BNR’s Big Five
De diamant is het symbool van luxe en exclusiviteit, maar de vraag naar diamanten verandert snel. In India en China worden goedkopere stenen geslepen, en in laboratoria worden diamanten gemaakt die bijna niet meer van echt te onderscheiden zijn. Taxateur Tali Goldstoff haalt de echte briljanten eruit en plakt er een prijskaartje op.
Luister op dinsdag 11 juni om 10.00 uur live naar BNR’s Big Five van de Diamanthandel met Tali Goldstoff.
Would the boss of the world’s best known diamond company consider buying his wife a sparkler that had been grown in a lab?
Read moreIn France at least, the terms ‘laboratory diamond’ and ‘cultivated diamond’ (diamant de culture) are no longer acceptable
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Gemological Science International (GSI) has issued a warning to the trade after coming across a “notable increase” in jewelry set with pink, yellow and brown lab-grown diamonds posing as natural.
Read moreRAPAPORT PRESS RELEASE, February 6, 2024, Las Vegas… Diamond sales were sluggish in January amid limited restocking following the holiday season.
Read moreCAPE TOWN, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Diamond producers De Beers, a unit of miner Anglo American (AAL.L) , opens new tab, and Botswana’s state-owned Okavango Diamond Company asked the Group of Seven (G7) to consider unintended consequences as the block prepares to impose the second phase of a ban on Russian diamonds, concerned that African prices would be hugely inflated.
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Production of rough diamonds at the company’s De Beers unit fell 8% to 31.9 million carats in 2023
Read moreThe head of Audemars Piguet said sales at the Swiss luxury watch brand are headed for another record in 2023 as demand for its pricey timepieces remains strong.
Read moreDiamond Prices Are in Free Fall in One Key Corner of the Market
De Beers has been forced to slash prices aggressively for one of its benchmark products.
Read moreLunda Norte Friday, 01 September De 2023 21h06
Dundo – The geological-mining operations carried out in some mines of Angola have confirmed that there are around 810 million carats of diamonds in reserves.
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MUMBAI: A report has flagged that not all lab-grown diamonds are sustainable and that they need tremendous amounts of energy—requiring a temperature close to 20% of that of the sun’s surface—for production
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