The diamond trade remains under pressure, and further contraction of the market is expected this year. Apart from being squeezed by high rough costs and declining polished prices, dealers lament there are too many players chasing the same ...
Tags: Diamond Trade, Diamond
From the get go, the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) chairmanship of the Kimberley Process (KP) had a fair share of controversies as civil society, and a number of member states, expressed their concern with seating the 2016 chair in Dubai. ...
Traders of mined diamonds are divided over how to best respond to the growth of their laboratory-grown counterparts. Last week, India’s Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) became the second exchange to ban trading of man-made diamonds, ...
It’s a long way from New York’s Madison Avenue advertising agencies to Gaborone, but for Botswana a lot is riding on the success of the ad campaign De Beers will launch in the coming weeks. Like oil-exporting countries now ...
Don’t be fooled by the pitch that touts shortage as a reason for investors to plough dollars into the diamond mining sector. In fact, like many other commodities in the world today, the diamond industry is also drowning in a supply ...
Tags: Diamond Supply, diamond mining
The Presidents’ Meeting that took place in Tel Aviv this week highlighted five challenges facing the diamond industry, but the issue of profitability was the most pressing. Constituents of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses ...
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The World Diamond Conference that took place last week in New Delhi, India, created a buzz in the industry that, frankly, needed a bit of a pick-up considering the state of the market. It not often that two heads of state attend a diamond ...
Tags: Diamond Trade, Arts
De Beers is talking about change, urging the trade to be proactive in dealing with a persistently uncertain and volatile market environment. While the company has directed its message to the diamond industry at large, and specifically to ...
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The opening of the Ghaghoo diamond mine, located in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), that took place this week was not only a significant milestone for the mine’s owner Gem Diamonds, but also for the country ...
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Indian government may have been trying hard to acquire a ‘Global Diamond Trading Hub’ status for its diamond industry on one hand but on the other hand if some figures are to be believed, it may be on verge of surrendering its ...
The members of Kimberly Process (KP) who are opposing a proposal to redefine ‘Conflict Diamonds’ once again came under pressure when the World Diamond Council (WDC) recently reiterated its backing for the initiative. It ...
Tags: KP, Conflict Diamonds, Arts&Crafts
The sluggishness in economies of the US and European countries continues to eclipse India’s Gem & Jewellery sector as the annual export-import figures of 2012-13 recently declared by the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council ...
Tags: G&J Sector, jewelry
Production by the world's largest diamond producer De Beers has been consistently going down past many years and as a result now India's DTC (Diamond Trading Company, rough diamond distribution arm of De Beers) sightholders are facing acute ...
India’s Gem & Jewellery (G&J) sector witnessed another volatile year with weaker rupee and sluggish global economy adding more agony to its exports which declined by 17.09% in dollar terms and 4.65 per cent in rupee terms in 2012. ...
With diminishing diamond production in the aging mines globally on one hand and ever-increasing demand world-wide on the other, the industry would struggle to keep pace during 2013 with growing consumption in emerging economies like India ...
Tags: Diamond, Miners, Growing Demand