Jewellery industry is one of the India’s top export earner, amounting to more than 16 billion US dollars, in the fiscal year 2006-07. This coupled with the zero import duty on diamonds entering into India has further enhanced the country to be claimant as a global diamond jewelry trading hub. Importance of Jewelry designers and gemmologists in the Gem and Jewellery field today is very immense. Even the sky rocketing gold prices have not dimmed the hopes of the buyers from buying jewelry. This boom has opened up many more oppurtunities for the jewelry professionals.Many times, I have come across people asking questions like, “Is there any career opportunity as a “jewelry designer”. My answer to this would be a firm “YES!” And I don’t feel there would be any other field where the career opportunities would be so exciting and enticing.Jewelry designers have the choice of working with jewelry stores or big export corporate houses. Multinationals are also on the look out for young talented designers all the time, willing to pay any price for the creativity and art. After getting little experience and knowledge jewelry designers who believe in themselves and want to grow further may also go […]

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There is a very simple logical rule as to why diamonds should not be handled with bare hands. Many people in the diamond industry fail to appreciate this fact and in return harm their diamond business.Diamonds whether studded in jewelry or handled loose, have a natural tendency to draw oil and greasy dirt towards it and every time the diamond is handled by bare hands, it tends to pick up some grease from the hand. As we all know, grease attracts dust particles from the air and eventually there is a layer of grease and dust that covers the surface of the diamond. And we all know that when that takes place the light that reflects from the diamond is affected negatively.The property of diamonds to attract grease has not always been seen as a negative property. In the earlier years, this property of diamonds was effectively used by diamond miners to separate diamonds from other minerals in the same ore. This was done by covering a belt in grease and wax and then allowing the crushed ore to run over the belt. As the crushed ore passed over the greasy belt, the uncut diamond rough would stick to the […]

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