A majority of the participants in the LGD area have their roots in the diamond business and consider lab-grown diamonds (LGD) to be an extension of their diamond business, albeit a much more profitable one. Anyone who runs an LGD business on the same ... Read More...

Life moves on. The Ford Model T had an internal combustion engine. The Tesla runs on electricity. Suitcases didn't have wheels before 1970. And now they do. We've been digging diamonds out of the ground for the last 2,500 years. Now we can grow them in a lab... Read More...

The war in Ukraine is inevitably nudging India towards lab grown diamonds. Things were already moving in that direction before Russia's tanks rolled in six months ago, but subsequent events have been a catalyst. Sanctions, supply shortages and banking restrictions...  Read More...

Pandora grabbed the headlines again this week with the launch of its lab grown collection in the US. It was a second bite of the PR cherry for the world's biggest jeweler. You may recall back in May 2021 when it announced it was ditching mined diamonds to  Read More...

What's worth more, a one-off Tiffany & Co gold pendant studded with diamonds and gemstones. Or the computer-generated pixel-art image of a face on which it is based? Old-fashioned common sense would suggest the former. But in today's upside-down world, it's not... Read More...

Few people get to lay eyes on the world's largest pink diamond. The Daria-e Noor, part of the Iranian crown jewels, sits in a dimly-lit and heavily-fortified basement in the country's central bank in Tehran. Visitors are allowed in, for eight hours a week, but ... Read More...

Few people get to lay eyes on the world's largest pink diamond. The Daria-e Noor, part of the Iranian crown jewels, sits in a dimly-lit and heavily-fortified basement in the country's central bank in Tehran. Visitors are allowed in, for eight hours a week, but they are... Read More...

The Brink's jewelry heist that netted up to $100m, and the offer of a $7m reward for the return of Tamara Ecclestone's stolen gems - it's been a busy time for news of high-value crime. Thieves broke into an armored van near Los Angeles earlier this month as Read More...

There was much excitement last month when Lusix announced a $90m funding round, not least because LVMH was among the investors. The French luxury conglomerate now owns the iconic US jeweler Tiffany & Co. Lusix makes lab-grown diamonds... Read More...

Last year's cyberattack on Graff came as a stark reminder to the jewelry world that nobody's safety is guaranteed. Many months later it has emerged that the exclusive London jeweler handed over the Bitcoin equivalent of $7.5m to prevent the hackers who had already... Read More...