July 5, 2017
BDI NEWSLETTER - JUNE 2017
We bring you the round-up of latest news, events, trends and developments in the diamond and jewelry industry
Lab-grown Diamonds
1. MiaDonna Recognised as one of 100 fastest growing private companies in Oregon
MiaDonna, a major retailer...
June 6, 2017
Diamonds
1. Why millennials are going for experiences over diamonds?
Millennials are going for experiences like destination weddings and vacations over diamonds. They are also wooed by non-conventional stones and other luxury items instead of diamonds. An analy...
April 5, 2017
BEYOND BLOODSTAINED GEMS: NEW SCIENCE AND STANDARDS
By Hazel Henderson © 2015
The best way to ensure that your diamond is not bloodstained from conflicts is to buy an identical gem created by human science. These can be indistinguishable from diamonds mined from the Ear...
October 17, 2016
Originally posted Nov. 12, 2015
Leonardo Dicaprio, along with 10 Silicon Valley billionaires, has just upped the ante for Lab-grown Diamonds in the $100 Bn Diamond Industry by proudly investing in a California based startup, Diamond Foundry.
Diamond Foundry was foun...
October 4, 2016
A Silicon Valley based company – Ada Diamonds has vowed to make the world more beautiful using only conflict free, eco-friendly Lab-grown diamonds. It believes that modern technology, art and superior craftsmanship will be the future of diamond industry.
A husband-wife...
September 22, 2016
Originally posted on the Better Diamond Initiative
Lab-Created Diamonds: An Emerging Movement to Protect People and Places
In 2015, 135 million carats of diamonds were mined. In that same time period, children as young as 11 years old worked alongside adults (Amnesty In...
September 21, 2016
OTTAWA — De Beers, the company whose name has been synonymous with the diamond trade since its founding in South Africa by Cecil Rhodes in the 1880s, is opening the world’s largest new diamond mine in a decade —in Canada’s Far North.
The $1 billion Gahcho Kué mine becom...
July 6, 2016
News: London-based The Economist is now covering the shift from mining diamonds now losing value to the growing market of science-created diamonds, including Leonardo DiCaprio's Diamond Foundry! Read on.
The diamond industry: In the rough
June 21, 2016
By using ultra-thin slices of diamonds, researchers have found the first direct evidence for the formation of diamonds by a process known as redox freezing. In
this process, carbonate melts crystallize to form diamond.
June 6, 2016
When David Cameron described Afghanistan to the Queen as "fantastically corrupt" over drinks at Buckingham Palace in April it was widely regarded as a gaffe. But the British prime minister was not wrong.
Afghanistan ranks a woeful 166th out of 168 countries in Transpare...
May 27, 2016
The mining and selling of “blood diamonds” has been targeted by campaigners for decades and subject to many UN Resolutions addressing conflict diamonds mentioned in my previous article “Beyond Bloodstained Gems: New Science and Standards”. Even after the diamond carte...
May 26, 2016
Hazel Henderson makes the connection between slave labor and diamond mining!
Article
Slave labour is still part of some global value chains. Chocolate is an example. It can be shown and measured that in such a case but also in other cases increases in trade can actuall...
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