Lower priced lab-grown diamonds have disrupted the jewelry market, causing natural diamond sales to drop. However, a countertrend of raw, uncut diamonds is emerging.

Prices for rough diamonds — the raw, unpolished, and uncut stones — have dipped in 2023 as many post-pandemic consumers shy away from luxury goods. According to the Zimnisky Global Rough Diamond Index ...

The diamond industry is in freefall. A structural shift driven by lab-grown gems, weak consumer demand, and a pullback in key markets has pushed prices to their lowest levels in years, rattling miners ...

A surge in demand for lab-grown stones has weakened a key corner of the diamond market, Bloomberg reported. Diamond demand has softened since the pandemic, but the rough-diamond market has seen sharp ...

Natural diamonds stand apart because their appeal is rooted in permanence. Formed over billions of years, they move from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The more synthetic diamonds enter the market, the more desirable the natural ones become,” said Maya Bjørnsten, Rough Diamonds ...