Jewelers of America (JA) has revealed the names of the six jewelry trade associations that will receive its inaugural Impact Initiative grants. The initiative is a multifaceted program aimed at ...

Russian miner Alrosa has caught an employee allegedly exchanging low-value diamonds for more expensive ones, which, together with accomplices, she then sold to Armenian smugglers. Following an ...

Botswana President Duma Boko had to try twice to inject some energy into a sleepy audience at the annual World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) gathering in New York. It was the morning after the ...

Digital diamond-trading marketplace Clara has named Itay Ariel and Roni Rydlewicz to oversee its global strategy amid the company’s rapid growth. Founders HRA Group and former Lucara CEO Eira Thomas ...

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has updated the terms it will use to describe lab-grown on reports, to distinguish them further from natural diamonds. The new nomenclature will use ...

The main news from the recent Kimberley Process (KP) intersessional meeting related to the organization’s definition of conflict diamonds. The African Diamond Producers Association (ADPA), which ...

President Duma Boko has called for every diamond from Botswana’s mines to remain in the country for manufacturing, signaling a major policy shift, according to a local report. “We are moving to a ...

The US jewelry market is in motion: adapting, evolving, and revealing new patterns of consumer behavior in response to shifting economic and political pressures. In our May-June issue, Rapaport ...

Gemological Science International (GSI) is opening its 14 th global laboratory, located in Bangkok, Thailand. The facility will carry out comprehensive testing, analysis and certification services, ...

A jewelry-box feel at Trove’s West Village boutique. (Trove) The space also displays works by women artists such as Line Vautrin, Rachel Lancaster and Sanam Khatibi. Trove’s designer-in-residence ...

In late March, a trio of industry groups — the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO), the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA), and the International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA) — issued a ...

Sweta Jain, Designer and president, Goshwara “I’ve witnessed significant shifts in the market over two decades. When I first started, it was a seller’s market, but today, I strongly believe it has ...