Diamond Prices News

The Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF) has issued its Q2 2019 Fancy Color Diamond Index

Christie’s sold 60% of the highest priced objects in the first half of the year

De Beers has allowed its customers to defer rough allocations

Earnings before taxes decreased by 27% to $518 million in H1

Exports of cut and polished diamonds from India dropped 19.38% year-on-year to $1.68 billion

This is the second stone weighing over 100 carats found there this year

Rio Tinto on Argyle: "There is going to be a fair bit of supply which is going to come out of the market"

Alrosa has reported that its June sales of rough and polished diamonds totaled $222.4 million

The sale included 82 gem-quality diamonds with a total weight of 1,422 carats

India plans to increase import duty on “precious metal, gold and silver” to 12.5%

The miner sold 112 gem-quality rough for a total of $10.3 million

Alrosa expects "restoration of demand for diamonds by year's end - in November-December

The total dividend for 2018 will amount to about $1.17 billion

"A more challenging environment in China and higher than normal polished diamond inventories" to blame

Gemfields made a total of $512.6 million in the 12 auctions it held since June 2014

The stone is BlueRock's largest diamond to date

Fall of polished prices is mainly to blame, say reports

The next polished tender in Israel is scheduled for this fall