{"id":719,"date":"2026-08-11T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/?p=719"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:05:27","slug":"rough-diamond-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/2026\/08\/11\/rough-diamond-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Diamond News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"feedzy-de98308d8f6ec9c412409c6f39924687 feedzy-rss\"><div class=\"rss_header\"><h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/RSS\/Rough_Market.rss\" class=\"rss_title\" rel=\"noopener\">IDEX Online - Rough Market<\/a> <span class=\"rss_description\"> Rough Market<\/span><\/h2><\/div><ul><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">GIA Impostor Alert: CVD Rough Made to Mimic Natural Diamond<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 17 August 2026 at 4:00 pm <\/small><p>A rough diamond submitted to the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) turned out to be a CVD lab grown that had been deliberately cut to look like a natural stone.    The 6.87-carat near-colorless crystal closely resembled a natural rough octahedron, say the ...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">AI Drives China's 65% Surge in Lab Grown Exports<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 12 August 2026 at 5:00 am <\/small><p>China's lab-grown diamond exports jumped 65.3% in the first half of 2026, driven in part by rising overseas demand for synthetic stones used to cool high-performance AI chips, official trade data show.    The value of lab-grown diamond exports cleared through...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Lucara Sells World's Second-Largest Diamond<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 11 August 2026 at 10:00 am <\/small><p>Lucara has sold the world's second-largest diamond, the 2,488-carat Motswedi, for an undisclosed price.    The sale was included in the Canadian miner's second-quarter results, which reported total revenue of $41.0 million for the three months ended June 30...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Finsch to Close as Small Stone Prices Collapse<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 10 August 2026 at 12:00 pm <\/small><p>Petra Diamonds is to close its Finsch mine, in South Africa, blaming a collapse in demand for smaller rough.    The decision follows the failure of a business-rescue process to find a viable way to restart mining.    Creditors approved a plan on 7 August for the ...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Russia to Create \"Europe's Largest Diamond Cutting Cluster\"<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 10 August 2026 at 6:00 am <\/small><p>ussia is to create what it describes as the largest cluster of diamond-cutting facilities in Europe, in a move aimed at retaining more value from its stones.    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