Petra Diamonds has halted production at its Williamson mine in Tanzania for at least three months following a wall breach.The pause will give the company time to build a new tailings storage facility that was already under construction before last week’s incident at the site. The new facility.
Revenue from Richemont’s jewelry brands was solid in the first fiscal half as demand grew in all regions and the Asia-Pacific market recovered.Sales from the company’s jewelry maisons Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Buccellati rose 24% year on year to EUR 6.34 billion ($6.58 billion).
A blue diamond weighing 5.53 carats failed to find a buyer at Sotheby’s Geneva on Wednesday despite being billed as the star of the auction. The cushion brilliant-cut, fancy-vivid-blue diamond is part of an eight-piece group called the De Beers Exceptional Blue Collection, which Sotheby’s has.
Kering-owned jewelry brand Pomellato has established a long-term equity partnership with an Italian goldsmith company that will help improve its manufacturing capabilities.The minority interest in Valenza-based Costanzo & Rizzetto will provide Pomellato with additional productive capability.
The Fortune Pink diamond was the top seller at Tuesday’s Christie’s jewelry auction in Geneva, bringing in nearly $29 million.The 18.18-carat stone, the largest pear-shaped, fancy-vivid-pink diamond ever offered at auction, fetched CHF 28.4 million ($28.9 million) at the November 8 Magnificent.