end March, the Bourse announced Tuesday. Since the official opening of Canada's first diamond exchange in January, its management and staff have been preparing a set of services that will be offered to members from the bourse's downtown Toronto location.

Among those services, according to the new bourse's president Bhushan Vora, are a trading floor and other industry-oriented business facilities.

"Apart from offering secretarial and other technical services, we want the bourse floor to be a source of education, where members can attend seminars and lectures about diamonds and related areas of interest," Vora said.

The bourse will feature a technological centre with systems by companies such as Sarin Technologies, which has donated a diamension proportion and cut grading machine and a Colibri color grading machine to the bourse. De Beers has donated a DiamondSure machine for indicating synthetic and HPHT treated diamonds and HRD Antwerp NV has provided a D Screen machine to detect synthetic and HPHT diamonds and a gemological microscope.  

The bourse anticipates being fully operational by the third week of March.