The diamond miner just announced a number of exceptional finds from its Lulo mine, including this big rock and eight other diamonds weighing more than 10 carats each.

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The money, granted Sept. 25 just before the academy’s Student Indaba took place, is meant to help support the next generation of leaders in Africa through access to higher education.

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Tranzon Asset Strategies, in association with Tiger Capital Group’s Remarketing Services division, will hold an auction on Oct. 8 featuring more than 300 luxury items once owned by a California couple convicted in a $38 million premium insurance scam.

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We talked with seven Generation Y shoppers about where, when, why and how they shop for jewelry. Their answers are in our next digital magazine.

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The latest in National Jeweler’s The History Behind series explores one of the most popular and influential periods in jewelry design, the Art Deco era.

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The casting company just debuted a new 140-page catalog showing its newest mounting styles, in both classic and modern designs.

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Here are the top five stories on NationalJeweler.com from Sept. 27 to Oct. 3, according to Google Analytics.

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In part two of a two-part diary entry, Jacqueline Stone gives budding designers guidance on photographers, consultants, manufacturers and more. 

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The smartwatch will be available in select stores beginning this week, on Target.com on Oct. 18 and in all the retailer’s stores by Oct. 25.

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In response to retailers’ requests for more advertising, Hearts On Fire is providing jewelers with more than 25 commercials to choose from this holiday season.

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Jewelers of America announced Wednesday that WatchTime Editor-in-Chief Joe Thompson will be the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Gem Awards.

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De Beers’ new Forevermark commercials, which include the iconic tagline “A Diamond is Forever,” will begin airing in the U.S. early next month. Watch it here.

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Peter Smith says the answer is no if a store isn’t open enough, doesn’t respond to customers’ emails or voicemails, and doesn’t have merchandise that tells a cohesive story.

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Here are the top five stories published on NationalJeweler.com last week, according to Google Analytics.

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In National Jeweler’s preview of the Lueur antique jewelry show, see 10 pieces of jewelry that’ll be on display at the Javits Center in New York next week.

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Barbara Palumbo, author of the jewelry-centric blog Adornmentality, tells National Jeweler why she choose to highlight 50 jewelry industry millennials for her most recent “InstaSeries.”

The Florida jeweler is giving its local Humane Society a boost by a sponsoring pet adoptions and sharing a photo of one animal in need of a good home on its Facebook page every week.

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CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, has debuted its first Blue Book on coral, defining acceptable trade and industry practices and nomenclature for this organic material.

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U.S. Antique Shows announced that the March 2016 edition of Lueur will be held at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center at the same time as both the JA New York Spring and MJSA Expo shows.

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Texas retailer Thomas Markle Jewelers took home the title at the diamond brand’s recently concluded Hearts On Fire University event in Las Vegas.

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Praveenshankar Pandya now is chairperson of India’s Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council, while Rosy Blue’s Russell Mehta was elected GJEPC vice chairperson.

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Here are the top five stories published on NationalJeweler.com last week, according to Google Analytics.

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Hearts On Fire has promoted Chief Marketing Officer Caryl Capeci to president while Chief Financial Officer Tom Carlo is taking on the additional role of chief operating officer.

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Columnist Jan Brassem tests readers’ knowledge of the current luxury landscape with a nine-question pop quiz.

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The future of the ruby market seems to lie with the stones originating from Africa, but will the trade ever hold them in the same high regard as it does the Burmese stones?

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