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The New York-based designer’s Then & Now collection fuses gemstones with relics of the past to redefine how people adorn their bodies. Rebecca Rau faces challenges that few other fine-jewelry ...

Diamonds Do Good (DDG) will present awards to three honorees — including Tiffany & Co. — at a Las Vegas ceremony next spring, recognizing their positive impact on the global diamond industry. The ...

US retail sales continued to improve in November as the holiday shopping season got underway, and spending stayed in line with industry projections. Revenue from consumer shopping rose 0.6% compared ...

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) is redesigning its colored-gemstone reports and expanding the country-of-origin information the lab offers. The institute already has origin-determination ...

Sotheby’s garnered $30.1 million from its most recent jewelry sale in New York as many of the pieces sold for well above their high estimates. The top lot of the December 9 High Jewelry sale was a ...

Sotheby’s sold the world’s largest fancy-vivid-orangy-pink diamond last week in Abu Dhabi, where the stone raked in $8.8 million, beating its upper estimate. The Desert Rose — a pear-shaped, ...

A yellow diamond that the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) recently received for grading contained star-patterned inclusions that had the lab struggling to identify their source. When the GIA ...

A pink-diamond ring set a new record at Heritage Auctions last week when it sold for $2.2 million — the highest price the Texas-based auction house has ever achieved for a piece of jewelry. At the ...

A Graff diamond ring featuring a 13.11-carat diamond could fetch as much as $350,000 at Freeman’s upcoming sale in New York. The piece bears an oval brilliant-cut, H-color, VS1-clarity diamond between ...

The diamond industry is undergoing a significant and transformative shake-up. With a major dip in natural-diamond prices, many companies have either diversified their operations to include both ...

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi paused for a moment after stepping up to the podium to address the annual Natural Diamond Summit in Gaborone. As he looked through the marquee venue, aptly known ...