10/12/2025
Seven years after the inaugural Great Diamond Debate, the diamond landscape is almost unrecognisable. Natural and laboratory-created stones now share a stage transformed by technology, shifting values, and new rules of engagement. In this edition, leading voices worldwide reveal how the story has evolved – and where it’s heading next!
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25/09/2022
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09/09/2022
• Samuel Ord
Burgundy Diamond Mines (BDM) has announced the discovery of the first fancy colour diamond at the Ellendale project since operations were restarted.
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03/07/2022
• Richard Chiu
A 17.5-carat emerald-cut diamond is expected to fetch €1.5 million ($AU2.3 million) during the Monaco Luxury Week tender by French auction house Artcurial.
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07/11/2021
• Richard Chiu
The latest data from the Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF) indicates blue diamond prices have further increased in price and done so again more than pink diamonds over the third quarter of 2021.
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28/01/2020
• Arabella Roden • Former editor
Swarovski has expanded its lab-created diamond range, introducing a collection of fancy colours at Couture Fashion Week in Paris.
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06/12/2019
A lot has happened since our first Great Diamond Debate - Round I. In the past 12-months, the continuing brouhaha concerning natural versus lab-grown diamonds has become complex, turning into a latter-day ‘land grab’ for the hearts and minds of consumers. Read updates from industry leaders around the world weigh in on the debate.
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08/10/2019
• Arabella Roden • Former editor
As its Argyle Tender continues touring the world, mining company Rio Tinto has publicly revealed the ‘Argyle Dreaming’ jewellery set, designed by Australian jeweller John Calleija.
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23/09/2019
• Arabella Roden • Former editor
Conceptual artist Diemut Strebe has made a 16.78-carat vivid yellow diamond invisible for an exhibit in the New York Stock Exchange.
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30/07/2019
• Arabella Roden • Former editor
The Argyle Mine, in Western Australia, is set to cease operation in 2020 – drastically reducing Australia’s diamond production to less than 1 per cent of its current output.
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07/12/2018
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.
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30/10/2017
• Talia Paz • Staff Journalist
An Australian mining company has secured an agreement to commence operations at its diamond mine located near a site that once produced approximately half of the world’s supply of fancy yellow stones.
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