10 hours ago
• Callum Glennen
German police have detained three people from a Lebanese ‘crime family’ suspected of stealing priceless jewellery from a Dresden museum in 2019.
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11 hours ago
• Callum Glennen
WD Lab Grown Diamonds and the Carnegie Institute of Washington have settled their legal battle with Pure Grown Diamonds and IIa Technologies over lab-grown diamond patents.
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27/11/2020
• Arabella Roden • Assistant Editor
A rare collection of five blue diamonds has been sold for more than $US40 million, while a 14.83-carat stone named ‘The Spirit of the Rose’ has broken the per-carat price record for a purplish-pink diamond.
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27/11/2020
• Arabella Roden • Assistant Editor
Auckland police have arrested a 44-year-old man in relation to a dramatic jewellery store break-in that took place in the Ponsonby area on 23 September.
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26/11/2020
• Callum Glennen
Boasting a new format, the 2020 Nationwide Jewellers Apprentice of the Year awards have given Australia and New Zealand’s emerging jewellers the chance to demonstrate their talent.
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25/11/2020
Karl Kachami, one of the two defendants at the centre of the multi-million-dollar robbery of Melbourne Gold Company (MGC), has been jailed for four years.
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22/11/2020
• Martin Foster
It was probably no surprise that the Geneva Watches & Wonders event scheduled for April 2021 has been cancelled. Formerly known as Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, it will mean that the show will not have taken place for two years given that this year’s event was also cancelled earlier this year.
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19/11/2020
• Arabella Roden • Assistant Editor
A new report exploring the restructuring of the diamond trade over the course of 2019 and 2020 has been published, delving into the macroeconomic and industry-specific factors influencing the trade from mine to market.
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17/11/2020
• Arabella Roden • Assistant Editor
Ryan Guy, a jewellery apprentice with Gemcraft Australia, has won the top prize at the TAFE Queensland Jewellery Apprentice of the Year Awards.
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12/11/2020
• Arabella Roden • Assistant Editor
Pandora Jewelry has released its 2020 holiday season advertisement featuring its celebrity spokespeople, including Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown.
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12/11/2020
• Arabella Roden • Assistant Editor
French fashion house Louis Vuitton has acquired a 549-carat stone unearthed at the Karowe Mine in Botswana – 10 months after purchasing the 1,758-carat Sewelô diamond, which was mined at the same site.
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11/11/2020
• Arabella Roden • Assistant Editor
The Ipswich branch of family-owned Pascoe Jewellers, which had been operating in the Queensland city for two decades, will permanently close on Christmas Eve.
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11/11/2020
• Arabella Roden • Assistant Editor
The source of more than 90 per cent of the world’s pink diamonds, the Argyle Mine in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, has been permanently closed by owner Rio Tinto after more than 30 years of operation.
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11/11/2020
• Arabella Roden • Assistant Editor
One of the world’s largest black opals, which has been named ‘The Pacific’, is due to be auctioned in Sydney this month.
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09/11/2020
• Jeweller Research
Pandora’s launch last month of a limited-edition range of Star Wars-themed jewellery, designed in partnership with production company Lucasfilm, could be helping boost its share price on the Nasdaq Copenhagen.
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