Storm Mountain Diamonds has requested urgent tax breaks from the government of Lesotho it says will allow it to procure the investment necessary to prevent the closure of the Kao mine. A drop in ...

US consumer spending this holiday season is likely to come close to last year’s record, dropping $12 per person to average $890, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF) forecast. Of the ...

US jewelry sales at the start of the holiday season are up to 20% above those of the previous year, according to respondents who took part in a Rapaport News survey. An additional 11% of those ...

The cabinet of curiosities dates to Renaissance times as an encyclopedic collection of weird and wonderful objects. They could be scientific, religious, or geological, artworks or antiquities — items ...

Last year, British jeweler Boodles inked a deal with Rio Tinto to gain direct access to diamonds from the latter’s Diavik mine in Canada, as well as to the remaining pink diamonds from the miner’s now ...

Burgundy Diamond Mines will suspend operations at one of the two active pits at its Ekati mine in Canada and let go of hundreds of workers to cope with financial constraints stemming from the market ...

Leading players in the global industry, including producing countries and organizations, have signed an agreement that would see them create a collective marketing fund for natural diamonds.

Debswana Diamond Company is looking to global capital markets to finance the $6 billion underground expansion of its flagship Jwaneng mine. Speaking at The Future of Mining Summit on Monday, managing ...

The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) is launching a new marketing campaign for natural diamonds that centers around a gumball machine full of synthetics that can be “won” for five euros, in an ...

De Beers has earmarked its highest category-marketing spend in 10 years to promote natural diamonds and drive demand. The miner did not specify the amount, but it noted in a letter to shareholders ...

The Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) has suspended its membership in the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB), citing the global trade group’s “recent actions,” including its response to the US ...

Intricately 3D-printed precious metals, glass that can store audio of the ocean, and new horizons for synthetic gems are among the breakthroughs in this field. Rifle through the jewelry boxes of ...