Conflict-free diamonds may be the most conscientious way to buy an engagement ring. But the debate over what makes a diamond conflict-free is rife with … well, conflict … so consumers looking for one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picking out an engagement ring is the first step in a life-changing process. No pressure, right? While there’s a certain gravitas ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Consumers should think twice when buying diamonds that could be funding Russia's war, a Ukrainian diplomat said on Friday as a fraught international conflict diamond forum in ...

NEW YORK — Now that plans are in place for diamonds to be rescued from the hands of illicit traders and mines, will jewelry customers breathe a sigh of relief? Will they even notice? As reported, ...

Oh no, it’s like Naomi Campbell all over again! Well, not quite. One of the sponsors of the Daphne Guinness blockbuster exhibition at the Museum at FIT, Leviev Extraordinary Diamonds, has recently ...

NEW YORK — This holiday season some diamond retailers say they are seeing heightened consumer concern about conflict diamonds, the gems mined in war zones that are sold to finance conflict and civil ...

What a fuss a number can make -- one little number. And here it is: Fewer than 1 percent of diamonds on the market today are "conflict diamonds." The number seems surprising, considering all the ...

At least one million African workers earn pennies a day in the backbreaking effort to find diamonds, which themselves have no intrinsic value at all, but serve as symbols of love, wealth and power, ...