The rumor mill about the quality of GIA India certificates started early, but when talk of “upgraded” reports started, I learned a considerable part of the certification was done in NYC. Read More...

In the old days, people would watch the heads of the USSR standing on the Kremlin balcony and measure the distance between the leader and other officials to learn about their status. Read More...

Some good and bad news can be reported on the progress made by the KP to appoint a Monitor for the Marange diamond fields of Zimbabwe. Read More...

There is only one person in the world who can out-rap Rap – and that is Rap himself. Read More...

Good governance and corruption within diamond-producing companies are, by definition, a relative phenomena. While one company may have more of the first, another company may have the lion’s share of the latter. Read More...

Two diamond merchants were debating the future of the diamond business. “The world will be running out of natural gem-quality diamonds and our future is in synthetics and simulants. We better join the future now,” argued one. Read More...

More often than not, when a company commissions a public opinion survey those who spent the money want to see results that put favorable light on the product they wish to push into the market. Read More...

Forget about the NGOs, WDC or KP people. The African diamond-producing countries have now independently launched their own PSA in a campaign against conflict diamonds. Read More...

“History is composed not only of what happened but of what didn’t happen,” Time Magazine wrote about its Man of the Year, Bernanke. In a micro-way, this also applies to our industry – though in a different manner. Read More...

We applauded the diamond industry players who created the International Diamond Board, with Alrosa as the engine behind it. But suddenly the real issue became whether Alrosa was still interested in the initiative at all. Read More...