As we slide into the quarter-century mark — and Happy New Year, by the way — there are some interesting things going on in the jewelry business. It wasn’t long ago that diamond jewelry was all about ...

Diamonds are expensive because they’re rare, but high-end jewellers are increasingly embracing colourful alternatives like aquamarines, garnets and tsavorites for added sparkle Breaking news: ...

A campaign has been launched to save a rare workshop which transforms stones into gems. Bristol's lapidary club, the last of its kind in the south-west of England, is at risk of closure as essential ...

Cutting gives the stones a specific shape and enables the true colour and brilliance of the gem to emerge. Gemstones may come in a variety of shapes, such as pear, round, emerald, square, heart, oval ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The star of this year’s Chanel Escale à Venise high jewellery collection was a large necklace that tried to ...

On a site on Carlisle in Cumbria, England, that once held a high-status Roman bathhouse, archaeologists have unearthed 34 gems, variously cut from amethyst, jasper, and cornelian, and dating back to ...

PESHAWAR: The gemstone industry in Peshawar has witnessed a sudden decline in recent years. The once flourishing businesses that dotted Peshawar’s historic Namak Mandi locality have suffered due to ...

A British Museum staff member has been dismissed after items were found to be 'missing, stolen or damaged' from the collection as bosses vow to find the treasures in a 'painstaking' recovery job. The ...