FANCY COLOUR DIAMONDS – NATURAL FANCY YELLOW DIAMONDS

Diamonds in the normal colour range are colourless through light yellow and are described using the industry’s D-to-Z color-grading scale. Fancy colour diamonds, on the other hand, are yellow and brown diamonds that exhibit colour beyond the Z range, or diamonds that exhibit any other colour face-up. These rare specimens come in every colour of […]

THE STORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND – WHERE IT ALL STARTED

In 1866, Erasmus Jacobs found a tiny white pebble on the De Kalk farm on the banks of the Orange River near Hopetown in the former Cape Colony. That pebble turned out to be a 21.25-carat diamond. It was only five years later that the De Beers brothers gave Dutch diamond prospectors permission to dig on their small […]