The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) India and the Indian Institute of Gems and Jewellery, Jaipur (IIGJ) announced they would be offering Accredited Jewelry Professional (AJP) diploma courses in Jaipur during February. The courses are designed to focus on effective jewelry sales techniques.
Nirupa Bhatt, managing director of the GIA India-Mideast Region, told Diamond World that, [...]

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Rockwell Diamonds Inc. has completed the private placement of the recapitalization financings they announced in December 2009, having raised C$8.6 million (US$8.1 million), the company announced Tuesday.
Rockwell intended to raise approximately C$12.5 million (US11.8 million) in a combination of private financings and a shareholder rights offering. In January, the company completed a C$7.4 million (US$7 [...]

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Jeannine masters the art of releasing the fire from a dull stone’s heart;

Yellowknife-based Jeannine Pilon demonstrates diamond polishing at Northern House in Vancouver to showcase business in the Territories. Photograph by: Ian Smith, PNG, The Province
They call her diamond girl.
Jeannine Pilon, who became Canada’s first certified female diamond polisher in 2005, plies one of [...]

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Scientists have found crystals in a meteorite that are even harder than diamonds.
According to a report in Discovery News, the finding was made by Tristan Ferroir and his team from the Universite de Lyon in France.
A closer look with an array of instruments revealed two totally new kinds of naturally occurring carbon, which are harder [...]

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