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De Beers getting into recycled diamond business

De Beers has launched a consumer diamond buyback service in the form of the International Institute of Diamond Valuation (IIDV). Available in the United States, the service looks to provide an “enhanced diamond jewellery reselling solution, suited to the needs of both retailers and consumers,” the company said in a news release.

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Street-mined: Making sense of off-the-street diamonds

There has been a lot of talk of late about a lack of high-quality rough diamonds. The fact is, new discoveries are few and far between, and even when they are made, it can take up to 15 years to bring a mine into production. Yet, there seems to be a new source that has come online recently that few anticipated: the street mine.

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