2021 January

Production decreases at mines around the globe, retail closures and fractured supply chains weighed heavily on the diamond sector in 2020. Declines in mine output were countered by a drop in sales, softening some of the impact. Demand fundamentals later improved during the second half of the year, though supply stayed depressed. Moving forward, the

Image: Polished goods in a case at the 2016 edition of International Diamond Week in Israel. (Shutterstock)   Leaders of Israel’s diamond sector expressed confidence in a recovery after strong trading in the final months of last year offered hope that the worst of the coronavirus crisis was over. Israel’s final 2020 result — a

United States’ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Scientists published a study in Applied Physics Letters showing that diamonds have superior carrier mobility, breakdown electric field and thermal conductivity, which are significant properties to power electronic devices. Following this study, an international team of researchers have certified the importance of diamonds in the tech industry by conducting

The natural and lab-grown diamond industry both raised the stakes in 2020, contending for consumers whose behaviors are rapidly evolving. The debate between lab-grown and natural diamonds is only set to get hotter in 2021. A November report by MVI Marketing estimated that lab-grown diamonds will “go mainstream” relatively soon, with sales and behavior indications