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.”

David Yurman, Lagos and Armenta all have unveiled lines featuring blackened metals for fall/winter 2015, as darker color palettes arrive with autumn.

Although recent JBT data shows the jewelry industry is continuing to shrink, David Desso Fine Watches & Jewelry opened on Long Island’s South Shore this month. 

The Alliance for Responsible Mining and the Norwegian Mint teamed up in hopes that a Fairmined medal will bring awareness to issues faced by artisanal and small-scale gold miners across the globe.

De Beers has ceased operations at its Snap Lake mine and will take the next year to determine if mining there is worthwhile given the drop in demand for diamonds.

It was her great-grandfather’s “labor of love” that inspired Priyanka Kedia’s Heritage collection, which she’ll be showcasing alongside new pieces as a Rising Star at JCK Las Vegas.

The fancy vivid “De Beers Millennium Jewel 4,” once part of a group of diamonds De Beers gathered to mark the millennium, will be up for auction at Sotheby’s Hong Kong.

Open only to the brands and designers exhibiting at the show, this year’s contest has a total of 12 categories.

More than half of the retail jewelers who took our survey this month said their watch sales have declined over the past 10 years as they struggle to compete with online sellers.

Mike Clemente now is vice president of sales while Brian Newman has been appointed Northeast territory manager.

A real estate publication is reporting that the store will be in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood, an area with heavy foot traffic.

The exhibition is set up in Rome’s Museo di Roma-Palazzo Braschi and showcases how the serpent has been used in jewelry, art and design.

The Smyth Jewelers executive now is board president of the Continental Buying Group, where he will provide strategic counsel for the organization.

The watch, which once belonged to the founder of news agency Agence France-Presse, will hit the auction block this May at Christie’s Geneva.

The retail giants are just two of the jewelry companies that announced a commitment to support the fight against wildlife trafficking on World Wildlife Day last week.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to severely tighten regulations on the trade in African elephant ivory and, while there are a few exemptions, they may not extend to jewelry. 

The brand’s most recent collection offers boldly colored gemstones, like green quartz and blue topaz, set into its signature sterling silver metalwork.

The Detroit-built watch brand also received a mention in Sunday night’s Democratic debate.

According to an internal communication from the brand sent to a local news outlet, Harlan Kent resigned Friday after slightly less than a year with the jewelry company.

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

Light will be the first recipient of Diamond Empowerment Fund’s new Diamonds Do Good Lifetime Achievement Award, which he’ll receive during the organization’s gala in Las Vegas.

From the record-setting price for a white diamond from Angola’s Lulo mine to the best Oscars jewelry, it’s the week that was in photos.

The 10 colors expected to be hot this fall will soon come into play as summer winds down and the temperature drops.

Italian jewelry brand Athomie is introducing its sterling silver collection in the United States.

In the words of Tom Heyman, renowned jewelry brand Oscar Heyman "is all about the gemstone."