This week: Is the diamond business moving away from Mumbai? Overstock has renamed itself Beyond. And what are Kylie Jenner’s jewelry plans? All below.

 

Jewelry buyback companies Worthy, Circa join forces

 

Move over, Canadamark—here comes Botswanamark

– Speech by Botswana President Masisi at Facets 2023

 

Okavango Diamond Company halting diamond auctions

– De Beers output falls amid Venetia mine transition

– Petra sees market starting to stabilize

 

HB Antwerp “gets reality check” (registration required)

 

G7 announcement on Russia expected by end of month

– African Diamond Producers Association opposes G7 protocol

– EU getting to work on sanctions package

– Industry split (video)

– Anger is “inevitable”

 

Indian growers wants to take advantage of WD Lab Grown implosion

 

InStore reader notes lab-grown diamond “paradigm shift”

– Possible “breakout category” for fashion jewelry

 

Diamond Foundry factory plans have local residents “up in arms”

– Factory set to being production in 2024

 

Pandora, like Signet, wants to expand its service business

– Pandora plans to build factory in Vietnam

 

EU approves Yoox Net-a-Porter acquisition

– What the deal means for luxury e-commerce

– Will the terms change?

 

Mumbai fears exodus as Kiran Gems moves to Surat

 

Young designers reviving Rhode Island’s 300-year-old jewelry factories

 

Luxury woes separate winners from losers

 

Jewelry sales solid at Kering

 

Watches “next frontier for quiet luxury”

 

Wealthy buyers want “less bling”

 

What luxury loses by ignoring plus-size customers

 

This 94 ct. Paraiba tourmaline necklace could be yours

 

A diamond-encrusted Gucci handbag will be sold by Christie’s

 

Is fully traceable gold possible?

 

Recycled gold is a “marketing scam”

 

U.S. Treasury removes beneficial ownership reporting “escape hatch”

 

Will the watch industry profit from going green?

 

Pure Earth honors Iris Van der Veken

 

Jewelers for Children honors Hampton, Coreys

 

Longtime Costco CEO Jelinek steps down

 

Katie Stelmaszek joins Facets of Fire as marketing director

 

Rough Diamond Dealers Association of South Africa elects new executive board

 

Michael Kazanjian of Kazanjian Beverly Hills dies at 86

 

Baltimore man pleads guilty to armed robbery of local jewelry store

 

Ohio jeweler repays thousands of dollars in workers’ comp fraud case

 

Man trapped overnight in Diamond District vault

 

Zimbabwean diamonds not as valuable as widely believed

– Consolidated Diamond Company eyes $500 million this year

 

Ritani expands diamond buyback program

 

Overstock to change corporate name to Beyond

 

Element Six selected for Department of Defense program

 

How microbes can help find kimberlite deposits

 

Monique Lhuillier adds lab-grown diamonds to Kay Jewelers collection

 

Kylie Jenner secretly filed for jewelry trademarks

 

Easiest way to untangle a necklace, according to celebrity jeweler

 

Megan Thee Stallion is wearing jewelry on her nails

 

Wedding ring accidentally donated to Goodwill

 

Police retrieve woman’s engagement ring from sewer

 

Pittsburgh airport workers find traveler’s lost diamond in bathroom

 

Woman strikes gold (and diamonds) in thrift store

 

Media Watch

HuffPost, Quintessentially, CNN, and New York Post on lab-grown diamonds

Newsweek: Diamond sales “lack sparkle”

 

From the Blog

Move Over, Canadamark—Here Comes Botswanamark

 

From the Podcast     

The Jewelry District, Episode 107: Guest Edahn Golan

 

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