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25 Nov

Aren’t your lips worth $62,000?

Seriously, you pamper every other part of your body, why not your lips?
French cosmetics house Guerlain - lipstick innovators since the 1920s - launches KissKiss Gold and Diamonds - a $62,000 lip color wrapped in a 110-gram, 18-karat gold tube encrusted with 199 conflict-free diamonds weighing 2.2 carats, rubies and emeralds. It can be custom-engraved [...]

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15 Nov

Stick some diamonds on it! Yeah, that’s cool.

I need to jazz up my $600 i-Phone and covering it with diamonds seems like a cool way to go.
Designed by Alexander Amosu, the London based mobile entrepreneur, the a limited edition iPhone with 420 diamonds totaling 5.65 carats set in 18k white or yellow gold. The phone is available with a choice of white, [...]

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06 Nov

Crater of Diamonds keeps cranking them out

Chad Johnson, who moved to Murfreesboro in February, nearly tossed a 4.38 carat, tea colored diamond. Johnson stowed his equipment after a weekend of sifting for diamonds and didn’t notice the cube shaped diamond until Monday.
The diamond, making approximately 80 that he has found since moving to Arkansas, is the second largest found this year. [...]

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26 Oct

Blue Nile sells $1.5million diamond

Blue Nile received a call in June on their customer service line. At the other end a buyer requested a diamond of over 10 carats. A diamond about the size of a penny. Three days later, after diverting the diamond from a trip to Italy, and being delivered in a Brink’s truck, the customer had [...]

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23 Oct

Quebec may get first diamond mine

An independent valuation of a bulk sample of diamonds dug from the Renard project, owned by Stornoway Diamond Corp., said most of the gems could be worth more than $100 (U.S.) a carat.
Eira Thomas, Stornoway’s chief executive officer, said the valuation of the bulk sample marks a key milestone for Renard, which is believed [...]

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19 Oct

Diamond exploration in Australia plummets

The hunt for diamonds in Australia has plummeted, despite a world shortage, and increasing prices. It is thought just five companies are actively looking for diamonds, although Australian explorers are flocking overseas to look in Africa and elsewhere.
Dr Kevin Wills, from Flinders Diamonds, says part of the problem is government red tape, and a lack [...]

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15 Oct

De Beers is calling for the diamond trade to support African polishing industry

Gareth Penny, De Beers Group managing director, called on diamond traders in Europe, the U.S. and Israel to back Africa’s efforts to cut and polish its own gemstones.
“We don’t embrace this out of some misguided enthusiasm or altruism, we embrace it because it makes good business sense and because it’s the right thing to do,” [...]

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11 Oct

Kimberley Diamonds finds pink diamond

Kimberley Diamond Co NL has discovered the first pink diamond at its Ellendale project in Western Australia.
The rare diamond weighs in at 1.58 carats and has an indicative value of at least $US20,000 per carat in the rough.
When polished, its value increases to $US30,000 to $US40,000 per carat.
Kimberley Diamond has also discovered a 10 carat [...]

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