13/05/2025
• Samuel Ord
Late last week, the De Beers Group announced the shutdown of Lightbox Jewelry, the lab-created diamond jewellery brand.
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06/08/2024
• Samuel Ord
An online newspaper in India has published an expose detailing how lab-created diamonds are used to launder money.
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06/08/2024
• Angela Han
Australian diamond expert Garry Holloway has published a new book to debunk the industry's many myths and misconceptions.
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26/04/2024
• Samuel Ord
Anglo American, the parent company of diamond miner De Beers, has confirmed that it has received an unsolicited proposal for a takeover.
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15/04/2024
• Samuel Ord
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against a lab-created diamond company following a complaint about misleading advertising.
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26/03/2024
• Samuel Ord
Nearly half of couples married in the past year selected a lab-created diamond for their engagement ring, according to a recent survey of consumers in the US.
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05/12/2023
• Samuel Ord
The long-awaited next round of sanctions against the Russian diamond industry may also target lab-created diamonds, according to recent media reports.
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21/11/2023
• Samuel Ord
The European Union has submitted a proposal for a 12th round of sanctions against the Russian diamond industry as a punitive response to the conflict in Ukraine.
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24/02/2023
• Samuel Ord
IIA Technologies has won the final round of its patent dispute with De Beers-owned Element Six following a ruling in Singapore’s Court of Appeal, bringing an end to a seven-year process.
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15/06/2022
• Richard Chiu
French luxury conglomerate Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) has acquired a major stake in Israeli lab-grown diamond start-up Lusix, joining other investors in a $US90 million ($AU129.5 million) funding campaign.
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01/06/2022
• Richard Chiu
The proposal to include lab-created diamonds in India’s production-linked incentives scheme looks more likely to succeed after receiving support from Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal.
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05/04/2022
• Jeweller Research
The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) has experienced a tsunami of high-profile member cancellations, all questioning the management, or mismanagement, of Alrosa’s RJC membership. This may just be the tip of the iceberg.
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22/02/2022
• Dr. Thomas Hainschwang
Owing to the rise of synthetic diamonds, the trade in fancy colour stones is no longer clear cut, writes Dr Thomas Hainschwang.
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17/11/2021
• Dr. Thomas Hainschwang
Synthetic diamonds are still a hot topic debated across the industry and the media. How did they become so prominent, and what caused the sudden rise of synthetic diamonds? DR THOMAS HAINSCHWANG explores.
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