Prince William and his wide Kate are due to visit the ‘Diamond Capital of North America’, Yellowknife, as part of their tour of Canada and the west coast of the United States. The newly-weds, their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will visit eight cities during their tour of Canada, from June 30 [...]
Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner proposed to Playboy Playmate Crystal Harris during the Christmas weekend with an engagement ring. “After the movie tonight, Crystal & I exchanged gifts. I gave Crystal a ring. A truly memorable Christmas Eve. When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears. This is the happiest Christmas weekend in [...]
Back in 2001, plaintiffs in several states of the United States filed lawsuits in state and federal courts against De Beers, the largest supplier of rough diamonds in the world, alleging that De Beers unlawfully monopolized the supply of diamonds, conspired to fix, raise, and control diamond prices, and issued false and misleading advertising. While [...]
According to the Zimbabwean govt newspaper, the government of Zimbabwe will undertake an aeromagnetic survey of the Eastern Highlands to determine the extent of diamond reserves in Manicaland province. Mines and Mining Development permanent secretary Mr Thankful Musukutwa said this while addressing an Indian delegation that visited Zimbabwe last week to explore trade opportunities in [...]
With Zimbabwe’s diamond industry still shrouded in secrecy, the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) and three Zimbabweans have petitioned South Africa’s New Reclamation Group for access to information that will shed some much-needed light on its controversial mining operations – and prove whether any of its promises to local communities have been fulfilled. In particular, [...]
Lot Description A PAIR OF IMPERIAL TOPAZ, RUBY AND DIAMOND EAR PENDANTS, BY JAR Each set with an elongated oval-cut imperial topaz, within a circular-cut diamond surround, enhanced by circular-cut ruby clusters, to the diamond-set link and hoop, mounted in silver and 18k rose gold, with French assay marks and maker’s marks, in a JAR [...]
Disney Consumer Products is collaborating with high-end designers Rousseau, Hayden-Harnett, Rotenier, and TomTom to launch a luxury accessory and shoe collection for women inspired by the high-tech 3D adventure, TRON: Legacy, releasing in U.S. theaters Dec. 17, 2010 in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D. Designed for the young female urbanite, the new TRON: Legacy [...]
A new GIA Laboratory report called “Using the DiamondView to Detect Irradiation-Induced Defects in a Brown-Orange Diamond”, by Sally Chan and Paul Johnson of the GIA Laboratory in New York reports on using the DTC DiamondView to detect irradiation-induced defects in a brown orange diamond. “Fluorescence is an important property of diamonds, which have characteristic [...]
Namakwa Diamonds, the integrated diamond resource group focused on Southern Africa, has announced that its Sales & Trading Division is to tender in Johannesburg on 13 October 2010, in excess of 6,000 carats from its kimberlite operations in Lesotho, operated by Storm Mountain Diamonds and 10,000 carats from its alluvial operations in the Tshikapa Triangle [...]
Guernsey’s auction house is auctioning off Elvis Presley’s 1963 Signature ID Bracelet. The bracelet was gifted by Elvis to his future fiancee, Ginger Alden, and placed on her wrist during a flight to Las Vegas inside of his private jet in 1976. Elvis then told Ginger “Now everyone will know you belong to me”. This [...]
CIRCA Auctions, a leading international auction house of fine jewellery based in Toronto, has announced that its upcoming Toronto sale and auction of jewels will feature the most valuable and rarest pink diamond ever available in Canada. Weighing a spectacular 10.11 carats, this conflict-free gem, discovered in the Argyle Diamond Mines of Australia, is among [...]
Moody’s Investors Service has changed the outlook to stable on the Ba3 corporate family rating of Alrosa Co Ltd. (“Alrosa” or “the company”) and Ba3 / LGD 4 (50) ratings on the senior unsecured guaranteed notes of Alrosa Finance S.A. The change in the outlook is driven by the improvement in the diamond market reflected [...]