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...

The price of gold is soaring. And it's not just jewelers and the public who are aware. It's also criminals. So says Scott Guginsky, executive vice president at the Jewelers' Security Alliance (JSA) and a former NYPD Det Sgt who led a team tackling... Read More...

Blue diamonds are rare, green diamonds are rarer still. But diamonds with both a blue and a green hue are virtually unheard of. That's why the upcoming auction of the 5.50-carat fancy vivid blue-green Ocean Dream at Christie's Geneva next month is... Read More...

Telling the time on the Moon isn't so easy. You have two weeks of "day", followed by two weeks of "night", so looking out of the window isn't going to help. You need a reliable wristwatch. The crew of Artemis II were all wearing one - with a specially.... Read More...

It was in March 1967 that diamonds were first discovered in Botswana, at the Orapa kimberlite pipe. They transformed the fortunes of one of Africa's poorest countries almost overnight. It was in January 2026 that rare-earth elements were first discovered... Read More...

It's a masterstroke by Taylor Swift. The entrepreneur, brand builder, influencer, philanthropist (and singer/songwriter) puts diamonds front and center in her latest video, a homage to the late, iconic Elizabeth Taylor and her equally iconic jewelry collection... Read More...