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Dual diamond trade record: Dubai realises $41.7B from 359.5M carats in 2025
Dubai recorded $41.7 billion in diamond trade from 359.5 million carats in 2025, setting new records in both value and volume in the same year for the first time, the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) highlighted as it convened the seventh...
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DMCC forms education partnership with HRD Antwerp
The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) has announced a new education partnership between the Dubai Design Academy and HRD Antwerp, Europe’s leading authority in diamond and jewellery grading, to expand access to internationally recognized...
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Rio Tinto’s diamond production drops by 68% following Diavik closure
Rio Tinto’s diamond production fell by 68% during the first nine months of 2026. This decline follows the closure of the Diavik mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories this March after 23 years of operation due to its depletion.
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Ghana sets 2030 deadline to end raw mineral exports
Ghana's President John Mahama has set a target to halt all exports of unprocessed minerals by the end of the decade, as the West African nation seeks to capture more economic value from its natural resources, African Business has reported.
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A rare 9-carat pink diamond goes on display after 100 years of its theft
A rare nine-carat pink diamond, stolen from a French château nearly 100 years ago, has been unveiled to the public for the first time.
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Holiday Sociology
07 february 2008
On Christmas Eve discussion of the Russian citizen’s buying mood has continued to bulk large in Russian mass media. To perform analysis and illustrate the main ideas mass media involved results of various investigations which were not keeping well in step with one another, but each in its own fashion swimmingly recorded frame of mind and purse thickness of these or those social strata.
New Year Holiday Is a Lucky Occasion for Salespeople
07 february 2008
Mass media analysis during a holiday season makes it possible to feature several specific techniques used to promote jewellery to consumers.
Long-lasting Demand Trends
07 february 2008
Rings and earrings are the top two in the jewellery market, reads the Russian weekly “Kommersant-Dengi”, 22% and 18% of the overall sales correspondingly. According to the estimates of the information and analytics agency “Russian Jewellery Network”, today 6.1 per cent of customers are willing to spend over 30 thousand roubles on a ring, while only 2 per cent would buy a pair of earrings for the same amount of money.
Mass-media about consumption tendencies in 2008
07 february 2008
Alike other consumer goods, the raw materials used at manufacturing of jewels (especially precious metals), have got up. According to mass-media, the Sterling company possessing Kay Jewelers, Jarad and other jewellery marks, has declared that right after the Saint Valentine's Day it plans to set new prices for all models of its collections, including base models. Ken Gassman, the head of the research department of IDEX Online, is confident that other jewellers will follow Sterling, as they will have to raise their prices to get some profit.
Jewellers attack Britain
07 february 2008
The Israeli jewellers pay attention to the British market. In an article published in a monthly journal of the Association of jewellers of Israel, its Managing Director Itshak Ben-Dor has expressed his point of view on the market which takes the fourth place in the world and experiences significant growth. At the end of 2006 it was estimated at 4.5 billion pounds.
