The country's rough diamond trade saw a dip. Rough diamond imports fell by a small vale to touch $1.047 billion. Rough diamond exports dipped around 5 percent to $986.1 million. The country's net rough imports stood at $61.3 million, which was three ...

Philippe Mellier, De Beers' chief executive, told the that polished diamond sales in China were estimated to have grown by about 30 per cent year on year in 2011, while in India growth was between 10 per cent and 15 per cent.

The assessment of Gembel European Sales NV, an Antwerp based rough and polished diamond trading company, was carried out by Stefaan Beirens from WF&Co. ?We are one of the oldest diamond companies in the world and a family who has always been ahead for ...

Despite the drop in the price of goods per carat, the value of polished diamond exports increased by almost 1 percent ? 0.93 percent ? in January to $819.934.022 compared to January 2011. By volume, there was, however, a 21.7 percent decline to 468.858 ...

The imposition of import duty last month on polished diamonds looks set to succeed in stamping out circular trading, the shady financing schemes facilitated by the Indian diamond sector, industry stakeholders said. Credibility concerns: Diamond workers ...

?The guiding principle of ImaGem Consortia is to give the trade easy access to ImaGem's equipment and services for light behavior, fingerprinting, rough diamond inclusion mapping, polished diamond grading and automatic video generation,? says Dr. Lalit ...

The Diamond Pavilion also presents the famous diamond ECC tennis racket, set with 1167 diamonds cut in Antwerp ; the city shield and jewelry from the Napoleonic era. Some 80 percent of all rough diamonds and 50 percent of all polished diamonds pass ...

The Kimberley Process addresses questions of rough diamonds, not the polished diamond supply chain, newly-appointed KP chair Gillian Milovanovic said Friday on a conference call with members of the press. Milovanovic spoke in response to a question ...

Total rough and polished diamond exports increased 51.9% in actual exchange rates, as the country is about to become a global trading center in 2013. The African country exported $159.4 million worth of diamonds in December, up 6.6% year-over-year, ...

The RapNet Diamond Index (RAPI?) for 1.00-carat polished diamonds fell 1 percent to 95.95 in January. RAPI for 0.30-carat diamonds declined 3.9 percent to 15.48 and RAPI for 0.50-carat diamonds rose 0.3 percent to 34.49. RAPI for 3.00-carat diamonds ...