Cormac Kinney is in the market for cheap diamonds. The cheaper the better. And he doesn't care what they look like. He's not buying them for their beauty, he's buying them to be traded as a ... Read More...

The internet was still in its infancy, Google was barely a noun, let alone a verb, and office keyboards belonged to typewriters, rather than computers. It was 2001, the year IDEX Online launched ... Read More...

It's often hard to understand cause and effect. Retailers have seen a surge in online diamond sales as a direct result of coronavirus restrictions. But how much of that will stick if and when things ever return to "normal"?... Read More...

Two diamond stories that appeared in the mainstream media stood out for me this week. One was a very respectable tale from the finance pages about De Beers announcing its biggest sight... Read More...

Remember trade shows? In decades gone by, they were very popular. They were still pulling in the crowds in January and February last year, when diamantaires would routinely fly across the world... Read More...

There's a new president in the White House, there's a new weapon against the pandemic and the times, as Bob Dylan put it back in 1964, they are a changin'. There's no "one-size-fits-all" way to sum up... Read More...

Last May, I wrote a Memo about the need for full disclosure on grading reports issues by gemological laboratories when it comes to post-growth treatments of laboratory-grown diamonds. That has not changed.... Read More...

It was Benjamin Disraeli who famously said: "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics." The British Prime Minister made his observation at least 140 years ago (he died in 1881) and ... Read More...

The tide is turning for lab-grown diamonds. The world's biggest bourse, Bharat, in Mumbai, India, voted earlier this week to allow them back on to its trading floors. Members overturned a ban ... Read More...

Will we ever get back to normal? We'll beat coronavirus, one day, that's for sure. But as 2020 draws to a close, will we revert to the way we were, or will the changes forced by Covid stay with us... Read More...