
Better Diamond Initiative Newsletter June 2017
BDI NEWSLETTER - JUNE 2017 We bring you the round-up of latest news, events, trends and developments in the diamond and jewelry industry...

BDI NEWSLETTER - MAY 2017
Diamonds 1. Why millennials are going for experiences over diamonds? Millennials are going for experiences like destination weddings...

BEYOND BLOODSTAINED GEMS: NEW SCIENCE AND STANDARDS
BEYOND BLOODSTAINED GEMS: NEW SCIENCE AND STANDARDS By Hazel Henderson © 2015 The best way to ensure that your diamond is not...

Leonardo DiCaprio bets on Lab-grown Diamonds
Originally posted Nov. 12, 2015 Leonardo Dicaprio, along with 10 Silicon Valley billionaires, has just upped the ante for Lab-grown...

Ada Diamonds becomes world’s first exclusive high-end jeweler of Lab-grown diamonds
A Silicon Valley based company – Ada Diamonds has vowed to make the world more beautiful using only conflict free, eco-friendly Lab-grown...

Lab-Created Diamonds: An Emerging Movement to Protect People and Places
Originally posted on the Better Diamond Initiative Lab-Created Diamonds: An Emerging Movement to Protect People and Places In 2015, 135...
One of the world’s biggest diamond mines opens — in remote Canada
OTTAWA — De Beers, the company whose name has been synonymous with the diamond trade since its founding in South Africa by Cecil Rhodes...

Diamond Industry: In the rough
News: London-based The Economist is now covering the shift from mining diamonds now losing value to the growing market of science-created...

Ultra-thin slices of diamonds reveal geological processes
By using ultra-thin slices of diamonds, researchers have found the first direct evidence for the formation of diamonds by a process known...
Corruption soils Afghanistan's bright blue treasure
When David Cameron described Afghanistan to the Queen as "fantastically corrupt" over drinks at Buckingham Palace in April it was widely...