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Buying jewelry for a special lady in your life can be daunting. Considering you know as much about jewelry as Christine O’Donnell knows about witchcraft, wait… Well, let’s just say, you’ve probably stumbled  on this page because you’re looking for some practical advice on picking a beautiful piece of jewelry that the woman in your [...]

Ancient Egyptian Meteorite Jewelry May 31, 2013 – Researchers have discovered that some ancient (3,300 BCE) Egyptian jewelry contains iron from a meteorite. A crystalline pattern and the fact that it contains just the right amount of nickel serves as proof of the meteorite origin of the metal. Read more here. Gaddafi May Have Stashed [...]

Diamond Ant May 30, 2013 – A new species of ant called the Pirate Ant has been discovered in the Philippines, and looks as if it’s covered in shimmering diamonds. Read more here. Anchor Pendants for Lohan Family May 30, 2013 – Lindsay Lohan is apparently testing whether or not a little jewelry can go [...]

This week in jewelry news… Diamond Blackberries May 25, 2013 – It’s usually the iPhone that tends to get decked out as a diamond-encrusted showpiece. This time, it’s Blackberry, where diamonds bring a Q10 model to a $31,000. It’s not the most expensive we’ve seen, but it’s a start. It actually looks nicer than the [...]

$26.7M for Geneva Auction Diamond May 15, 2013 – A flawless pear-shaped D-colour diamond went for $26.7M at a Geneva Christie’s Auction House event. The 101.73 carat gem accounted for over a quarter of the total sales that day. Read more here. Lasers Find Lost Ancient Treasure City May 15, 2013 – Scientists at the [...]

This week in jewelry news… Diamond and Nanotechnology Innovation May 10, 2013 – Diamonds often contain a “nitrogen vacancy center” (NV) when there is a nitrogen molecule instead of a carbon one beside a vacant space. This setup means electrons are easily affected by light and magnetism, making it extremely useful for nanotechnology and laser [...]

This week in jewelry news… Tiffany Suing Costco for Infringement May 6, 2013 – Kleenex. Xerox. These are beyond brands, into household words to mean whatever they do, just as Google is as much a verb as it is a noun. Can you Google on Bing? IN any case, Costco is claiming that Tiffany(-style) jewelry [...]

This week in jewelry news… Most Expensive Diamond on Sale Apr 26, 2013 – 6.2M British pounds, the new record price for diamonds, was set for a beautiful blue diamond, being put up for auction by Bonhams’ European jewelry department. Read more here. Jewelry to Drive Gold? May 1, 2013 – Gold has been hit [...]

This week in jewelry news… Diamond Find Soars Stock Apr 18, 2013 – Sometimes you just get lucky. Petra Diamonds stocks surged after a 25.5 carat blue diamond was unearthed from a South African mine. The Cullinan mine, source of the largest rough diamond ever (3,106 carats), was the source of the gem. Read more [...]

This week in jewelry news… Breastmilk Jewelry. At Last. Apr 15, 2013 – I can’t tell whether this is creepy or touching. In these kinds of cases, it’s usually both. A Rhode Island woman named Allicia Mogavero, looking for a deeper connection to her maternity, is petrified and formed her breast milk into wearable jewelry [...]