Announcing its operating results for Q1 2019, ALROSA reported a diamond production of 7.8 million carats for the period. This marked an increase of 5% y-o-y.

The Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) recently unveiled what it described as “a remarkable oval shaped blue diamond weighing over 20 carats” in Gaborone, Botswana This is the biggest blue diamond discovery ever made in Botswana, the Company stated.

CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri will make a presentation on the World Jewellery Confederation’s recently approved Responsible Sourcing Blue Book to the full plenary of the 2019 Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains, organised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) at its headquarters in Paris next week.

The US government is reported to have told representatives of the gem and jewellery industry in that country that they may soon make it mandatory to certify that each and every component of a piece of imported jewellery has been responsibly sourced, according to reports in the US trade media.