The synthetic diamond gumball exhibit. (David Legreve/AWDC) The marketing conundrum Rentmeesters believes something slightly shocking and a bit viral, like the gumball machine ploy, is what’s really ...

Okavango Diamond Company (ODC), the Botswana state-owned trader, has begun registering its rough diamonds on the Tracr blockchain platform, a step aimed at enhancing transparency across the supply ...

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 ...

Alysa Teichman, Co-owner of Ylang 23 “We are excited to see newness from our current designers and how their collections have evolved with rising gold costs. We especially love seeing our overseas ...

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 ...

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 ...

Basilisk necklace by Selim Mouzannar with diamonds and sapphires. (Selim Mouzannar) “Georgian and early-Victorian pieces are always handmade and one of a kind, so you tend to see labor-intensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Botswana President Duma Boko has announced plans for the termination of over 1,000 workers at Debswana, the government’s joint venture with De Beers. Boko made the declaration at a recent address to ...

On a recent episode of the Rapaport Diamond Podcast, a prominent executive in the Indian manufacturing sector gave a revealing report of his company’s current operations. “Since October, we are back ...