Diamonds are expensive because they’re rare, but high-end jewellers are increasingly embracing colourful alternatives like aquamarines, garnets and tsavorites for added sparkle Breaking news: ...

From Completedwork’s rose quartz choker and Agate stone cord necklace, to Zara’s ring stack and Lizzie Fortunato’s cascading ...

Should a top-grade tanzanite that is worth more than a diamond be considered a precious or semi-precious stone? And if a 1ct sapphire is the same price as a 5ct opal, which is a better buy? These ...

As we slide into the quarter-century mark — and Happy New Year, by the way — there are some interesting things going on in the jewelry business. It wasn’t long ago that diamond jewelry was all about ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The star of this year’s Chanel Escale à Venise high jewellery collection was a large necklace that tried to ...

On a site on Carlisle in Cumbria, England, that once held a high-status Roman bathhouse, archaeologists have unearthed 34 gems, variously cut from amethyst, jasper, and cornelian, and dating back to ...

Around 1920, an experienced mine worker called Justo Daza and a mining engineer named Fritz Klein, were scrambling over the steep mountainside terraces of Chivor – a legendary emerald site in ...

A collection of precious gems, cut and donated by experts from across the UK, is being auctioned in Scotland for Children in Need. The auction is being overseen by renowned Edinburgh gemmologist ...