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...The EU has argued that a traceability system is required to verify the origin of a diamond and make sanctions on Russian stones effective....
...Singapore-based trader Trafigura said in January it was the victim of a $577mn nickel fraud, while bags of stones were discovered instead of nickel inside a London Metal Exchange warehouse last month....
...The Indian government even put on a voluntary import moratorium on rough stones in the final quarter to protect its polishers and cutters....
...Round on the Links The link was film directors Marshall Islands Jackson (Mississippi) Burton-on-Trent Boyle’s Lucas Howard (original line-up of Take That) Stone (first Harry Potter book) Cameron...
...A makeshift shrine grew up on the dunes which, when I visited the beach a couple of years ago, was an ugly sprawl of tribute stones interspersed with damp socks (you’d need to read the books)....
...Wanblad acknowledged that lab-grown stones were making inroads, creating a “level of uncertainty” in the market....
...Analysts said Chinese consumers still strongly preferred natural diamonds, but some retailers were suspected of selling man-made stones advertised as mined....
...No benchmark pricing exists for coloured gems because of the uniqueness of each stone....
...The US unilaterally banned the import of Russian rough diamonds in April 2022, but stones that were polished elsewhere were still allowed into the country....
...The exact system for tracking stones has not been made clear....
...G7 nations have agreed the details of their sanctions on Russian diamond trading, including a phased-in ban on the stones through 2024....
...They have been under pressure from the weakness in prices driven by the global pinch on consumer spending that hit at the same time as man-made stones were taking market share....
...Lab-grown gems are posing a significant threat to the natural diamond sector, as consumers — particularly in the US — choose to buy jewellery that uses stones that are created in a foundry but are almost...
...The trader said industry participants had been told that the January timeline was not yet set in stone....
...The diverging popularity of natural and so-called “lab-grown” stones has been laid bare this month....
...group Trafigura this year accused a trader of masterminding a $590mn nickel fraud while in a separate scandal, bags of nickel in London Metal Exchange warehouses were found to have been packed full of stones...
...The maison celebrated 240 years in the square in 2020 and each watch secretly incorporates a tiny stone taken from its 12 Place Vendôme home....
...After four years of tense negotiations, the world’s biggest diamond miner and the largest producing country by value struck a landmark deal last month aimed at guaranteeing supply of the precious stones...
...Sometimes, like those Spotify playlists where 1970s hits by The Who, Queen or The Rolling Stones sweep BTS and Gojira off the top of the charts, the ripple effects left in the wake of a great book take a...
...Only Russia produces more of the precious stones....
...The supposed nickel consignments were actually filled with stone, said a person familiar with the matter....
...“It’s like standing in the stone age looking at the bronze age coming,” said Jeremy Wrathall, chief executive of Cornish Lithium....
...And Swatch-owned jeweller Harry Winston had plans the same year to set up a $250mn fund to buy diamonds with money from institutional investors....
...recyclable-PED Picto birdhouse, €69 From top: Harry Winston platinum and diamond Couture Diamond bracelet and necklace....
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