US consumer spending this holiday season is likely to come close to last year’s record, dropping $12 per person to average $890, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF) forecast. Of the ...

US jewelry sales at the start of the holiday season are up to 20% above those of the previous year, according to respondents who took part in a Rapaport News survey. An additional 11% of those ...

Burgundy Diamond Mines will suspend operations at one of the two active pits at its Ekati mine in Canada and let go of hundreds of workers to cope with financial constraints stemming from the market ...

Leading players in the global industry, including producing countries and organizations, have signed an agreement that would see them create a collective marketing fund for natural diamonds.

Debswana Diamond Company is looking to global capital markets to finance the $6 billion underground expansion of its flagship Jwaneng mine. Speaking at The Future of Mining Summit on Monday, managing ...

The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) is launching a new marketing campaign for natural diamonds that centers around a gumball machine full of synthetics that can be “won” for five euros, in an ...

Martin Rapaport hosts De Beers Group CEO Al Cook . Recording at JCK - June 8, 2025. Watch the recording.

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 ...

During her industrial design studies at Lawrence Technological University, Jenna Sloane made the jump into lapidary work, trading design sketches for the whir of a faceting wheel. She began by ...

Garrard recently reported that it was selling lots of brooches again, to both men and women. The red carpet has been influential in this revival, with male celebrities adding some sparkle to their ...

The World Diamond Council (WDC) is calling on the US government to provide a dispensation for the diamond industry when implementing tariffs, noting the levies would put more than 200,000 jobs at risk ...

The Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) has suspended its membership in the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB), citing the global trade group’s “recent actions,” including its response to the US ...