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      (October 24, '10,      - Christie’s Hong Kong will offer at auction over 300 lots of gemstones and jadeite jewelry with a total estimated value of $55 million. Leading the sale is a 14.23-carat fancy intense pink VVS2 rectangular cut diamond ring estimated ...

     (October 21, '10,      - A Bulgari ring set with two large triangular diamonds - a fancy vivid blue, VS2 10.95 carats diamond and 9.87 carats G / VS1 diamond - sold for $15.7 million at Christies Jewel auction yesterday in New York. According to Christies, this ...

(October 20, '10,     - Sotheby’s Geneva Magnificent Jewels auction will include a 24.78-carat fancy intense pink VVS2 emerald cut diamond, though said to have flawless potential after re-polishing.       The fancy pink is a Type IIa diamond, a classification ...

 Cut above the RestThe $8 million iPhone. (Photo: Stuart Hughes/Splash News)October 17, 2010Well-known British jeweller Stuart Hughes, who creates diamond set cell phones, has launched a diamond-set iPhone 4 valued at $8 million which makes it the world's most expensive mobile ...

London: Namakwa Diamonds, a diamond resource group whose operations focus on southern Africa, is tendering an extremely rare large orange diamond at its mine in South Africa's North West Province, the diamond company has announced.   The orange diamond weights 7.53 carats, is assessed to be ...

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        October 07, 2010   A 6.43-carat pink diamond set in a Van Cleef & Arpels ring that sold for $7.7 million set a jewellery auction record for Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, with wealthy Asian buyers snapping up gems, pearls and jade.     The ring, had a ...

               A Barbie doll wearing a necklace set with a one-carat pink diamond to be auctioned on October 20 by Christie's in New York could be the world's most expensive Barbie.     The pre-sale estimate for the doll is $300,000 to $500,000, ...

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