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New Delhi– World-leading jewellery makers Chopard, Kering, LVMH, Richemont, Swarovski and Tiffany & Co. (now part of the LVMH Group) and coloured gemstone mining companies Gemfields and Muzo (together, the Coloured Gemstones Working Group or CGWG) announce the launch of the Gemstones and Jewellery Community Platform, uniting gemstone and jewellery brands through shared commitments for people and planet.
The Platform, developed by sustainability consulting firm TDI Sustainability together with and thanks to funding from the CGWG, is an open and available resource centre for the entire gemstone and jewellery industry, a unique capability building initiative to catalyse positive change for the sector, from within.
News Top gemstone and jewellery brands launch a free sustainability resource platform to catalyse positive change across the coloured gemstone industry World-leading jewellery makers Chopard, Kering, LVMH, Richemont, Swarovski and Tiffany & Co. (now part of the LVMH Group) and coloured gemstone mining companies Gemfields and Muzo (together, the Coloured Gemstones Working Group or CGWG) announce the launch of the Gemstones and Jewellery Community Platform, uniting gemstone and jewellery brands through shared commitments for people and planet By: Diamond World News Service
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After 5 years of collaboration, the Coloured Gemstones Working Group (CGWG) announced today the launch of the Gemstones and Jewellery Community Platform. The Platform, developed by sustaina
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New CIBJO Website Provides Clear Diamond Definitions March 17, 21 by John Jeffay
(IDEX Online) - A new website launched by CIBJO provides easy-to-understand definitions of natural a
nd lab-grown diamonds to avoid confusion for anyone who buys, sells o
r handles them.
The site at www.whatisadiamond.org defines a diamond as a mineral consisting essentially of carbon that crystallises in the isometric (cubic) crystal system.
It defines a synthetic diamond o
r laboratory-grown diamond as an artificial product having essentially the same chemical composition, physical properties, a
nd structure as that of a diamond, whichever method of growing is used.
Diamonds vs coloured gemstones Rough&Polished correspondent Sergey Goryainov sat down for a talk with Professor Andrey Ametistov, a Russian gemologist to discuss similarities and differences between the diamond market and coloured gemstones market.
Over the past five years, the technologies for the synthesis of gem-quality diamonds have been developed by leaps and bound and there has been a corresponding industrial and commercial boom, as a result, the supply of high-quality large-sized synthetic stones is growing exponentially, the synthetics’ production cost is falling, and it can be said with a high probability that this process will develop quite fast. The diamond market has never seen such a situation before in its history unlike the market for coloured stones where high-quality synthetics at a relatively low production cost have been present for many decades. What is the situation today with the jewellery synthetics expansion on the coloured stone market?