Archive for the ‘Diamond Education’ Category

10 Jun

Diamondthrills Is Away… In Africa

It’s been a while since I was able to update this Blog, but things have changed here at Diamondthrills, so here’s the scoop (more…)
19 Feb

What if diamonds were new?

Here’s a flight of fancy which interests me… What if diamonds were new? By which I mean: what would we do with diamonds if we discovered or invented them today? (more…)
25 Aug

The 47th Street Blues

I spent the last couple of days in New York, and yesterday afternoon I went along to West 47th Street.

The street is packed with diamond and jewellery shops (more…)
04 Aug

A fabulous contradiction: ‘fresh diamonds’

Bouncing around the webosphere this week I spotted a story about diamonds which throws some interesting light on the various ways (more…)
13 Jul

Roughing it

And we’re back.

Diamondthrills has been roughing it for the last three months (more…)
05 Apr

Russians dig carats; De Beers digs dollars

I like numbers (it must be my engineering background). They can tell stories, if you know where to look (more…)
17 Mar

Diamondthrills on tour – in India

I’ve been a bit quiet on the Blog for a while because I’ve been busy with other projects, and one of those projects has brought me to India for 10 days (more…)
17 Feb

Looking for trends in De Beers’ 2010 results

Diamond mining giant De Beers announced its 2010 results last Friday, and the headline numbers were impressive: sales up more than 50%, diamond prices (more…)
09 Dec

Pink diamond sells for $1m per carat in New York

Another week, another auction, and so it seems, another record-breaking pink diamond goes under the hammer (more…)