A company claims to have bested Corning's ultra-tough smartphone display tech with diamond-reinforced glass that's nearly four times as crack-resistant and seven times more scratch-proof than Gorilla Glass.
According to Mashable, the company figured how to create diamond-reinforced glass, with help of synthetic diamonds. AKHAN managed to apply a “nanometers-thin film of synthetic diamond.
Antwerp Diamond District is the area where 80% of the world’s diamond trade takes place. It is a small area. With 4 diamond stock exchanges and 1500 trading offices, this translates to a turnover of more than $ 42 billion a year.
A couple in the UK bought a dusty old chair for just 5 pounds only to discover years later diamond jewellery worth 5,000 pounds hidden inside it.
Chow Tai Fook is looking to supply diamonds to U.S. retailers as the jeweler seeks new revenue streams following a sales slump in China and Hong Kong.
The US government has finalized a deal to guarantee loans to Botswana’s diamond manufacturers through a $125 million credit agreement between Barclays Bank Botswana and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
The U.S. government has agreed to guarantee a $125 million loan to Botswana’s diamond manufacturing industry to promote local job creation and strengthen the nation’s economic growth.
South Africa has a deserved reputation as a superb destination in which to spot wildlife, but another natural resource is now being put under the spotlight with the launch of the country’s (and the world’s) first diamond safari.
According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 20 countries around the world in the production of natural diamond, whose reserves are about 2.1 billion carats, and speculative reserves of about 3 billion carats.
A diverse team of researchers with members from Germany, France, Russia and the U.S. has subjected a sample of bridgmanite to conditions believed to be present at Earth's lower mantle and has found that it remained stable.
Researchers have demonstrated how to control the "electron spin" of a nanodiamond while it is levitated with lasers in a vacuum, an advance that could find applications in quantum information processing..
Anxiety over security of tenure forced diamond mining companies to haphazardly exploit gems in Marange, according to a former senior official at a newly established consolidated government outfit.
Resin-based diamond grinding wheel has good self-sharpening, high grinding efficiency and other advantages, so it is widely used for grinding ceramics, glasses, cemented carbide and other hard brittle materials.
Canada has two diamond projects that are expected to start first production during the current quarter, as De Beers Canada’s Gahcho Kué project, in the Northwest Territories.
STANDARD Chartered (Stanchart) is exiting its $2bn diamond financing business because it does not comply with stricter lending standards set by CEO Bill Winters.
The diamond industry has cleaned up its act and is more transparent than ever before, senior executives have claimed, ahead of the launch of a new marketing campaign targeting young consumers.
The global market size of diamond tools has been more than $20 billion. The unit prices of synthetic diamond products are decreasing, but the scale of the industry as a whole is still maintaining high-speed growth.
On the semi-frozen surface of Faraday Lake in Canada's subarctic, two diamond rigs are drilling around the clock. It's spring breakup north of the 63rd parallel, which means the Kennady Diamonds exploration team is running out of time.
These synthetic diamonds are specially designed, which not only keep the characteristics of natural diamond, but also have the ability of filtering electronics. The most important of all is that the cost of synthetic diamond can be controlled.
DiCaprio's tweet last November announcing his "proud" investment in a company "reducing human and environmental toll by sustainably culturing diamonds" alerted the planet to the little-known start-up co-founded in 2012