Australia

Serge DeNimes sales up 20% to £2.4m

Male jewellery brand Serge DeNimes has seen its sales jump 20% to £2.4m in 2022, up from £2m in 2021. The company attributed this increase in sales to its successful launch in the USA and its new Seven Wonders collection. The company staged a successful pop-up in New York two…

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Rio Tinto unveils $2m Argyle Rose piece

Rio Tinto has unveiled a new A$2M (£1.07M) Argyle Rose piece featuring one of the last diamonds to be mined from the Argyle mine in the East Kimberley, Western Australia. The piece is exclusively designed by Western Australian jeweller Solid Gold Diamonds. The Argyle Rose is notable for featuring a…

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Created Brilliance launches pink diamond range for Valentine’s Day

Lab grown diamond firm Created Brilliance has announced the launch of its new pink diamond range in time for Valentine’s Day. The new range offers lab grown pink diamonds at a fraction of the cost of natural pink diamonds. Among the new pieces is an Emerald Cut 1-carat lab created…

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IEG, Vicenzaoro September: 20% more foreign visits than in 2019

Vicenzaoro September closes its 2022 edition by recovering and  surpassing pre-pandemic results. The overall number of visits was up 10% compared to 2019 with an explosion  of foreign attendances showing an increase of 20%. Over half of the total attendance was international (51%),  rom 124 countries worldwide.  To date, total…

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Petra Diamonds appoints independent non-executive director

Petra Diamonds Limited has appointed Jon Dudas as an independent non-executive director of the company, effective 1 March 2022. Dudas is currently chairman of Samruk-Kazyna, Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund, which he joined in 2020. Prior to this, he was an independent non-executive director and chairman of the National Atomic Company…

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SVP Jewellery expands into Australian market

SVP Jewellery specialists has expanded into the Australian market with Van Weelde (VW) Fashion agency. The jewellers started to see a “real uplift in traffic” from Australia and SVP Jewellery said “now is the right time” to take the brand into different markets. VW Fashion is an Australian wholesaler working…

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Gembridge appoints new Australian ambassador

Gembridge has announced that it has appointed Mark Tremonti as the new group ambassador in Australia to help further develop the business. Tremonti is a dealer in rare gemstones and coloured diamonds, who helped open new gateways to gemstone trade in Asia and helped build trading networks in the US…

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Maneesha: Gem expert, woman, pioneer

This year’s International Women’s Day on 8 March brought renewed attention to issues of equality, women’s rights and the treatment of women across the globe. It has also been a time to celebrate the incredible achievements of women in every corner of the world, and in every field of work.…

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Lucapa recovers seven diamonds and 72 chromites in Australia

Lucapa has announced that seven diamonds and 72 chromites were recovered from a recent loam and stream sampling at the Brooking diamond province in West Kimberley, Australia. The diamond company had previously announced that alongside its partners, it had already identified diamondiferous lamproite at Brooking, where over 1,200 micro and…

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GJEPC announces international buyers show

The Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) has announced that it will organise its first “export-oriented” International Gem & Jewellery Show (e-IGJS) for international buyers online from 18 to 22 January 2021. The council said that merchandisers representing major and independent retailers, design houses, jewellery manufacturers, importers, exporters and…

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