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Diamond prices have adjusted to consumers choosing services over jewelry. People are eating out, traveling and spending money on experiences rather than luxury goods, according to analysts.
Prices for rough diamonds — the raw, unpolished, and uncut stones — have dipped in 2023 as many post-pandemic consumers shy away from luxury goods.
Each grid has the clarity options on the horizontal line and the color options on the vertical line. In order to calculate the price of a diamond according to the Rapaport Price List, you need to know the size, color and clarity of the diamond. The price listed based on this information is in hundreds of dollars per carat. [3]
The Fancy Color Research Foundation was founded in 2005 when the organization began to collect data for fancy color diamond wholesale market prices. Data was collected for nearly ten years before the first quarterly update of the Fancy Color Diamond Index (FCDI) in January 2015. [3]
Today, most commercially viable diamond deposits are in Russia (mostly in Sakha Republic, for example Mir pipe and Udachnaya pipe), Botswana, Australia (Northern and Western Australia) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [140] In 2005, Russia produced almost one-fifth of the global diamond output, according to the British Geological Survey.
In its Global Diamond Report 2014, Bain & Co reports that demand for investment diamonds accounts for less than 5% of the total value of polished diamonds. [14] It also reports that diamond prices have benefited from 1.6x lower volatility than gold. Characteristics of investment-grade polished diamonds are highest color (D, E, F) and clarity ...
The following is a list of countries and territories by diamond exports. Data is for 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2023 in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity and the International Trade Centre. Currently the countries exporting over one billion dollars in 2023 are listed:
The Moussaieff Red Diamond (formerly known as the Red Shield Diamond) is a diamond measuring 5.11 carats (1.022 g) with a triangular brilliant cut (sometimes called a trillion or a trilliant cut), rated in color as Fancy Red by the Gemological Institute of America. It is the world's largest known red diamond, the rarest of all diamond colors.