pIn a further indication of the growing importance of the Chinese market, more than 50 Antwerp diamond companies will be exhibiting inthe Antwerp Diamond Pavilion at the March 5-9 Hong Kong International Show./p
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Asia
AWDC Pavilion to be one of the largest at Hong Kong International Show
Company News
New Toolbar Offered for Online Diamond Search
DiamondWorld.Net, a B2B diamond-trading marketplace has introduced a toolbar that enables retailers or buyers to easily search for diamonds online. The toolbar is the first of its kind for diamond buyers across the world.
Through the toolbar, buyers and retailers can make a quick diamond search of certified and non-certified from more than 200,000 listings from [...]
Company News
Rio Tinto Diamonds Sales Dates For 2010
Rio Tinto Diamonds sells rough diamonds in large volumes to a number of specialist customers. The relationship between Rio Tinto Diamonds and its customers is based on mutual understanding and trust, and is long-term in nature.
Rio Tinto Diamonds customers benefit by receiving a regular supply of consistently assorted rough diamonds. Consistency of assortments and allocations [...]
Industry News
New Report Covers Global Market of Jewelry and Watches Trade
The Jewelry & Watches: Global Industry Guide, an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Jewelry & Watches industry, is now offered by Research and Markets. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report [...]
Company News
Clark McEwen Appointed as Marketing Manager of Rio Tinto Diamonds as Patick Coppens Becomes Rio Tinto Diamonds Sales Manager
Rio Tinto, one of the world’s leading diamond companies, is reorganising its Antwerp-based sales and marketing management team.
Integral to this reorganisation is the appointment of Clark McEwen to the position of Marketing Manager, reporting to Jean-Marc Lieberherr, Rio Tinto Diamonds General Manager, Sales and Marketing. Clark will be based in Antwerp, effective March 1. Clark [...]
Company News
Antwerp Diamond Trade Fair to Feature 43 Leading Antwerp Diamond Firms
The 105-year-old Antwerp Diamond Bourse – Beurs voor Diamanthandel – is to launch a revolutionary initiative with an exclusive, by-invitation only diamond trade fair in the bourse trading hall, February 7-9, 2010. The three-day Antwerp Diamond Trade Fair will feature 43 leading Antwerp diamond firms. The bourse believes it can offer the widest possible range [...]
Miscellaneous
The ‘New Normal’ in the Diamond Industry
The second Antwerp Diamond Symposium was a success. After one of the most difficult years the diamond industry has ever known, 2010 is likely to be a year of growth, however the sector needs to understand that there is now a “new normal” in the global economy. That was message conveyed by speakers at [...]
Europe
Consumer Confidence to be Highlighted During WFDB Presidents’ Meeting
The presidents of the 28 bourses affiliated bourses of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) will be gathering in Antwerp, Belgium, November 15–18, to attend the 2009 Presidents’ Meeting of WFDB and of its sister organization, the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA).
In a message to the federation’s members, WFDB President Avi Paz said that [...]
Africa
Kimberley Process Review Mission Final Report Hints at Zimbabwean Diamonds Travelling to Cutting Factories via Mozambique
The final report of the Kimberley Process Review Mission to Zimbabwe notes that the team conducting the Review Mission consistently received reports that diamonds from Marange typically exit Zimbabwe via the nearby border with Mozambique, where significant illicit buying and trading operations are underway.
The team also received reports subsequent to the mission indicating that [...]
Europe
Antwerp Symposium: The Diamond Industry in the New Economy
The forthcoming 2 day diamond symposium in Antwerp will focus on the diamond industry in the new economy. The symposium will include workshops, sessions of diamond supply and diamond demand, as well as financial issues.
Key speakers at the symposium include include captains of industry from mining companies, diamond banks, retailers as well as key industry [...]
Africa
Stellar Diamonds Reports Sales of US$410,000 in June and July, Gemstones of Up to 7.89 CT Recovered on Mandala, Guinea
SearchGold Resources Inc. has announced encouraging progress for Stellar Diamonds Limited in which it holds 2.7 million shares or an interest of 5.5%.
The Mandala alluvial diamond project is 100% owned by Stellar and comprises two alluvial mining concessions in southeastern Guinea. The project comprises an independently verified diamond resource of 535,000 carats (NI 43-101 compliant). [...]
Industry News
Israeli Government to Underwrite Training of Diamond Polishers
At a meeting with the leaders of the Israeli Diamond Industry yesterday, Israel’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said that he would help finance a professional training program for diamond polishers. The ministry program, to be implemented in 2009-2010, will train 100 unemployed to become polishers on the level of “Excellent”.
Diamond leaders [...]
