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August Diamonds Newsletter

Diamond cut tips and trends: Find the perfect wedding band for diamond engagement ring
Pokoski says the wedding couple’s shopping experience should be fun, exciting and done with confidence. read Pokoski tips for buying the right diamond cut wedding band

Diamonds real estate investment

IF you think the idea of investing in diamonds is a bit cliched, think again. The sparkling stones still attract bigger investment interest than arguably any other collectable.

Diamonds investment at Sotheby's Auction: Rare Blue Six-Carat Diamond Bidding War Breaks 20-Year-Old Record  
. It was bought by Moussaieff Jewellers known for investing in expensive color stones.

Oldest Diamond find could shed light on early Earth

Gems found in Western Australia are more than 4 billion years old
A transmission light image of Jack Hills zircons from Australia shows an angular diamond inclusion. read oldest diamond

"Diamonds on My Neck," Beyonce Lands Perfume Deal with Armani Diamonds  

Damien Hirst Seeks $99 Million for Diamonds Skull With 8,601 Diamonds. Encrusted skull Will Be Most Expensive Work Of Art

Blue Nile  
  sea of diamonds 
  diagio diamonds

antique white gold diamond rings
Dying art thrives in Edgewater
Edgewater Jewelers sells custom jewelry designs

ABN AMRO stolen diamonds

digg a diamond Eight-year-old Twin Boys Find 2.50 Carat Diamond

 Synthetic diamonds the key? See you beloved death in a diamond ??

One person can be produced into 100 diamonds, explains the company's website. According to the website, LifeGem created Diamonds have the same qualities as those available at Tiffany's.

Belgium Alrosa diamond What is your opinion of Russian-Belgian cooperation on the diamond market? What would you say about Alrosa’s plans to increase exports to your country?

Belgium Alrosa diamonds Guy Verhofstadt ( Belgium prime minister): It’s been a very long-standing and very fruitful cooperation. We are the main market for Alrosa and we want to buy as many diamonds as possible from Alrosa.

Custom diamonds ceased: Federal agents have arrested two men on charges they smuggled 11,000 carats worth of rough diamonds into the country in violation of a law intended to prevent trade in conflict diamonds that have been used to fund wars in Africa, officials said.

"That's the beauty there really is no difference."

read: Lab diamonds.

 gem stone silver ring she lost long ago, a woman regains a treasured gift - and with it, the assurance that everything, finally, will be okay.

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Surat black market Diamonds' sparkle still has heavy price

SURAT, INDIA - Such is its standing in the international diamond industry, India is expected to be chosen by the United Nations to take over the Kimberley Process - an initiative to stop the trade in African blood diamonds - from the European Union. hardest diamond: This diamond is about 2.5 mm high and was grown in about a day on top of a natural diamond (the lowest layer)

Black diamonds born in space

a diamond is forever

People who buy people diamonds know it will thrill the pants (figuratively or not) off the giftee, and are insecure in their ability to thrill those pants off some other way. People who ask for diamonds are insecure enough to want a demonstration of affection that words or useful presents like motor scooters can’t provide.

princess cut diamonds

AGS Laboratories announced two new service enhancements for larger diamonds. The Lab will now expedite diamonds weighing 7.00 carats and above at no extra charge, and will provide grading results within one business day. Diamonds weighing 3.00 to 6.99 carats will be expedited at no extra charge, and the Lab will provide grading results within three business days.

CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: VIEWPOINT - Canada loose diamonds conflict

New York diamond street US woman sparkle in diamonds street after getting engaged (DPA)

WASHINGTON - In the windows of the jewellery shops on New York City’s 47th Street diamond street near the high-end shopping mile along Fifth Avenue the most precious of precious stones twinkle as if in competition with one another.

Jewelry Exchange Acquires the Sirocco Diamond :

Bill Doddridge has built the Jewelry Exchange into a $130 million business by doing "the simplest, most logical thing."

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80 Carat Tanzania Diamond Found by local miner

A local miner in Tanzania recently found an 80 carat diamond on Douglas Lake Minerals Inc.’s newly acquired Magembe Diamond Property. The Canada-based diamond company’s CEO, Harp Sangha, said the discovery is a “good news, bad news story.”...

With this diamond engagement ring...

The glitter of diamonds engagement rings competes with the twinkling of holiday lights. Twenty-six percent of all engagements take place during the holiday season.
There are four words heard more often this time of year than any other season

In a gesture of love - Dean McDermott has proposed for the second time to wife Spelling Tori engagement ring. “We sat on a bench overlooking the lake and I gave Tori her last Christmas present.”

Christmas Diamond cake ??

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Chameleon Diamonds

I have heard about rare colored diamonds before but I was recently introduced to  the concept of chameleon diamonds. 
The chameleon is an extremely rare stone, it  has a stable color of greenish yellow but then they can change color

Moscow Diamond Bourse Celebrates WFDB Membership

Possibility of a New Las Vegas Diamonds Exchange 

The team from the World Jewelry Center project in Las Vegas is in Israel trying to drum up potential clients for its new jewelry complex set to open in 2010

Nicole Richie difficult Diamonds time
Nicole Richie wrote "The thruth about Diamonds" about fame, drugs, and romance  but was herself arrested at 1:45 a.m. on Monday december11, 2006 for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol, authorities said.

'A Cut Above' (ACA) Princess Cut Diamonds direct light performance continues to set standards in the global diamond market, the same company also created "dreams of Africa" Diamonds for Life: Not Blood

Antwerp Diamond Dealer Death during raid. 
Search of premises not stopped.Diamond business closed down till Tuesday in solidarity.

 Antwerp friday 8 december 2006 by Danny Diamonds Yesterday morning at 7:32 the BelgianJustice came into the locals of a 46 years old dealer Miki M. from  the diamond company Beltaj, two minutes later Miki M. died from a heart attack. The researcher didn't stop to work, but continued to work after the body of the death diamond dealer was taken away... read Antwerp Diamond Dealer Death

replica tiffany jewlery Designer replica goes out on strand 

It’s probably one of the most famous pearl necklaces ever – the multistrand choker worn by Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany's.” Natalie Portman is wearing a replica of it on the cover of last month’s Harper's Bazaar. read tiffany & ANTIQUE FESTIVAL OFFERS A CHANCE TO BUY UNIQUE GIFTS and replica tiffany jewlery AWAY FROM HOLIDAY CROWDS

Zales Rebuilding Underway, But the Numbers Are Slow to Come

Zale Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Betsy Burton and her team – veterans and newcomers – have their work cut out for them. As the third CEO in six years, her job is to take a consistently underperforming company lacking a coherent strategy and remold it into a sleek, efficient, competitive zales jewelry.    

New movie puts conflict carat diamonds stick in the spotlight .A woman tries on a diamond ring at the Clay Pot jewelry store in New York. This holiday season some diamond retailers say they are seeing heightened consumer concern about conflict diamonds, the gems mined in war zones that are sold to fund armed conflict. read The carat and the stick

'Blood Diamond' shows how industry leaders turned a blind eye to the atrocities funded by their policies. The sordid diamonds history behind Africa's conflict 

World Diamond Council : Development, implementation and oversight of a tracking system for the export and import of rough diamonds to prevent the exploitation of diamonds for illicit purposes such as war and inhumane acts.

diamond facts Diamond Economic impact fact. Generating Revenues from conflict free diamonds

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PETRA DIAMONDS will cut and polish its own diamonds in South Africa as part of a drive to push up revenue at a time when African governments are pushing for more value to be added to raw materials produced in their countries.

The Rapaport Diamond prices list is usually in hands of a dealer

Germanium diamonds Not since the use of germanium in the first transistor radios and the discovery of its crucial role in semiconductor research more than 50 years ago has the study of this element garnered so much attention.
The usual form of germanium has the same structure as a diamond, and this new form has a beautiful and unique “cage” structure. 

Imperfections spark sapphires creativity at Dupuis auction

Many of the jewels offered in Monday's event are by venerable houses such as Harry Winston, Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier and Tiffany & Co., and are what would conventionally be thought of as beautiful gems.

Africa diamond trade unites 

Diamond producing African countries have formed an association in order to strengthen their influence over the diamond industry.

Angola Diamonds could become world's biggest producer according to Worldbank

The World Bank predicts that the Angolan economy will record in the next twenty years a production boost in diamonds that can turn the country into the world's biggest producer of this mineral. 
    related: Angolan diamond war funds obtained through the trade in blood diamonds helped finance a 27-year civil war, which ended four years ago
                Angola diamond licences 19,000 diamond mining companies London - Angola has issued diamond mining licences to 19 000 companies out of 28 000 who applied when the country recently liberalised its mining laws, the Antwerp World Diamond Council reports in its November 21 'Antwerp Facets'.

 Matrix Diamond Technology, which applies patented 3-D scanner technology and other unique applications to determine the exact purity of a diamond, has been launched in Antwerp.

Crater of Diamonds  

Park is a jewel of a place Sunshine 5.47-carat canary yellow gem of unusual clarity found today at crater of diamonds. For $6, you can hunt for precious gems. One or two find something most days.

I must tell you that I am impressed to see that the business is really strong in Antwerp for the GOOD things, like this603 carats Lesotho promise, that will bring some money back to this poor African country. This was also the reason they called it the Lesotho promise. It sold for more than 12 millions dollars in Antwerp, and when cut in pieces it will bring 20 millions of dollars. Some of this money will come back through the taxes back to Lesotho. read our last newsletter October 06 records 

diamonds stolen Belgium Over 200 Pieces of Jewelry Stolen in Belgium 
Over 200 pieces of antique and modern jewelry were stolen on August 12, 2006 from the ART NOCTURNE Fair in Knokke Belgium. 

diamond switch Diamond Thief Makes Expensive Exchange at Local Jewelry Store  The store, and police, are asking for your help in finding the gem worth tens of thousands of dollars

The largest diamond found for more than a decade has been sold in Antwerp for 12,360,000 USD.

Antwerp diamonds history Antwerp has been very prominent in diamond cutting for five hundred years—the first written mention of diamond cutting is in Antwerp in 1550. Located in the Flemish section of the country, Antwerp is on the northwest coast of Belgium. In the very early years of European development, Antwerp was over-shadowed by Brugge in terms of international trading, but became the absolute center of Belgian trading when Brugge was struck by the plague. 

Changing Diamond colors

High Pressure/High Temperature (HPHT) equipment 
from Sundance to change diamond colors.

AGTA stolen. Pres. Robbed of Jewelry Worth Millions 

The American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) revealed details of the million dollar robbery which resulted in the sudden three month leave of absence of AGTA president, Richard Krementz, beginning July 17, 2006. 

Sea of Diamonds to Outpace Metals as Scarcity, Asia Sales Boost Prices

 
A Third person is detained in the story related to MORE than 220 objects worth an estimated $100 million (£50 million) that  have been stolen from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. 

Vol Hermitage (en français) 5 millions de dollars de joaillerie ont disparu du Musée de l'Ermitage

read: June Global Polished Diamond Prices Show Modest Gain

Surat diamonds association set to steal Antwerp’s dazzle

Call it ironic. Diamond traders in Surat operate from the Hira Bourse in a building called the Belgium Tower, right next to Belgium Square. But most of them don’t know, or probably don’t care, that their city is set to overtake the Belgian city of Antwerp as the diamond processing centre of the world....

diamond clubs list WFDB Secretary-General's Offices and Diamond IDMA around the world

diamonds mine map 

west diamonds New DiCaprio Film Rattles west Diamond Industry

The Blood Diamond A farmer, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.

Kimberley Process : Speech: Oppenheimer World Diamond Congress Gala ...The WDC has, since its inception in 2000, been the public face of the diamond industry in the exhaustive negotiations with the United Nations, national governments and civil society in the creation of the Kimberley Process. This Process, mandated by the United Nations General Assembly and endorsed by the Security Council, is an international Agreement (between some 70 nations, NGOs representing over 100 advocacy groups and the WDC on behalf of us all) which, through its Certification Scheme, ensures that all rough diamond trading between participant countries is properly recorded, cross-checked and verifiable....

Gitanjali to Offer Loose Diamonds index, Diamond Price Index to Consumers

Very Large synthetic diamonds Produced Very Fast at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory

Coloured diamonds :
America's Gemisis poses a diamond threat to De Beers.
Everyone is walking very carefully at present, but this Wednesday’s presentation in Johannesburg underscored the major changes that technology poses to the miners who dig diamonds out of the earth.

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Collectors Universe's Diamond Grading Unit GCAL Launches New Service for Diamond Trading Company Sightholders

The best selling item from the Kroc estate included a fancy intense yellow, VS1 diamond pendant necklace of 42.13 carats, by Harry Winston ($48,200 per carat) that had an estimate of $1,000,000 -1,500,000 but sold for $2,032,000 to a private European buyer.

engagement rings

Felicia Rodriguez was given a promise ring by her boyfriend Billy Green, a senior at the Naval Academy, to symbolize their "renewed commitment" to one another.

Tolkowsky ideal cut

In 1919 a young mathematician, Marcel Tolkowsky, wrote a Masters thesis on the proportions for round brilliant cut diamonds. This became the basis for what is now known as the “Ideal Cut".

A South Africa diamond diamond is forever

IN 1870, an enterprising 17-year-old English lad, Cecil Rhodes, arrived in South Africa in the midst of “New Rush” diamond fever.

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• Hoge Raad Diamant HRD Antwerp: Whose Voice Will Be Heard and Who's in Charge? The motto of Belgium might be ‘L'union Fait la Force’, meaning strength lies in unity, but theses days Antwerp seems anything but united, and it's harming its strength. Battles in and around the city’s diamond umbrella organization, the Hoge Raad voor Diamant (HRD), reached a pinnacle last week. New York Antwerp
• Diamond Life The Fading World of Middlemen In New York's Diamond District Like many New Yorkers, I've always been mystified by the block of 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, that small section of Manhattan known as the Diamond District. ..
• Surat takes the shine off Antwerp SURAT: This dazzling city has wrested a major part of the $22-million diamond cutting and polishing business of the world's diamond capital — Antwerp.  From 25,000 diamond polishing workers that Antwerp had in the 1970s, the figure has now dwindled to barely 1,000. The reason for this slide is the shift of business to Surat which offers cheap labour. 

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