(IDEX Online) - Gerald Ratner has formally launched a bid to buy back the UK brands owned by Signet - formerly Ratners, the company he founded in 1984. His famous PR gaffe in 1991 - describing his own ...

XRT is an advanced technology that allows miners to 'see' diamonds hidden inside ordinary rock and save them from the crusher. It was used to detect the 2,488-carat Motswedi, recovered at Lucara's ...

(IDEX Online) - The IMF has cautioned Botswana's authorities against increasing the country's stake in De Beers. It says the country's economy is struggling with weak diamond demand and fiscal ...

(IDEX Online) - The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) is expanding its origin-determination services to include opal, peridot, and demantoid garnet from January. The origin of these gemstones can ...