2013 May 16
$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.
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Lasers Find Lost Ancient Treasure City
May 15, 2013 – Scientists at the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) bombarded a patch of rainforest in Honduras and have uncovered structures that are now believed to potentially be two lost cities, one of which could be the lost legendary “white city”.
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Soros Backing Out of Gold-Backed Fund
May 16, 2013 – Billionaire investor George Soros has decided to split from a major gold-backed fund in the face of a bear market. This is as gold continues to dip in value, performing at record lows for 2013 so far.
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2013 May 14
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 data reading.
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$100k for Diamond-Studded iPhone
May 11, 2013 – In the latest diamond-studding-everyday-objects ridiculousness, you can now get a diamond-studden iPhone 5 for $106,000.
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Diamond-Studded Lego Queen
May 14, 2013 – Made to celebrate her coronation 60 years ago, A lego-sized model of Queen Elizabeth II will be going on display in Manchester, sporting 48 real diamonds in its crown.
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Greener Gold Extraction
May 14, 2013 – Gold extraction from other materials has typically required cyanide salts that have harmed the environment. Researchers at Northwestern University got lucky (they were trying to make three-dimensional cubes out of gold and starch. Don’t ask me why.) and discovered that corn starch actually does the same thing, making for a far greener future for the process. It can also be used to extract gold from consumer waste.
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2013 May 08
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 is of the same kind, and as such they feel they can legitimately sell jewelry under the Tiffany name. Naturally, Tiffany does not agree.
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Jewelry Store Owner and Insider Trader
May 6, 2013 – Jewelry store owner Bryan Shaw has reached a plea agreement over his involvement in an insider trading scandal with firm KPMG. Having made over a million with information on KPMG clients, he was eventually caught.
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2013 May 05
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.
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Jewelry to Drive Gold?
May 1, 2013 – Gold has been hit hard over the last few months, in a general steady decline and with the worst two-day period since 1980 happening recently. That said, jewelry demand is on the rise, which could mean for an end to the drop and some likely gains.
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Warren Buffett the Jewelry Salesman
May 5, 2013 – Warren Buffett will be taking to the jewelry sales floor again in his annual sales effort as he pitches to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Last year her sold $1.5M, but this year he’s hoping to up that to more than $2M.
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2013 April 25
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.
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Jewelry at Burial Site Suggests Woman’s Importance
Apr 22, 2013 – Jewelry at burial grounds is generally quite a good indicator for the relative importance and wealth of the buried individual. The same is being assumed of a 4,500 year-old woman who was found with noteworthy jewelry. Architects from Wessex Archaeology have called her “Kingsmead’s queen”, named for the quarry where she was found (near Windsor)
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Largest Clearest Diamond
Apr 23, 2013 – Synthetic diamond producing technology is getting better and better, and recently Gemesis Diamond Company produced the largest, whitest, clearest diamond ever made. The emerald cut gem is 1.29 carats, with a retail price of over $7,000.
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2013 April 17
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 items. I appreciate the innovation. Yes.
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Tamara Ecclestone Poses Nude with Diamonds
Apr 16, 2013 – Tamara Ecclestone, the Formula 1 heiress, got attention when she decided to pose nude for Playboy, her sensitive areas covered in diamonds, with a diamond Playboy bunny backdrop. Maybe not the best idea for the wealthy Brit, but it certainly put her in the sparkling spotlight.
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Potentially Most Expensive Diamond Ever
Apr 16, 2013 – The Princie Diamond is expected to sell for potentially more than $50M at an auction in New York. Is is a 34.65 carat pink diamond and was found in Golconda in India.
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2013 April 13
This week in jewelry news…
Market Forces, Not De Beers, Guiding Diamond Prices
Apr 9, 2013 – Diamond prices used to come from a single authoritative source: De Beers. Cecil Rhodes had locked in. Now, after 25 years of evolution and monopoly dismantling, diamond prices are now more affected by market forces instead.
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Suing Over Gun Jewelry
Apr 11, 2013 – One woman is suing another for stealing her idea to strip down guns and make them into jewelry (to send a message about gun violence). This seems pretty strange, considering the noble goals attached, but I suppose the profitability involved in cashing in on lax gun control laws is just too high to share.
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The Most Expensive iPhone Ever
Apr 13, 2013 – A rare black diamond was inserted into the front of an iPhone 5, and as a result, it is the most “valuable” phone on Earth at $15M. The craftsman who put it together earlier made an iPad made of solid gold.
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2013 April 01
This week in jewelry news…
Robber Has Heart Attack During Robbery
March 31, 2013 – Things went from bad to worse for an armed burglar in Oxford, who tried to rob a jewelery store and then collapsed with a heart attack.
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Hayden Panettiere Engaged?
April 1, 2013 – Hayden Panettiere, in addition to sporting an unbelievably fit body, was also recently sporting what may in face be a diamond engagement ring from boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko.
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Fake-Prince Steals Jewelry
April 1, 2013 – A Dutch jeweller was robbed in Dubai after a Saudi man convinced him he was actually a prince, successfully luring him out to eventually kidnap and rob him.
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Destination Unknown for Cologne Jewish Artifacts
April 1, 2013 – A trove of artifacts, including a variety of ornaments and jewelry, some 2,000 years old, has been unearthed by archaeological dig in Cologne. The items belong to one of Europe’s biggest and oldest Jewish communities, and now there is debate as to where the items will be displayed.
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2013 March 29
This week in jewelry news…
Viking Treasure Hoard Location Being Debated
March 27, 2013 – A trove of silver viking ingots, rings, brooches and more were discovered by metal detector enthusiasts in North Yorkshire. Originally slated for the British Museum in London, the local York Museums Trust is angling for the rights to the find.
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Lloyds Loses Family’s Jewelry
March 27, 2013 – Dorset’s Gillian Robinson has now lost generations of her family’s heirloom jewelry after Lloyds bank informed her that the items had been lost. Lloyds has agreed to compensate her for the value of the lost items with a supplementary amount for distress. The article reports that the distress money will be around £500, which sounds pretty darn low for lost generations of family heirlooms, from a bank of all things…
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Most Expensive High Heels in the World
March 28, 2013 – It’s time again for another “World’s Most Expensive X” declaration, and this time we’re talking high heels. The white diamond pair are worth over $400,000 and contain 21.18 carats. They were put together by shoe designer Kathryn Wilson and Sarah Hutchings, a jewelry expert.
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Lindsay Lohan Stealing Again?
March 29, 2013 – Surprise, surprise, Lindsay Lohan’s at it again. Acting, you say? No. Thieving. This time it’s potentially more clothes and jewelry from the Anger Management set. This will not end well.
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2013 March 26
This week in jewelry news…
Concrete Jewelry?
March 25, 2013 – When you think of concrete, you think of buildings, construction, infrastructure. What you don’t think of is glazed and polished concrete jewelry, yet this is exactly what Thomas Hauser of Viennese jewellery house Atelier Allure has conceived and implemented.
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Homeless Man’s Kind Act Rewarded
March 25, 2013 – You may remember hearing about Billy Ray Harris, the homeless man who held onto a woman’s engagement ring until she came back later and asked him about it, at which point he returned it. He had originally taken it to a pawn shop and he was offeredn $4,000 for it, but changed his mind to do what he perceived as the right thing. Turns out he’s being quite rewarded for his morality, not only being reunited with lost family, but being offered a home and money to compensate him for what he would have made pawning off the ring, and more.
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Jewelry Store Manager Steals to Get Car Back
March 25, 2013 – A Boynton Beach jewelry manager was accused of stealing jewelry from where she worked to pay to get her repossessed car back. While this isn’t mind-blowing jewelry news, her mugshot is notable and worth sharing.
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NFL Plays Burgled of $500,000 of Jewelry
March 26, 2013 – NFL defensive tackle Shaun Rogers hit the Miami clubs with his friends and returned to his hotel room with a girl. When he woke up after sleeping the night off, both the girl and the half-million dollars of jewelry in the safe were gone. Whoops.
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