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Sotheby’s Diamonds has launched a limited collection of diamond jewelry that is available for viewing at its newly refurbished Hong Kong salon.

What does a million-dollar Halloween costume look like? Hint: It gives new meaning to the phrase “dripping with diamonds.” The Million Dollar Morphsuit is encrusted head to toe with 70,000 diamonds.

Christie’s Geneva will conduct its fall sale of magnificent jewels on November 11, featuring more than 390 lots. The jewelry auction is estimated to achieve a sales total in excess of $80 million.

Sotheby’s New York will auction jewels from the collections of Estée Lauder and Evelyn H. Lauder as part of its magnificent jewels sale on December 9, 2014.

For its 30th anniversary collection, Rio Tinto had offered 54 rare pink and red diamonds from its Argyle diamond mine. The sale garnered the highest average price per carat since the Tender began in 1984.

Sotheby's Geneva will hold its magnificent jewels and noble jewels sale on November 12. The collection includes important jewels from the collection of Dimitri Mavrommatis, as well as a selection of historic jewels with noble provenance.

India's diamond industry will come to a halt from around October 20 onwards for the Diwali vacation. In Surat, the country's main diamond manufacturing center, more than 4,000 diamond factories will close for at least three weeks.

The September Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair set new records at its 32nd edition, with 3,695 exhibitors from 49 countries and regions and a total of 59,116 unique buyers from 157 countries and regions.

Graff Diamonds has released more pieces that it introduced at the recently concluded La Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris. Known as the Nuage collection, the high jewelry line keeps in the tradition of gem-centric pieces that the London-based jeweler is known for.

A team of researchers at Penn State University said it has produced ultrathin diamond nanothreads that could just possibly lead to the production of a space elevator between earth and the moon.