I’ve always been a fan of laser inscription for diamonds as a way if identifying them for the average buyer. But the cool people over at Gemory have taken the process a step further and crossed over from the utilitarian in to the way cool.You can now have you diamond inscribd with as many [...]

If you bought a diamond between January 1, 1994, and March 31, 2006, you may be eligible for a piece of the $295 million settlement with DeBeers. The settlement is part of an agreement entered in to by DeBeers for anticompetitive practices while not admitting any wrong doing.
While some people are saying that you [...]

BetterThanDiamond plans to double production of its Takara lab-grown yellow diamonds in 2008 due to higher demand for the stones.
“We were quite surprised at the upswing in demand for our larger canary yellow diamonds in December,” said BetterThanDiamond.com president Less Wright. “We’ve been cutting and distributing lab grown yellow diamonds since 2002, and this was [...]

Happy New Year everyone, and what a great way to welcome 2008. Lucy, more affectionately known as BPM 37093 to her close friends, is roughly ten billion trillion trillion carats and measures about 4,000 kilometers in diameter. I bet she looses at least 30% of her weight when she’s finally cut and polished.
Discovered by Travis [...]

I can’t believe I missed this one. It did happen before I started the blog, so I’ll blame that for now, but this is a very cool way to raise money for the Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Bruster’s waffle cone masterpiece was created by diamond manufacturer, Lazare Kaplan International Inc., and consists of nearly 20 troy [...]

The Crater of Diamonds State Park produced its 1000′th diamond for the year when Denis Tyrrell found a rectangular, 3.82ct, light brown diamond. It marks the 131st diamond he has found in the nine months he has spent digging at the park.
This is the first time that the park has produced 1000 diamonds in a [...]

DeBeers holds an annual competition design to promote diamond jewelry. This year’s competition for the ‘Best New Piece of Diamond Jewelry of 2007′ with the theme ‘Diamonds-Nature’s Miracle’ was won by the world’s largest diamond jewelry manufacturing company, Rosy Blue.
The winning design, Flotz Brilliance in Air, is inspired by water droplets shimmering on a sunlit [...]

I was reading a great article by Chaim Even-Zohar about the Kimberly Process and how reasonably simply it is to circumvent.
Finished jewelry is not subject to the Kimberly Process and documentation. As it should be. Can you imagine having to carry your Kimberly paperwork everywhere you go when you travel just to prove that you [...]