Pop star announces engagement to an NFL quarterback on social media, shares a picture of her ring online and sparks a frenzy of speculation about the size, cut and price of the diamond. Sounds familiar? No, it's not Taylor Swift. This time it's... Read More...

Remember Blockbuster, the video rental chain that once boasted more than 9,000 outlets globally? Or Kodak, the company that sold a billion rolls of film a year? Or Borders, Nokia, or BlackBerry? How are the mighty fallen. They innovated and they dominated... Read More...

Botswana is a nation built on diamonds. On 30 September 1966 the United Kingdom granted independence to what was then known as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, one of the world's poorest populations. Barely five months later, on 1 March 1967... Read More...

De Beers' historic sale is around the corner, and the entire industry is holding its breath. Will the new owners manage to become the new "Oppenheimers" and restore glory to natural diamonds? Read More...

Putting a price on some of the world's most valuable fancy color diamonds is a tricky business. "You could probably count on one hand, maybe two hands, those people that are members of the trade of fancy color diamonds that could pick up a fancy color diamond.... Read More...

One day, two diamond mine closures. News that Petra was suspending operations at its Finsch mine, in South Africa, and that Storm Mountain Diamonds was doing likewise at Kao, in Lesotho, broke on the same day, Friday 29 May. Petra's suspension... Read More...

Marilyn Monroe and Catherine the Great - icons separated by two centuries, but each of them still an active brand ambassador . . . for diamonds. This week was the centenary of Marilyn's birth (1 June 1926) - with exhibitions, celebrations and ... Read More...

India now exports more carats of lab growns than it does natural diamonds - 18.84 million carats versus 16.00 million in the year to March 2026*. It sounds like a big deal, but is it really anything more than the industry reaching an inevitable milestone? ... Read More...

Last week's ruling against two retailers who omitted the words "lab grown" from their online diamond ads shouldn't have surprised anyone. But it did. It surprised both the retailers who had been found to have broken advertising rules, and in very different ways.... Read More...

All is not well in the world of diamond mining. Owners of Ekati, in Canada's Northwest Territories filed for insolvency protection last week, just months after agreeing almost $130 million in federal loans. In South Africa, the troubled Ekapa mine is up.... Read More...