Harry Winston acquired “The Pink Legacy” diamond at a Christie’s auction for $50.4 million in November 2018. It set the 18.96-carat fancy vivid pink diamond in a ring that was on display at the Harry Winston store in New York.
The American Gemological Laboratories (AGL) recently pointed out a “pivotal” change in disclosure nomenclature by CIBJO: the use of the word “composite” now can be used to describe lead-glass treated rubies, a change the AGL said many overlooked following CIBJO’s meeting in May.
Reuters reports that Belgium is pushing for the European Union to lift
sanctions on the state-run Zimbabwe Mining Development Corp. (ZMDC)
despite other countries’ concerns over alleged fraud in the July
election that kept President Robert Mugabe in office.
Citing growth in the Hispanic and Latino markets for jewelry, the
International Gemological Institute (IGI) announced the addition of
Spanish-English and Portuguese-English diamond grading reports to its
offerings.
The Analytical Gemology & Jewelry Laboratory (AG&J), the same
lab that reported the discovery of a parcel of 243 undisclosed lab-grown
yellow melee diamonds, is warning the industry that it recently found
synthetic brown melee mixed in a batch submitted as natural.
Fresh off its participation in career fair that was part of Africa
Education Week, the Gemological Institute of America announced that it’s
collaborating with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to provide
libraries for elementary students in South Africa.
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