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AngloGold produces 696Koz in Q3, reaffirms full-year guidance
AngloGold Ashanti produced 696,000 ounces of gold in the third quarter of 2026, bringing year-to-date group production to almost 2,2 million ounces.
Yesterday
Luxury watches seized in high-profile criminal case up for auction in Singapore
An auction of confiscated timepieces will take place in Singapore. The online sale, titled Fine Watches, Part One, hosted by the Singaporean auction house Hotlotz from November 9 to 29, will feature watches from brands including Patek Philippe, Vacheron...
Yesterday
Gem Resources appoints Robert Nigel Chapman as CEO, Bernard Olivier moves to non-executive role
LSE-listed Gem Resources has appointed Robert Nigel Chapman as chief executive and executive director, effective November 6.
Yesterday
Moscow hosts new lapidary and jewellery art exhibition
The Masters of Russia: Symphony of Form exhibition, a part of Yuri Vasilenko’s Masters of Russia Project, is being held at the Moscow Museum of Time and Clocks with an entire spectrum of jewellery and lapidary works. For the first time, the event is...
Yesterday
ALROSA announces discovery of Russia’s first blue diamond
ALROSA has reported the discovery of a rare, gem-quality, Type IIb blue diamond weighing 2.74 carats, as it commenced the cutting and polishing process. This is the first diamond of this kind ever unearthed in Russia.
Yesterday
Why is China buying up gold?
28 october 2026
(https://www.aljazeera.com) - The People’s Bank of China reported buying gold for a 23rd consecutive month in September, when the country’s central bank also made its largest monthly purchase in nearly three years. The sustained buying points to a longer-term effort to spread risk associated with its vast reserves, experts say.
Supply glut, lab-grown alternatives: What’s behind the fall of diamond prices to record lows
26 october 2026
(https://www.cnbc.com) - Natural diamonds have lost more than half of their value over the past five years. On average, a 1-carat stone now goes for $3,898, or 51% less than its average price of $8,007 in 2021, data from diamond trading platform Rapaport Group shows. The Diamond Standard Index, which tracks prices of so-called investment-grade diamonds, hit 2,490 in early August — its lowest level ever. At the end of September, it was hovering just north of 2,500.
A “new De Beers” won’t rescue the diamond industry. Nor should it
23 october 2026
(https://thejewelrywire.substack.com) - The diamond industry wants to speak with a single voice. Maybe that’s the problem. In my previous article for The Jewelry Wire, I proposed an independent Global Diamond Demand Authority—a single body responsible for creating and sustaining consumer desire for natural diamonds.
But that raises a question: Is a single mouthpiece a good thing? Trade analyst Avi Krawitz has argued that category marketing cannot, on its own, revive demand the way it once did. Today’s consumers are “fragmented, values-driven, and often skeptical,” and seek marketing that they resonate with emotionally.
Scientists Discover a New Cousin of Diamond That Was Thought To Exist Only in Theory
22 october 2026
(https://scitechdaily.com) - A shimmering diamond represents one of carbon’s most familiar forms. Scientists have now created a new, porous, diamond-like structure that reveals another surprising way carbon atoms can arrange themselves.
Was the Bottom Reached? Lab-Grown Wholesale Prices Rise in Q3 2026
19 october 2026
(https://www.edahngolan.com) - Signs of stabilization that emerged in the second quarter became more pronounced in Q3. Lab-grown diamond wholesale prices increased across several key categories, suggesting that the market may be approaching a floor after years of steep price declines.
