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Russian mining giant Alrosa recently unearthed a massive 236-carat fancy intense yellow-brown diamond at its Ebelyakh mine in Yakutia. It’s the largest natural color rough diamond ever found in Russia.The beautiful specimen, which seems to display a surreal inner glow, measures 47mm x 24mm x ...

Conor McGregor, one of the most feared mixed martial artists in UFC history, revealed his sensitive side Saturday when he and his longtime girlfriend, Dee Devlin, announced their engagement on McGregor’s Instagram page.In a photo captioned, “What a birthday, my future wife,” McGregor and Devlin ...

A young Long Island man got the best birthday gift he could have ever asked for when a thumbprint locket containing his brother’s ashes was returned to him by a Good Samaritan with a metal detector. Fiction writer and avid metal detectorist Danny McAleese discovered ...

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you fun songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today, country star Jake Owen celebrates a sensational Southern summer in his 2013 release, “Days of Gold.”Owen reminisces about the days of yesteryear when ...

Gemstone lovers rejoiced in the summer of 2016 when two leading jewelry-industry associations recognized spinel as an official birthstone for August. Best known for its vivid red color — but also available in brilliant shades of pink, purple, green and blue — spinel has been ...

Heather Rae Young told her 932,000 Instagram followers that she is “absolutely obsessed” with her new 8.08-carat emerald-cut diamond and that she can’t stop staring at it.The 32-year-old former model and Selling Sunset reality TV star received the gorgeous ring during a romantic beachfront proposal ...

The dramatic fourth and final installment in Gemfields’ short-film series paints a vivid picture of how rubies — “the rarest of all colored gemstones” — are born deep within the Earth.The 78-second film opens with the narrator describing an ominous place, where atoms become minerals ...

Here’s a birthstone riddle for the month of August: What do the world’s largest faceted peridot and the Brooklyn Bridge have in common?If you’re stumped, a little background may help…About the PeridotThe 311-carat faceted peridot (shown in the grouping, above) is currently part of the ...

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you fun songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, country star Cody Johnson’s hands are shaking like a canebrake rattler as he pops the question in his 2011 release, “Diamond In My ...

Today’s virtual tour of the Smithsonian’s National Gem Collection delivers an up-close-and-personal look at the incomparable “Carmen Lúcia Ruby.” The 23.10-carat specimen has the distinction of being the largest faceted ruby in the collection and one of the finest Burmese rubies ever known.Exhibiting a richly ...

In a move that promises to fundamentally change the way diamonds are graded for clarity, the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) has joined forces with tech giant IBM to add artificial intelligence (AI) to the process.GIA, the world’s leading independent diamond identification and grading authority, ...

The emerald-and-diamond engagement ring that billionaire business tycoon Howard Hughes gave to Hollywood legend Katherine Hepburn in 1938 was recently purchased for $108,000 at Los Angeles auction house Profiles in History. The anonymous buyer’s winning bid exceeded the presale high estimate by $78,000.Hughes and Hepburn ...