It's hard to believe that three years have passed since the diamond world last converged on Vegas. Who among the 30,000-plus visitors and exhibitors could have imagined that JCK 2020 and JCK 2021 simply wouldn't happen? That the world would be gripped by a global... Read More...

People do business with people they trust. People do not do business with businesses. The human connection, or lack thereof, is the number one determinant of a business's success. That's why trade shows and getting meetings are an important part of B2B marketing... Read More...

The fog of the Russian-Ukrainian war has hidden a major diamond battle that rages thousands of miles south-west to the Russian war zone. The President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, speaking at a gala dinner in Gaborone, declared that "he no longer wished to operate under.... Read More...

Traceability was already a hot topic before Russia invaded Ukraine. Now it's even hotter. Guaranteeing a diamond's country of origin before 24 February may have been an attractive bonus. Today it's fast becoming an imperative, so that gems sold without evidence of ... Read More...

War, in any form or for any reason, always has a catastrophic impact. This is true of the Ukraine conflict and the world has clearly expressed its deep sympathy for the country's people. War also can significantly upend businesses and their strategies, both locally as... Read More...

For most of the modern history of the jewelry business, the vast majority of end users (consumers of the product) have been women. Simultaneously, the people controlling the fine jewelry supply pipeline have been men. With the recent explosion of the lab-grown ... Read More...

It came so close to being a world beater. But the largest blue diamond ever to be auctioned yesterday missed its place in the history books . . . by less than $70,000. The De Beers Cullinan Blue was sold after eight minutes of furious bidding at a single-lot auction at Sotheby's Hong Kong... Read More...

There have, traditionally, been two main ways to get diamonds out of the ground - open pit mining and underground mining. Now there's about to be a third. Canada's Ekati diamond mine is planning to flood an existing pit and use an underwater crawler to mine the ore... Read More...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is changing the diamond industry's governing dynamics. The last time something similar happened was after 9/11, when the American Congress adopted the Patriot Act in October 2001. Global business fundamentals had to change including for the diamond and jewelry industries... Read More...

You may have heard of Meylor Global. They made headlines in January with news that they'd produced the world's biggest lab grown diamond, certified by IGI at 150.42 carats. It broke a record set by the same company in September 2020, with a 115.65-carat stone. What you probably didn't realize ... Read More...