This month’s twin Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) trade shows are set to form the world’s largest annual jewellery marketplace once again, featuring more than 46,000 exhibitors from 50 countries.   [read...]

A rare opal sourced from the Indonesian island of Java has gemmologists speculating after it was discovered the gemstone had entombed an insect.   [read...]

Lion Brands, a distributor of high-end Swiss watches, suddenly closed its business last week. Phone calls to the Melbourne head office on Friday were met with a recorded message saying, “This number is no longer in service and you cannot leave a message.”   [read...]

The JAA’s new audit firm has called its 2018 Financial Statements into question and also identified a significant error in last year’s financial report to members.   [read...]

Six months after De Beer’s surprised the international jewellery industry by entering the synthetic diamond market, we explore whether the decision was a strategic move to ensure competitor innovation did not become blanket disruption or whether De Beers finally saw the light and realised lab-grown diamonds are not a menace after all?

Perhaps it’s even a little bit of both, or perhaps it doesn’t really matter anyway!

Our Great Diamond Debate might help you decide.   [read...]