After suffering a professional setback, columnist Peter Smith reflects on our ability to bounce back even when the hits keep on coming.
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![In 2016, Swiss gem lab SSEF started using machine learning to help analyze the vast amounts of data produced from chemical analysis of gemstones. 20220602_Machine-learning-1.jpg](https://uploads.nationaljeweler.com/uploads/13efbb6eb8a0cacb324c415fdfff8732.jpg)
As technology accelerates the rate of scientific findings, it’s become more important than ever for the colored stone sector to keep up.
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Jewelry store owners reflect on what they’ve gotten right and wrong in their first years of business.
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There’s a fresh crop of fine jewelry retailers in the United States, making the case that brick-and-mortar stores aren’t going anywhere.
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From “old-school” eBay to new kid on the block 1stDibs, we asked jewelers about their experiences selling jewelry in non-traditional places.
![The sun sets over the open pit of De Beers’ Gahcho Kué diamond mine in Canada. In operation since 2016, it is one of the world’s newest diamond mines and one of the main reasons global diamond production spiked in 2017. (Photo credit: Ben Perry/Armoury Films, ©De Beers Group) 20220523_Gahcho Kue mine.jpg](https://uploads.nationaljeweler.com/uploads/8dcca82584dce814275ca7b6ee348c28.jpg)
The 2008 economic crisis, COVID-19, and sanctions on Russian goods have set the stage for an interesting decade for natural diamond supply.