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Diamond Prices Are Set to Spike. Here’s Why.

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  • Buying a diamond is about getting more expensive, industry experts told Business Insider.
  • That’s due to a number of pandemic distortions that are finally working their way out of the industry.
  • Prices could rise as much as 10% over the next year, some analysts say.

Buying a diamond is about to become more expensive.

Blame a myriad of factors that are boosting the market, including tighter supply, hotter demand, and a wave of couples who are expected to get cuffed

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Jewelery News

Surrey crime: Video shows violent jewelry store robbery

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Video has surfaced that appears to show a terrifying attempted robbery unfolding at a Surrey jewelry store where the owner was reportedly shot four times over the weekend.

In the video, yelling can be heard outside the store followed by gunshots after a chaotic confrontation erupted at the business on near 101 Avenue and 152 Street Sunday.

Store manager Mazhar Qawasmeh says that the business owner remains in hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.

“He’s lucky to be alive. I mean to be shot from zero distance four times, that’s a miracle,” he said.

“It’s horrible. It shouldn’t happen.”

Qawasmeh was

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Meet man, an IITian, ​​backed by Ratan Tata, who built Rs 3650 crore firm after…

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The Bengaluru-based company is fortunate to have secured the coveted personal investment of renowned Indian businessman Ratan Tata

Gaurav Kushwaha has created his own identity in the business world. He’s not just the founder and CEO of Bluestone Jewelry. However, he is also a visionary who saw immense potential in the online jewelery store. This online individual has a talent for starting successful yet revolutionary ventures. His company is backed by business giants such as Ratan Tata and Zerodha.

In 2011, Gaurav Kushwaha founded BlueStone jewellery, the Bengaluru-based startup has attracted investment from Ratan Tata, received priceless wisdom from the

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Saturn’s rings are going to disappear in 2025 | TechNews

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Saturn is famous for its spectacular rings

Saturn is famous for its spectacular rings (Picture: Getty/Science Photo Libra)

It was in 1610 that the father of modern astronomy Galileo Galilei first spotted Saturn’s spectacular rings – although through his pioneering but primitive telescope he liked them more to ‘ears’.

Now, more than 400 years on, anyone with even a simple piece of kit can witness the cosmic spectacle with their own eyes.

Until 2025.

Saturn’s rings are going to disappear. Twice.

The original planetary hula hoop is made up of seven individual rings, which are thought to be comprised of bits of comets, asteroids and shattered moons

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Saturn’s rings younger than previously thought — just a few hundred million years: IU News

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Saturn.

New research reveals that Saturn’s rings are much younger than the planet itself. Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Saturn’s rings are much younger than scientists once thought, according to new research from Indiana University Professor Emeritus of Astronomy Richard Durisen — and they are not here to stay.

For decades, there has been debate about the origin of Saturn’s icy rings. But according to two new studies from Durisen, published in Icarus, the rings are no more than a few hundred million years old — much younger than the planet itself, which was formed 4.5 billion

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David Webb Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary in Jewelry

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“David Webb is unquestionably one of the leading 20th-century American jewelry designers,” Medill Higgins Harvey, associate curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said, “distinguished by his originality, the bold sculptural quality of his work, and the distinctive way in which it reveals a keen and nuanced sense of history and art history, as well as current trends and tastes.”

Ms. Harvey’s assessment echoes a lot of voices in the jewelry world as the American jeweler’s company marks its 75th year.

Since Mr. Webb’s death in 1975, his original designs have remained in production — and

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DMCC announces $38.3 billion in 2023 diamond trade

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Despite a global 20 per cent drop in rough diamond prices, the UAE’s rough diamond trade only decreased by 13 per cent year-on-year in 2023, maintaining robust volumes, DMCC reported. A total of $21.3 billion of rough diamonds were traded in the UAE in 2023.

Historically focused on rough diamonds, Dubai’s diamond industry now sees polished diamonds contributing 44 per cent to the total trade value. The Gemological Institute of America’s new laboratory in Dubai, opened in February 2024, is expected to boost the sector further.

Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DMCC, said. “Our appeal to

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French tourist finds 7.46-carat diamond in US national park

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A French tourist struck luck on a visit to a US national park when he found a 7.46-carat diamond in 37 acres of muddy earth.

Julien Navas from Paris was visiting Arkansas‘ Crater of Diamonds State Park for the first time during a trip to the US to see the Vulcan Centaur rocket launch from Cape Canaveral when he made his discovery.

The park is one of the few places in the world where the public can search for real diamonds.

“I got to the park around nine o’clock and started to dig,” Mr Navas said.

“That was back-breaking

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