Jewelers Mutual and Jewelers’ Security Alliance (JSA) have issued an urgent warning to the trade about the increasing severity and frequency of jewelry-store robberies by organized crime groups. The ...

Richemont has named Buccellati’s Gianluca Brozzetti as executive vice president of new jewelry acquisition Vhernier’s board in an interim CEO role. Brozzetti will take on the new position immediately ...

Josh Arazi, vice president and creative director at Arazi Diamonds, came on the Rapaport Diamond Podcast to discuss the company’s decision to restrict the services it offers customers that sell ...

US retail sales continued to grow in August as consumer demand returned amid lower inflation and a softening in unemployment levels. Revenue rose 0.1% from the previous month to $710.8 billion — ...

Lucara Diamond Corp. has recovered a massive diamond weighing 1,094 carats from its Karowe mine in Botswana, the second over 1,000 carats in the last month. The “extraordinary” stone was detected ...

Gübelin Gem Lab has debuted a new lab in Bangkok, Thailand, which will offer a full range of services, with a focus on its recently introduced Gem Passports. The company opened the new space in ...

There’s a constant buzz about Turner Road, the upscale thoroughfare that passes through the heart of Mumbai’s trendy Bandra West neighborhood. Bandra has gained a reputation for attracting the city’s ...

The drop in diamond recoveries is a response to market conditions, but also a reflection of diminishing prospects for viable new mines. Diamond miners are postponing sales and reviewing their ...

A pair of Boucheron diamond-cluster earrings beat its upper estimate at a recent jewelry sale at Christie’s in New York, bringing in $567,000. The pair, which carried a high price of $550,000, ...

Tricksters are getting better at imitating inscriptions on diamonds — but there’s still one feature of the laser engraving that they can’t duplicate, says Dr. Wuyi Wang of the Gemological Institute of ...

Gemfields saw weak sales at the most recent auction of emeralds from its Kagem mine in Zambia amid a slowdown in luxury demand, primarily from China, and competition from another producer. The company ...

“A concerning announcement from the World Gem Federation: The global gemological academy has ceased its educational courses in Ethiopia following the ‘unlawful seizure’ of gemological and lapidary ...