Summary The domestic gold price ended 5.6% lower in February at Rs46,425/10g1 A lower domestic gold price and wedding season purchases boosted retail demand during the month Indian official imports hit a…
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Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DMCC, talks to Solitaire about the scope of DMCC’s ambitions for gold and diamonds, and its success in growing business during the pandemic.…
Diamond analyst Edahn Golan questions whether the V-shaped recovery in the polished prices will sustain in the long run. Valentine’s Day and the Chinese New Year continued to support the wholesale polished…
Why are pearls so popular right now? In January, US Vice President Kamala Harris wore a pearl necklace specially designed by Wilfredo Rosado to the inauguration. Her signature accessory put pearls back…
February summary The LBMA Gold Price AM in US dollars (USD) fell by 4.7% and the Shanghai Gold Benchmark Price PM (SHAUPM) in renminbi (RMB) dropped 4% in the month1 China’s retail…
While 2020 marked the eleventh consecutive year of central bank net purchases, it nonetheless finished on a somewhat uncertain note. A slowdown in the pace of purchasing by several banks in the…
An interesting tuft of light blue needles was recently observed in a polished modified cube of rock crystal quartz (figure 1). The needles nucleated on a nearly invisible quartz crystal with the…
Recently the authors examined a 4.8 cm tall pale blue sapphire crystal (figure 1) that featured numerous purple spinel crystals up to 8 mm in size on the surface (figure 2), a…
Numerous gem materials have been designated “trapiche” in the trade and in various publications. They generally describe a pattern consisting of a fixed non-transparent star in a transparent matrix, with the arms…
Recently examined in the Carlsbad laboratory was a 26.72 ct transparent violet modified cushion mixed-cut stone (figure 1). Standard gemological testing revealed a refractive index of 1.583–1.592 and a specific gravity of…