Alrosa, the world's largest company in terms of diamond production, as part of the September Hong Kong exhibition of precious stones and jewelery (Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair) introduced an innovative instrument to verify diamonds.
As part of measures to protect the market of natural diamonds from illegal mixing with synthetic diamonds ALROSA jointly with FGBNU "TISNCM" has developed a series of innovative instruments for the verification of individual stones and diamond jewelry.
Device entitled ALROSA Diamond Inspector able to determine the origin of natural diamonds, the diamonds from synthetic diamonds, the diamonds of ennobled diamond, non-diamond modifications simulate polished (simulators), such as cubic zirconia, and other mussanit.
To use the device ALROSA Diamond Inspector does not require special skills, it is easy to manage. It is located on / off button and a selection button language between English and Russian. ALROSA Diamond Inspector weighs less than 1.5 kg and can be powered by the battery (including a smartphone), a computer via USB-port, as well as from the power supply 220 V.
"We invite market participants to open discussion and cooperation for the development of a consolidated position in terms of the formation of industry standards for the developed equipment for the detection of diamonds ", - says Andrey Zharkov, president of ALROSA.
ALROSA is planning to launch the instrument in 2017.
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RapNet, Rapaport's diamond trading site, suspended the membership of 10 companies pending further investigation of the incident involving them. Membership of these companies in the Gemological Institute of America (Gemological Institute of America, GIA) was also suspended. These companies could participate in the scheme of hacking the database and juggling 1,042 gemological reports of the GIA. The laboratory issued a warning to recognize these reports as invalid and promulgated the names of the companies involved.
RapNet removed from its system all the diamonds for which these reports were issued, as well as other diamonds introduced into the system by companies suspected of forging reports.
The GIA asked everyone in whose possession such a diamond or report was found to immediately return them to the GIA for re-examination. Rapaport customers can return gemological reports and diamonds to Rapaport offices in New York, Ramat Gan, Mumbai and Hong Kong.
The companies involved in the incident are A. Lallubhai & Brothers, Admg Diamonds Pvt. Ltd, Darshna Gems, Dirgh Diamond Pvt. Ltd., Mahima Gems, Nidhi Impex, Pansuriya Impex, Shree Yogeshwar Gems, Sitaram Gems and Unity (HK).
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