Sales of watches and jewelry in the US enjoyed a sixth consecutive month of increase in November 2020, according to new Department of Commerce figures. They were up 16.6 per cent year-on-year... Read More..

Diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz has been sentenced to five years in jail after a Swiss court convicted him of bribing officials in Guinea for valuable mining rights. He was found guilty of paying ... Read More..

Namakwa Diamonds is to sell another exceptional fancy pink diamond recovered from its Kao mine, in Lesotho. The 25.97-ct rough stone, named Pink Dawn, comes from the same geological... Read More..

Alrosa's sales of rough and polished diamonds soared by a third in the last quarter of 2020, up to $1.22bn (q-on-q). The Russian state-owned miner reported average realized prices in Q4 were... Read More..

Petra reported an eight per cent slip in gross revenue for the six months to December 2020, down to $178m. But it said like-for-like prices at its tender earlier this month - 382,000 carats ... Read More..

Exports of polished diamonds from India surged last month, up almost 40 per cent year-on-year, as recovery from the pandemic continued. Foreign sales for December 2020 totaled $1.74bn... Read More..