GIA India Offers Course On Merchandising For Jewellery Professionals
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) is offering a four-day course, Introduction to Merchandising in India. The first batch kicks off on November 21. The course covers the planning, development and implementation…
ALROSA Jan-Oct Sales $3.7B; Demand For Small Goods Grows
Combine rough and polished sales in October realised $ million, with rough accounting for $ million, while polished sales totalled $ million. ALROSA Vice President Yury Okoemov observed that sales…
Sotheby’s To Auction Diamonds Of Courtesan Who Became A Countess
Sotheby’s announced that to mark ten highly successful years of dedicated Noble Jewels sales in Geneva, it will offer at auction, the Donnersmarck Diamonds, a pair of extraordinary fancy intense…
$755,000 De Beers Initiative For Women Micro Enterprises In Botswana
De Beers Group and United Nations Women, in collaboration with Botswana’s Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs, today announced a $755,000 (BWP 8 million), three-year investment in capacity-building programmes…
Rio Tinto Claims Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender Delivers Record Result
Rio Tinto said that its 2017 Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender collection of 58 pink, red and violet diamonds from its Argyle mine, has delivered a record result at its tendered…
Three New Faces In GIA Board As Part Of Routine Rotation
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) welcomed three new members to its board of governors and bid farewell to three who completed their terms at the board’s regularly scheduled November meeting…
ALROSA’s Jubilee Pipe Produces Three More Large Diamonds
ALROSA announced that it had the recovered several large rough diamonds from the Jubilee (Yubileynaya) pipe at its Aikhal Mining and Processing Division in October. The gem-quality diamonds range from…
CIBJO Re-Elects Cavalieri President, Picks 3 VPs As Congress Ends
The 2017 Congress of CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, concluded in Bangkok. The three-day event, which ran from November 5 through 7, brought together some 150 official delegates and around…
Indian State-Controlled NMDC Plans Bid For Bunder Diamond Mine
The National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), India’s state-owned mining behemoth that is country’s largest iron ore producer and exporter, is said to be planning a bid for the Bunder diamond…
Demonetisation, GST Lead To 25% Growth For Tanishq Brand Owner Titan
Titan Co., which is India’s largest jewellery chain retailer, owning the Tanishq brand with retail outlets countrywide, as well as a 62 percent stake in online jeweller Caratlane, expects the…