Moissanite maker Charles & Colvard Ltd. recently introduced its first colorless (D, E, and F grade) moissanite stones. The stones are part of a new collection called Forever One, which joins the company’s Forever Brilliant ...
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Designer Pamela Froman’s new “Wedding Jewels” collection ranges in price from $2,000 to $10,000 retail, with a few pieces reaching as high as $30,000. Click through the slideshow to see six rings from Pamela ...
Limestone is a naturally occurring rock that primarily consists of calcium carbonate. It has been traditionally used as a material for building and construction, and also as a type of flooring. This stone naturally comes in several shades ...
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The jade used since ancient times in China is nephrite, which in its pure state is white but may be green, cream, yellow, brown, gray, black or mottled due to the presence of impurities, chiefly iron compounds. Chinese used the generic term ...
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Canada’s Zinetti Foods has installed Mettler-Toledo Safeline’s new X33 x-ray inspection system to ensure food safety. This next-generation X33 features a new 20-watt x-ray generator compared to the 100-watt generator on ...
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These onyx and gold chandelier earrings worn by Jennifer Aniston at the Golden Globes were just one of the many pairs of drop earrings donned by celebrities Sunday night. Statement earrings were the real stars of Golden Globes on ...
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Norwegian firm Tomra has launched the new Falcon sorter for baby leaf lettuce and spinach industry. The pre-sorting machine uses optical technology, which will enable quick detection of defects and its removal at the initial stage of food ...
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The United States is set to become an even more dominant market for the diamond industry in 2015. In a reversal of trends that have characterized the industry in the past few years, there has been a shift back from east to west as industry ...
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Product sorting specialist Tomra has developed Falcon, a cost-effective pre-sorting machine for the baby leaf lettuce and spinach industry. The new machine is capable of detecting and removing gross defects at the earliest stage ...
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Celebrity couples threw caution to the wind this year, with weddings--and wedding rings--that marked a return to pre-recession extravagance. George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin tied the knot in a former Venetian palazzo while Kim ...
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Acrostic jewelry uses the first letter of each gemstone set in the jewelry to spell out certain messages or terms of endearment. Among the most popular was “regard”--ruby, emerald, garnet, amethyst, ruby and diamond--spelled out ...
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The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry declined 5 percent year on year to 171.35 points in October and the reading slipped about 4 points from September's index. The CPI for watches, meanwhile, rose 2.6 percent to 124.42 points, ...
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Baltimore--Niche magazine has named the finalists for its 2015 awards for excellence in fine craft, which includes various categories for jewelry design. Judging is based on three main criteria: technical excellence in both surface ...
The recent re-launch of the CanadaMark hallmark by Dominion Diamond Corporation is designed to enhance the company’s status as Canada’s primary diamond mining company. While CanadaMark is essentially a business-to-business (B2B) ...
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The JA New York Special Delivery show, designed as a pre-holiday cash-and-carry for retailers, closed Tuesday at the Javits center after three days of buying and selling. A number of retailers in attendance who spoke with National ...
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