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...
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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...
Time To Phase Out Cruel, Polluting Gem Mining Worldwide
The mining and selling of “blood diamonds” has been targeted by campaigners for decades and subject to many UN Resolutions addressing...
Slave free chocolate, global value chains and delicious ‘Chocolonely’
Hazel Henderson makes the connection between slave labor and diamond mining! Article Slave labour is still part of some global value...