Educational services will be provided to help the industry improve on determining that the diamonds in vintage pieces are real, natural diamonds.

Vintage Diamonds

De Beers is making it easier to resell or buy vintage diamonds and pre-owned diamonds with confidence. De Beers has just announced a new partnership with CIRCA, a global buyer of pre-owned fine diamond jewellery and watches, which will use new diamond detection equipment to find out whether second hand and resold diamonds are legitimate. Educational

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Central African Republic

CAR Government launches complete reform of the diamond mining sector in a drastic approach to fight illicit Diamonds

Ahead of the Annual General Membership (AGM) meeting of the World Diamond Council (WDC) in Antwerp, the Government of the Central African Republic launched a full overhaul of the country’s alluvial diamond mining sector. Going forward, the CAR’s Government will stand for a bold new and drastic approach where full transparency and proper due diligence

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State of Qatar

Trading market for diamonds in Qatar SA Ambassador Faizel Moosa

With South Africa’s rich natural resources it could help to establish Qatar’s huge potential as a trading market for diamonds, and to put up gold refineries across its free zones, this according to our South African ambassador Faizel Moosa. In an attempt to balance trade figures between Qatar and South Africa, Moosa said Africa is

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WFDB Presidents Meeting goes ahead with new path forward on KYC and supply source traceability

Dubai, UAE – 29 September, 2019: The World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) Presidents Meeting after a special session onblockchain technology and supply source traceability has decided to take further steps on the need for increased transparency in diamond transactions. The decision came after a debate on the conclusions of a panel on traceability, provenance

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South African Diamonds

A call for transformation by parliament’s portfolio committee on mineral resources

The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and Energy has called for the South African Diamond and Precious Metal Regulator (SADPMR) to transform the sector, as well as to sanction the existing transformation office to ensure these sectors reflect the demographics of the country. The South African Diamond and Precious Metals Regulator (SADPMR), Mintek and the State Diamond Trader (STD), were

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French Association of Gemmology

The French Association of Gemmology – Speaker Line-up for 18th Gemmological Symposium

The Association Française de Gemmologie (the French Association of Gemmology) has released information about the subjects to be addressed by the rest of the high-level speakers at the 18th Paris Gemmological Rendez Vous. The prestigious annual gems symposium will take place on September 9, 2019, at: l’ASIEM, 6 rue Albert de Lapparent, Paris, France. This

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The Future of Diamonds- Meeting in Dubai : in-depth look at the issue of synthetic diamonds with a panel discussion

Synthetic diamonds to be debated at WFDB and IDMA Presidents Meeting in Dubai on September 24-25 Nature will beat nurture with natural stones retaining value while lab-grown stones inevitably lose theirs = Ernie Blom World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) Antwerp, Belgium – 25 August 2019: The Presidents Meeting of the World Federation of Diamond

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