Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you throwback songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, 1970s icon John Denver copes with separation anxiety by promising a wedding ring in the timeless hit, “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” In this deeply personal song about the heartbreak of being far away from the one you …

With the recent discovery of a 391-carat Type IIa diamond at the Meya Mine in Sierra Leone, the tiny West African nation can now claim to be the source of six of the world's most exceptional rough diamonds. Officially, the still-unnamed stone will slot in at #54 on Wikipedia's "Largest Rough Diamonds" list, joining the Star of Sierra Leone (10th, …

After a six-year legal battle, the fate of a $70,000 diamond solitaire engagement ring will be decided by Massachusetts' highest court. The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments this past Friday in a case that will finally provide clarity to the age-old question: Who gets to keep the diamond engagement ring if the wedding is called off? The final ruling, which …

A perfectly picturesque proposal under the bright lights of Times Square in New York City took a terrible turn for the worse when South Carolinian Chasom Wilson fumbled the engagement ring just before popping the question to his long-time love, Kayla Pressley. This was the small-town couple's first time in New York City and Wilson was not aware of the …

Lucara Diamond Corp. CEO William Lamb recently sang the praises of the company's Mega-Diamond Recovery (MDR) system that's been yielding amazing finds at the company's Karowe Mine in Botswana. Designed to identify and preserve the "biggest of the big," the technology was credited with securing the 2,492-carat stone discovered by the company on August 19. It's the second-largest rough diamond …

Welcome to Music Friday when we often bring you fun singalongs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, we feature a nostalgic ballad from Aussie singer-songwriter Vance Joy. “Like Gold” tells the story of a perfect love, a painful breakup and the promise of a second chance. As many authors and lyricists have done in …

Hailey Bieber just added a sparkly new keepsake to her jewelry wardrobe, a diamond-embellished "MOM" ring that commemorates the birth of Jack Blues Bieber on August 22. The model and skincare entrepreneur showed off the ring on her Instagram Stories on September 3. About two weeks earlier, proud papa Justin shared a pic of his wife holding the baby's foot, …

Fans of the US version of Antiques Roadshow on PBS learned a lot about "Kashmir" sapphires during a fascinating episode that originally aired in May of last year. It's an episode well worth revisiting as we celebrate September's official birthstone. Filmed on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum in rustic Shelburne, VT, the highlight of Season 27 Episode 15 was …

The 330-carat "Star of Asia" is one of the world's finest star sapphires and a brilliant example of September's official birthstone. While the stone is renowned for its impressive size, intense color and sharp star, its origin story is cloaked in mystery. The impressive gem was acquired for the National Gem Collection in 1961 and is a featured attraction at …

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you exciting songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Diamond Rio frontman Marty Roe puts a “big down payment on that itty bitty diamond ring” in the memorable 1998 singalong, “Unbelievable.” In the song written by Jeffrey Steele and Al Anderson, an infatuated Roe is crazy in …