For more than a century, Antwerp has been a crucial hub for a $100 billion global industry—one that virtually defines love ...

The fall in exports forced the world's biggest diamond polisher to reduce imports of rough diamonds by 18% from a year ago to $14.27 billion in the financial year ended March 31, the Gem and ...

The largest was the 3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond, discovered in South Africa in 1905. Graff described the stone as "the world's most valuable rough diamond".

Natural light streams in from a wall-to-wall window where Eric, a diamond cutter (whose surname must remain a secret), is preparing a 782-carat rough diamond the size of a baseball to be sliced by an ...

Sanctions on Russian diamonds, imposed in response to the war in Ukraine, have damaged business in Surat, India’s diamond polishing hub. Many of the city’s diamond artisans from lower-income ...

By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. Rough diamonds, fit for cutting, are sold at 41 13s.

The US government banned imports of rough diamonds from Zimbabwe earlier ... east of Zimbabwe is estimated to have one of the world's richest diamond reserves and is a vital revenue earner for ...