Program aims to educate young consumers about mined stones’ positive qualities.
Annual Rapaport Breakfast focuses on need for transparency and ethical sourcing.
Rapaport will be hosting an open discussion webinar about the upcoming Rapaport Trade Mission to Sierra Leone, taking place Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 10:00 A.M. EST.
The miner’s lower prices are an opportunity to make money, not drop polished prices.
The KP misrepresents itself as the benchmark for ethical sourcing. The diamond industry must establish its own independent standards.
Geopolitical and economic forces are disrupting the industry, but there’s opportunity to be had in the decline of retailers’ synthetic margins, diamond-jewelry resale and a $72 trillion inheritance boom.
De Beers Group owner’s shares up 12% following offer.
Fancy-shaped diamonds stimulate demand through personalization and encourage creativity among jewelry designers.
The advent of G7 Russian sanctions is driving the need to identify and certify the mined source of diamonds — a move that’s as much a commercial necessity as a legal requirement.