(IDEX Online) - Rio Tinto has reported "strong results" from its third and final Beyond Rare tender, though it declined to say how strong. It featured polished fancy color diamonds from the famed ...

(IDEX Online) - Junior miner Star Diamond has secured funding to revive plans for a possible mining operation in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Diamonds were first discovered, at the Fort a la ...

(IDEX Online) - The riddle of the iconic Florentine Diamond, which was missing for over a century, has finally been solved. The 137.27-carat pale yellow gem, set in a brooch, was, it turns out, safely ...

(IDEX Online) - A jeweler who lost his right eye to a parasitic infection now has a prosthetic replacement - with a dazzling 2.0-carat diamond. Slater Jones, 23, owner of Jones Jewelry, based in Arab, ...

(IDEX Online) - The 42.68 carat Vanderbilt Sapphire, a treasure from the shipping and railroad Vanbderbilt dynasty, sold for $3.6m, more than twice its $1.5m high estimate, at Phillips Geneva. The ...

(IDEX Online) - The imperial crown of France's Empress Eugenie - dropped by thieves fleeing the Louvre heist last month - will be restored, says the museum's director. Laurence des Cars said the crown ...