For the fifth year in a row, Valentine shoppers will be spending more on jewelry than any other category, according to a survey just released by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics. The NRF is estimating that jewelry gifts will account for $4.1 billion, or 18.8% of the overall Valentine's Day […]
Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you great songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today, Beyoncé and Destiny's Child sing about female empowerment and financial independence in their 2000 hit, "Independent Women Part 1," from the movie Charlie's Angels. Sixth on Harper's Bazaar's 2020 list of the 41 […]
Signaling a brilliant start to 2021, Lucara Diamond Corp. just unveiled a pair of 300-plus-carat, top-quality white diamonds from its prolific Karowe Mine in Botswana. The 341-carat and 378-carat, unbroken, Type IIa gems are the 54th and 55th diamonds greater than 200 carats to be recovered from Karowe since 2015. (Type IIa diamonds are colorless […]
Great news! Valentine's Day comes out on a Sunday this year, which makes it the perfect time to pop the question with the perfect ring. Millions of suitors will take advantage of their day off to execute the perfect surprise proposal. It may start off with a romantic outing — a return to the scene […]
Gold Rush star Parker Schnabel can hardly believe his eyes when he comes face to face with an exact replica of the "Welcome Stranger," the largest gold nugget ever found at 72kg (158.7 lbs). In the Season 4, Episode 2, installment of Gold Rush: Parker's Trail, we find Schnabel half a world away from the […]
The Maryland Zoo has given gemstone names to the first four chicks from this year's breeding class of endangered African penguins. On its Twitter page, zoo officials explained that the adorable hatchlings are being named for gems because they are also precious and rare. The zoo posted to its Twitter page individual graphics to represent […]
Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you fun tunes with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today we have Huey Lewis and the News performing “The Power of Love” from the blockbuster film, Back to the Future. In the chart-topping 1985 hit, Lewis claims that the power of love is […]
Millennials rank natural diamond jewelry as the most desirable luxury item, according to survey results just released by the Natural Diamond Council. When offered a list of nine luxury gifts and and asked to consider which they would most want to buy or receive if money were no object, millennials (currently aged 25–39) rated natural […]
With the fate of the rescheduled Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in serious jeopardy due to a surge of coronavirus cases in Japan, there's a very real possibility that all the work that went into designing the medals and procuring the recycled precious metal to create them may have been in vain. The 2020 Summer Olympics […]
Some time long ago, your elementary school teacher introduced you to "homophones," those fun words — such as so, sew and sow — that sound alike, but have very different meanings. Which brings us to today's quiz: Can you identify all four words in the English language that are pronounced "keh·ruht"? Here's a hint: Each […]