Antwerp-based diamond supplier Choron Group has agreed to acquire AMC Group, a De Beers sightholder, in a rare case of consolidation in the diamond trade. Choron will integrate AMC’s manufacturing ...

The US Department of State has granted nonprofit group Pact new funding to expand its work in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector in Africa. Pact will use the money to reduce ...

In the coming year, Chow Tai Fook will introduce collections made purely from recycled precious metals, making it the first Chinese jewelry brand to do so, it said. The move comes amid a move by the ...

The New York Magnificent Jewels sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s featured some eye-catching diamonds and gemstones that fetched millions of dollars. We look at the top-grossing lots from those ...

Petra Diamonds has reduced its rough-pricing forecast for the remainder of the fiscal year as it grapples with continued weakness across most of its size categories. The miner now expects prices for ...

Alrosa’s output for the full year dropped 4.6% from 2023 as it cut back amid sanctions, waning demand and depressed rough prices. The Russian miner produced 33 million carats for the year, down from ...

De Beers has stripped around 10 sightholders of their rough-diamond allocations for 2025 and is planning to offer fewer goods overall, market insiders told Rapaport News on Sunday. Those companies ...

The fast-growing estate market is capturing the hearts of eco-conscious shoppers who want to stand out from the masses. As Gen Z and Millennial consumers increasingly eschew machine-made, ...

There is a perfect storm brewing around estate jewelry right now, which is why we’ve dedicated the final Rapaport Magazine issue of 2024 to this exciting segment of the industry. As you will read in ...

Jewelers of America (JA) will present luxury brand Chanel with a GEM Award for High Jewelry Excellence. JA will give the accolade, which it awards to a brand for excellence in high-jewelry design for ...

Tiffany & Co. has acquired a storied piece of its own history with the purchase of an 18-karat gold pocket watch with ties to the 1912 Titanic voyage. The watch, bought at auction in the UK, went for ...

Signet Jewelers is suffering from weaker bridal demand than it expected. But sales of fashion jewelry rose in the third fiscal quarter. Lab-grown diamonds were central to that performance. How is the ...