On August 23, 2024, OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) issued two general licenses (No. 103 and No. 104), effectively nullifying the anti-Russian diamond sanctions. These licenses permit the ...

On June 06, 2025, at the annual JCK Las Vegas Show, De Beers CEO Al Cook presented a new jewelry concept called Ombré Desert Diamonds, which, in his opinion, should serve as a tool to optimize the ...

Against this bleak backdrop, the anti-bureaucratic revolution launched by Donald Trump, which includes, among other things, the destruction of parasitic entities like USAID and its derivative ...

In 1982, the enfant terrible of diamond journalism, Edward Jay Epstein, published the now-famous book «The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion», which contained the ...

The first month of 2025 did not bring optimism to participants in the diamond market. The January De Beers sight showed frankly weak results, clearly, the price reductions implemented by the company ...

Until 2018, all researchers studying the history of the diamond market, who in one way or another touched upon the issue of relations between the USSR and «De Beers», considered it necessary to note ...

The history of the diamond market during WWII attracts the attention of not only academic researchers but also many industry experts today. The reasons are clear: historical parallels between the ...

The year 2024 will be remembered by the diamond market participants almost as one of the most nightmarish in its history. Politics rudely interfered with market mechanisms, pushing the industry to the ...

Over the last fifteen years, the role of certification in gemstones has become increasingly important in ensuring that consumers have confidence in what they are buying. The result is that the sector ...

It doesn't take a seasoned trader to understand which asset appears more appealing to investors. Can Cruises and Diamonds Be Considered Competitors? Why not? Both are undeniable luxuries, primarily ...

Under the UAE’s historic second chairmanship of the Kimberley Process, KP Chair Ahmed Bin Sulayem greets our week’s participants at the KP Plenary Opening Session. As part of the UAE’s "Year of ...

Nelson Mandela was sufficiently worried that the 2007 film ‘Blood Diamond’ would negatively impact on those African economies which were reliant on diamond sales, that he reached out to Warner ...