Visitors to the Worldwide Gem and Jewelry Show in Tucson later this week will be able to pick up various gemstone reports thanks to a 'show service lab' organized by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
Plans for the World Jewelry Center (WJC) in Las Vegas will move forward now that Las Vegas city council has approved several agreements with the project's developer.
Dubai-based International Diamond Laboratories (IDL) issued the first ever Arabic-language diamond certificate last month, another sign of the region's growing importance in the jewellery industry.
India's Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) says a move by De Beers Diamond Trading Company (DTC) to remove eight Indian firms from its sightholder list for 2008 to 2011 "defies analysis."
It seems this clover is not so lucky. German supermodel Heidi Klum has been sued by Van Cleef and Arpels over claims she copied a vintage clover jewellery design.
A minibulk sample from the Kahuna kimberlite at Nunavut's Churchill Diamond Project has yielded 11,088 diamonds greater than 0.85 mm from a total sample of 356 dry tons.
Dubai is set to host the 2008 Congress of CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, a clear indication of the emirate's growing presence on the global jewellery stage.
Work is underway to reconstruct what is believed to be a 14-carat diamond unearthed in the Kahuna kimberlite dyke on the Churchill Diamond Project in Nunavut.
