From affordability to innovation, lab-grown diamonds are reshaping fine jewelry as we know it ...
GABORONE, Botswana -- Botswana says one of the largest diamonds ever found has been unearthed at one of its mines and will be put on show on Thursday. The Botswana government believes the huge ...
As millennials turn to lab-grown diamonds for ethical and environmental reasons, traditional diamond miners are pushing back with claims that synthetic diamond creation is much more carbon intensive.
PHILADELPHIA — Years before Jasmine Ma and her fiancé, Ricky Chen, stepped foot into a jewelry store — before they had even talked seriously about marriage — Ma made one thing clear: She didn’t want a ...
Diamond giant De Beers slashed the price of its precious solitaires amid plunging sales as bargain-hunting fiancées increasingly opt for cheaper lab-grown gems. Among De Beers’ larger stones, one ...
Lauren Priori, who opened L. Priori Jewelry in Philadelphia seven years ago, has seen an increase in demand for lab-grown diamonds. She is wearing a pear-shaped lab diamond on the left of her finger ...
Her now-husband, Jakob Materna, proposed in May 2023 with a nearly 2-carat emerald-cut lab-grown diamond set high on a white ...
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De Beers sale drags in diamond doldrums

Even with its legendary image of glitz and glamour, diamond icon De Beers has struggled to attract a buyer after nearly two years on a market dulled by falling prices and the allure of lab-grown gems.
On August 21, Lucara Diamond Corp. announced their discovery of a 2,492-carat diamond unearthed in a mine in Botswana. At that size, the precious stone is said to be the second largest rough diamond ...
Pandora, the world's largest jewelry maker, is done with diamonds - at least if they are sourced from the ground. The company announced Tuesday that it will no longer use mined diamonds, instead only ...
Millions of years ago, precious gem stones from the heart of southern Africa washed westward along the Orange River and emptied into the Atlantic Ocean. While some swept up on the beaches along the ...
Blood diamonds are a dark reality in the diamond industry. Blood diamonds, or conflict diamonds, are mined in war-torn countries, where the profits from their sale are often used to finance violent ...