Whether you're getting down on one knee or trying to make this Christmas extra special, the holidays are huge for jewelry sales. And while diamonds may be a girl's best friend, prices have soared on ...

PARIS — De Beers has called time out on its test-run of lab-grown diamond engagement rings, the company said Wednesday. Going forward, its lab-grown subsidiary Lightbox will continue to focus on its ...

Diamonds have long been the ultimate symbol of love and commitment, their sparkling brilliance forever linked to life’s most emotional moments. Thanks to decades of marketing genius—most notably from ...

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Over the past decades, jewelry with even a small diamond was considered a real treasure, and its price corresponded to the premium status of the gem. However, the jewelry industry also has complaints ...

GERMANTOWN -- The diamond symbolizes perfection and quality, but as technology advances, the way diamonds are formed is changing. Now, diamonds can be grown in six weeks in a lab, but what's the ...

“Up to 1,750 tons of earth has to be displaced to mine just 1 carat or 0.2 grams, of diamond and a million miners in Africa earn less than a dollar a day with some dying in accidents. Child labor is ...

One of the most striking trends to hit the jewelry market in recent years is difficult to escape, lab-grown diamonds. These pieces created as an alternative to natural diamonds have grown in ...

“Lab-grown diamonds are the great equalizer,” says Jean Dousset, the great-grandson of Louis Cartier who pivoted his namesake label to exclusively lab-grown stones in 2023. “People don’t have to ...