Program aims to educate young consumers about mined stones’ positive qualities.
Memorandum of understanding calls for collaboration between CIBJO and IGDA.
Rapaport looks at how retailers can sway young consumers toward natural stones as lab-grown gains traction.
July 10 symposium will be first of its kind, says host DMCC.
Lab tech: Grown stones’ chemical properties are spurring progress in computing, sustainable energy, and other emerging fields.
Some jewelers are keeping their synthetics sales low-key to avoid pushback from the trade.
Siobhán Duffy will take the helm at the industrial-diamond business on February 1.
Current board member succeeds Sue Rechner.
Joanna Park-Tonks to succeed Dick Garard at IGDA.
Walter Huehn will leave the De Beers synthetic-diamond business early next year.
Inflation and a glut of synthetic goods mark the end of 2022.