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The flooding of synthetic diamonds in the industry is threatening long term sustainability of Rough and Polished.
Bruce Cleaver Head of Strategy and Corporate Affairs said “duds” were threatening profitability. And the impact of synthetic diamonds is more severe when manufactures don’t disclose Synthetics to the market.
APA estimates total market value of synthetic diamonds at $9 billion.
The Surat Diamond Association detected synthetic diamonds in a parcel belonging to two diamond traders in Varachha the world’s largest diamond cutting and polishing centre.
The parcel was sold by Ramesh Mavani a diamond merchant, who had purchased it from one Chandu Sheta.
The Natural Diamond Monitoring Committee is dealing with the investigation.
A committee was set up in 2013 after a huge quantity of synthetic diamonds was found mixed in with natural diamond parcels in Mumbai.
De Beers Group to invest around $3bn over ten years on diamond mining operations in its key South African mine Venetia.
De Beers reported operating profit of $1.4bn USD up 36% year on year, due to higher demand and increased production.
Diamond production was up 5% to 32.6m carats, largely to the production of Debswana the Botswana mine.
Anglo American owns 85% of De Beers
A rare Emerald shape 100.20 ct diamond, originally mined in South Africa by De Beers will showcase the Sotheby’s Auction.
The diamond is one of only six of equal quality ever to be sold at auction, and could sell for $25 million.
The size, quality of the cut and colour make this gem extremely rare because the stone is type IIa stone D colour, internally flawless.
Original polished out of rough weighing over 200 cts.
Fancy Coloured diamonds popularity and price has risen globally, partly driven by Asian investors.
Fancy Orange, Pink, Yellow, and Blue diamonds have appreciated over 150 % according to the Fancy Colour Research Foundation.
Hong Kong and China represent 40% of sales of the fancy coloured diamond sales; this demand of the extremely rare colours is pushing up its prices.
In Recent months Auction houses have sold some of the most valuable natural colour diamonds setting new records for Fancy Orange, Pinks and Blues.
Armed robbers forced customers and staff to the floor, and then ordered one worker to open the jewellery cases.
The robbers made off with an unknown number of diamonds from the Tiffany & Co. store in San Francisco.
Sgt. Monica McDonald said authorities were viewing footage from surveillance cameras in the Westfield San Francisco Centre area, but remains baffled how the robbers pulled off the heist undetected.
No one was hurt during the robbery.
Diamond industry leaders, the (SDA) and the Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) will begin an awareness campaign in the diamond industry. They will focus on the various types of synthetic diamonds, and the identification and disclosure.
Detailed information on the various forms of synthetic diamonds including High Pressure High Temperature and Chemical Vapor Deposition will be provided.
Dealers, Jewellers and valuers in the industry are not able to differentiate between natural and synthetic diamonds. Leading to Lab grown diamonds being mixed in parcels with natural diamonds.
This has made it necessary to educate manufacturers and dealers, and bring awareness to the entire trade.
Natural diamonds will have the term Natural diamond on the certificate, or have a natural diamond report.
Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction sales rose to new records for both the auction houses.
Jewellery sales topped $740 million and $602.5 respectively.
A notable sale was The Graff Vivid Yellow diamond reaching $16.3 million, a record price for any yellow diamond to date.
During 2014 Sotheby’s jewellery sold over 3,900 lots of which 77 items topped $1 million. With an overall sell through rate in was 81 percent.
Gem Diamonds reported that it saw an encouraging end to a very positive year after the fourth quarter of 2014.
CEO Clifford Elphick said the despite a drop in diamond recovery, 25,525 carats down from 28,365 carats in the third quarter. The Letseng mine in Lesotho has continued to perform strongly.
Gem Diamonds remains on track to declare a maiden dividend in March 2015, Based on the positive results and the rise in the price per carat from $2,043 in 2013 to $2,540 in 2014.
Being the ultimate possession for diamond lovers, Natural fancy Orange diamond is extremely rare. To be classified as a fancy orange, there can be no brown in the diamonds colour.
Orange colour in diamond is rarer in nature than most other fancy colours, so rare even the GIA rarely grades an orange diamond.
As a result, orange diamonds that receive pure orange are even rarer than the natural fancy red or blue diamonds. And have therefore set records per carat exceeding any other fancy colour.
Orange is the colour of the true fancy diamond connoisseur.