Rio Tinto has launched a new collection of rare pink diamonds from its Argyle diamond mine in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Known as the “Argyle Pink Everlastings™ Collection”, this beautiful offering has been curated to showcase the full colour palette of Argyle pink diamonds, weighing 0.14 carats and below.
The Argyle Pink Everlastings™ Collection comprises 64 lots and weighing a total of 211.21carats it represents justtwo per cent of the Argyle pink diamond annual production. It is expected that less than 100 carats of the equivalent profile will be produced by the mine prior to closure in 2020.
Argyle Pink Everlasting Collection
Jewellery historian Vivienne Becker said “ The Everlastings Collection™, representing one of the last offerings of its kind from the Argyle mine, will feed the unstoppable demand from designers and jewellers who appreciate the finite raity of these beautiful gems”.
Encapsulating a rich history and an extraordinary provenance, every lot in the Argyle Pink Everlastings™ Collection is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Rio Tinto Copper & Diamonds vice president of sales and marketing Mr Alan Chirgwin said “ We are delighted to offer for the first time ever this unique collection of rare Argyle pink diamonds, destined to be in strong demand by the world’s finest jewellers.
“The accumulation of these diamonds from a certifiable source in various shapes, sizes and colours is the result of a painstaking endeavour, unlikely to be ever repeated.”
The Argyle Pink Everlastings™ Collection will be tendered alongside the annual Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender in Perth, Singapore, London and New York with bids closing on 9 October 2019.
Rio Tinto has launched a new collection of rare pink diamonds from its Argyle diamond mine in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Known as the “Argyle Pink Everlastings™ Collection”, this beautiful offering has been curated to showcase the full colour palette of Argyle pink diamonds, weighing 0.14 carats and below.
The Argyle Pink Everlastings™ Collection comprises 64 lots and weighing a total of 211.21carats it represents justtwo per cent of the Argyle pink diamond annual production. It is expected that less than 100 carats of the equivalent profile will be produced by the mine prior to closure in 2020.
Argyle Pink Everlasting Collection
Jewellery historian Vivienne Becker said “ The Everlastings Collection™, representing one of the last offerings of its kind from the Argyle mine, will feed the unstoppable demand from designers and jewellers who appreciate the finite raity of these beautiful gems”.
Encapsulating a rich history and an extraordinary provenance, every lot in the Argyle Pink Everlastings™ Collection is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Rio Tinto Copper & Diamonds vice president of sales and marketing Mr Alan Chirgwin said “ We are delighted to offer for the first time ever this unique collection of rare Argyle pink diamonds, destined to be in strong demand by the world’s finest jewellers.
“The accumulation of these diamonds from a certifiable source in various shapes, sizes and colours is the result of a painstaking endeavour, unlikely to be ever repeated.”
The Argyle Pink Everlastings™ Collection will be tendered alongside the annual Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender in Perth, Singapore, London and New York with bids closing on 9 October 2019.
Stornoway Diamond Corp. of Montreal has been granted protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act from the Superior Court of Quebec while the company restructures its business and financial affairs.
Protection is extended to subsidiaries Stornoway Diamonds Canada, Ashton Mining of Canada, and FCDC Sales and Marketing.
Stornoway has signed a letter of intent with creditors Osisko Gold Royalties and Diaquem, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ressources Quebec, concerning a bridge financing agreement entered into in June this year. The LOI confirms that the creditors intend to acquire all of the assets and properties of Stornoway and assume the debts and liabilities owed them as creditors. Stornoway will continue to be the operator of the mine 320 km north of Chibougamau in the James Bay region.
Osisko says that under the terms of the bridge loan, It will retain its 9.6% diamond stream on the Renard mine and continue to receive diamond deliveries. The proceeds of any diamond sales will be reinvested in the mine for a period of one year.
Osisko and certain of the secured creditors have also agreed to supply an initial C$20 million of working capital to Stornoway. The working capital is intended to keep the mine operating without interruption.
Stornoway Diamond Corp. of Montreal has been granted protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act from the Superior Court of Quebec while the company restructures its business and financial affairs.
Protection is extended to subsidiaries Stornoway Diamonds Canada, Ashton Mining of Canada, and FCDC Sales and Marketing.
Stornoway has signed a letter of intent with creditors Osisko Gold Royalties and Diaquem, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ressources Quebec, concerning a bridge financing agreement entered into in June this year. The LOI confirms that the creditors intend to acquire all of the assets and properties of Stornoway and assume the debts and liabilities owed them as creditors. Stornoway will continue to be the operator of the mine 320 km north of Chibougamau in the James Bay region.
Osisko says that under the terms of the bridge loan, It will retain its 9.6% diamond stream on the Renard mine and continue to receive diamond deliveries. The proceeds of any diamond sales will be reinvested in the mine for a period of one year.
Osisko and certain of the secured creditors have also agreed to supply an initial C$20 million of working capital to Stornoway. The working capital is intended to keep the mine operating without interruption.
A flawless white diamond with a high estimate of $19 million will feature in Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite auction in Hong Kong next months.
The emerald cut, 80.88 carat, D color, type IIa stone is valued at $12.8 million to $19.1 million USD, and is one of only five emerald cut diamonds over 80 carats offered in auction history, Sotheby’s said Monday.
A 10.64 carat, fancy vivid purplish pink, internally flawless diamond, polished as a radiant cut, with the outline of an emerald cut, is set to go under the hammer at the October 7 sale for $19.1 million to $25.5 million. The auction house will also feature a necklace by designer Anna Hu, containing a 100.02-carat, fancy intense yellow diamond, estimated at $5.1 million to $6.4 million.
“It is thrilling to be able to bring together three top class diamonds this autumn, all of which are exceptional in quality and rarely seen on the market, let alone presented in a single sale,” said Yvonne Chu, acting head of Sotheby’s Hong Kong jewelry division. “We are set for a bright season ahead.”
Also up for auction are an 11.88 carat, pigeon’s blood Burmese ruby and diamond ring, mounted by designer Raymond Yard and valued at $5.6 million to $8.2 million, and a jadeite bead necklace with a diamond clasp, estimated at $3.2 million to $4.1 million.
Other notable items include a 19th century 37.29 carat sapphire and diamond brooch. The piece, which Richard Burton gave to Elizabeth Taylor during their marriage, has a presale estimate of $1.7 million to $2.3 million.
Sotheby’s will showcase the pieces throughout Asia before the auction.
A flawless white diamond with a high estimate of $19 million will feature in Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite auction in Hong Kong next months.
The emerald cut, 80.88 carat, D color, type IIa stone is valued at $12.8 million to $19.1 million USD, and is one of only five emerald cut diamonds over 80 carats offered in auction history, Sotheby’s said Monday.
A 10.64 carat, fancy vivid purplish pink, internally flawless diamond, polished as a radiant cut, with the outline of an emerald cut, is set to go under the hammer at the October 7 sale for $19.1 million to $25.5 million. The auction house will also feature a necklace by designer Anna Hu, containing a 100.02-carat, fancy intense yellow diamond, estimated at $5.1 million to $6.4 million.
“It is thrilling to be able to bring together three top class diamonds this autumn, all of which are exceptional in quality and rarely seen on the market, let alone presented in a single sale,” said Yvonne Chu, acting head of Sotheby’s Hong Kong jewelry division. “We are set for a bright season ahead.”
Also up for auction are an 11.88 carat, pigeon’s blood Burmese ruby and diamond ring, mounted by designer Raymond Yard and valued at $5.6 million to $8.2 million, and a jadeite bead necklace with a diamond clasp, estimated at $3.2 million to $4.1 million.
Other notable items include a 19th century 37.29 carat sapphire and diamond brooch. The piece, which Richard Burton gave to Elizabeth Taylor during their marriage, has a presale estimate of $1.7 million to $2.3 million.
Sotheby’s will showcase the pieces throughout Asia before the auction.
Russia’s Alrosa is talking to several global jewelery retailers about jointly marketing the miner’s jewelery brand that uses fluorescent diamonds, as it strives to create a new niche for the natural stones.
Diamond miners, which have long excelled at marketing, are seeking new approaches to battle falling demand and competition from diamonds manufactured in laboratories.
“We are completing talks with several major companies in different regions,” Alrosa Chief Executive Sergei Ivanov told Reuters.
Alrosa, which now sells these diamonds mixed with others in “lots”, expects the retailers to start offering its fluorescent stones in a year under the brand “Luminous Diamonds”, which it has recently created, in separate corners of their stores.
The aim is to create a new market for stones with fluorescence, often a blueish glow visible under light, that are still considered by many traders as being of lower quality.
Global demand for all types of diamonds has been hit by a trade war between the United States and China, the world’s two biggest diamond markets. Prices for smaller stones have fallen as deliberate output reductions have yet to remove oversupply. Alrosa and its competitors, chiefly Anglo American’s (AAL.L) De Beers, are betting on a “value over volume” strategy. Alrosa expects to produce 38.5 million carats in 2019 but will sell only 32 million to 33 million carats, stockpiling the rest until better days.
Alrosa does not disclose the names of the retailers it is talking to but says it has no plans to start its own retail business. Product sales will be organized by retailers via their own distribution chains.
“Our aim is to supply fluorescent polished diamonds – cut by Alrosa or its clients – to retailers and provide marketing support, including jewelery design if needed,” Ivanov said.
FLUORESCENT ADOLESCENT Fluorescence, a bluish glow produced by ultraviolet rays from a lamp or the sun, is a characteristic of 25% to 35% of diamonds, according to the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). It is not bad for the precious stone, according to GIA, and it is not a grading factor like the traditional 4Cs — color, clarity, cut and carat weight — used to determine quality.
About half of all diamonds produced globally have some fluorescence, while 3% to 10% have strong fluorescence, Ivanov said.
But such diamonds are more difficult to sell as many traders now consider stones with more fluorescence as lower quality, so they often trade at a 25% to 45% discount, even though they could demand a premium several decades ago, he said.
With global annual rough diamond sales of $15 billion and diamond jewelery demand at $85 billion, any new marketing niche is attractive for the entire supply chain.
Diamond industry players have long been betting on “millennial”, born between the early 1980s and early 2000s, and “generation Z”, born from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, as drivers of growth in jewelery demand as their spending power rises.
Alrosa aims to woo this generation with florescent stones.
Recent research conducted by a consulting company for Alrosa in the United States and China showed millennial liked the stones for their unusual quality in jewelery, Ivanov said.
Alrosa fluorescence diamond daylight and black-light “We saw that it can become a fashionable product and interesting for these young people,” he said.
The same research also showed positive results among women, so the “Luminous Diamonds” brand sought to appeal to women’s independence and purchasing power, which was rising in the United States, China and India, the CEO added.
“It will be a special line. A diamond which glows in a night club, in a theater or even in the rays of sun,” Ivanov said. “We see this demand in opinion polls and are sure that we will convert it into sales.”
