Chelsea Clinton opines via Twitter
The jewelry store billboard was supposed to be a “fun play on words,” one of its owners said. But for some driving along the interstate in Asheville, N.C., the advertisement left a different impression.
Chelsea Clinton opines via Twitter
The jewelry store billboard was supposed to be a “fun play on words,” one of its owners said. But for some driving along the interstate in Asheville, N.C., the advertisement left a different impression.
For the high-end jewelry sellers on the popular online classifieds site Craigslist, it must have seemed like their ship had come in: A prospective buyer in California offered not only their asking price but would fly them into town and have a limo waiting.
(NEW YORK) - Jewelers’ Security Alliance (JSA) has released its 2016 Annual Crime Report covering crime against the jewelry industry in the United States. The total number of crimes against the industry increased from 1,117 in 2015 to 1,245 in 2016, an increase of 5.8%. Total dollar losses also increased from $69.3 million in 2015 to $72.4 million in 2016, an increase of 4.5%. John Kennedy, president of JSA, said that this was the first yearly crime increase against U.S. jewelers since 2012.
Jewelers of America’s (JA) latest Legislative Update covers some of the big policy initiatives - including comprehensive tax reform, a potential import tax and the FTC’s “Cultured Diamond” terminology - that are in play for 2017 and their impact on jewelry businesses.
An African church minister who supplements his meagre stipend by scrabbling for minerals in the artisanal mines of eastern Sierra Leone has discovered one of the largest diamonds ever found.
The 709-carat stone was extracted last week by Emmanuel Momoh, a pastor in one of the myriad churches that ministers to the mining communities of Kono district, the diamond centre that became the crucible of Sierra Leone’s blood-soaked civil war.
(CNN) - Cleopatra wore them. Elizabeth Taylor loved them. Egyptians believed they could bring eternal life.
Though diamonds enjoy the reputation of being a girl's best friend, emeralds in fact are more rare -- and more valuable.
"Sought after for their rich color, regal history and identifiable look, emeralds are one of the most iconic gemstones in the jewelry industry," Amanda Gizzi, a spokesperson for Jewelers of America, a New York-based trade association, said in an email.
Fascinating article details the incredible first gold strike in California, and it's (probably) not the story you thought it was! "The Incredible Story of California's First Gold Strike Takes Place Just Minutes From Downtown L.A." - While most Californians believe that gold was first discovered by James Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, they are mistaken. The first documented gold strike was in fact in a lonely canyon six years before, and the legend of its discovery has grown into the stuff that dreams are made of.
