Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you fabulous songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today, music legend Bruce Springsteen performs “Jersey Girl,” a tender ballad about falling head-over-heels in love with a gal from New Jersey. She’s so spectacular in so many ways that Springsteen is confident that some day he’ll ask for …

In the Madhya Pradesh region of central India, 4,700 villagers now have access to clean drinking water thanks to the initiatives of diamond producer Rio Tinto. In the Siberian town of Mirny, 2,000 youngsters take part in more than a dozen sporting activities offered at the state-of-the-art Cultural and Sports Complex built and funded by the diamond mining company ALROSA. …

On Sunday, Canadian rap star Drake gave his 25 million Instagram followers a sneak peek at what he claims are solid gold Air Jordans. Designed and fabricated by mixed-media artist Matthew Senna, the shoes represent a gilded replica of the Air Jordan 10s that Drake’s record label — OVO — created in collaboration with Nike. On Instagram, Drake (a.k.a. Champagne …

Last year, The Perth Mint captivated the imaginations of coin and gemstone lovers alike when it released the “Kimberley Sunset,” a 2-ounce pink gold coin punctuated by a petite .04-carat pink diamond. Last week, the Mint took the concept to new heights by unveiling “The Kimberley Treasure,” a 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) yellow gold coin embellished by an ultra-rare .54-carat red diamond sourced in …

Singapore’s Cé La Vi restaurant and Russia’s World of Diamonds have teamed up to offer the ultimate dining experience. The $2 million dinner for two commences with a romantic helicopter ride over the cosmopolitan city and ends eight hours later — at midnight — with the presentation of The Jane Seymour Vivid Blue diamond ring. One lucky couple will enjoy an …

Welcome to Music Friday when we highlight chart-topping songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Aussie sensation Sia teams up with Jamaican rapper Sean Paul to deliver one of the country’s hottest dance tunes, “Cheap Thrills.” Currently #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song features Paul’s reggae-spiced refrain, “You worth more dan diamonds, …

With the Olympic Games kicking off in Rio de Janeiro in 22 days, we ask you to ponder what seems to be a very silly and simple question: Are the Rio Olympic gold medals really made of gold? Well, the answer is “yes” and “no.” Have you ever wondered how the International Olympic Committee (IOC) could afford to give away pure gold …

A devious gopher, who’s a spitting image of Bill Murray’s nemesis in 1980’s Caddyshack, swipes an engagement ring that a golfer leaves unattended and dives underground to surprise his adorable red-bow-wearing girlfriend with a marriage proposal using the stolen solitaire. That crazy scenario is the theme of a TV commercial promoting Farmers Insurance, a company whose agents “know a thing or …

The 2016 American Eagle one-ounce platinum proof coin earned rock-star status recently when the U.S. Mint exhausted its entire mintage of 10,000 pieces within 56 minutes of the coins going on sale. On the Mint’s website, the coins were priced at $1,350 and purchases were limited to one per household. Despite that limitation, the website processed orders at a rate …

For years we’ve been writing about the incompatible relationship between engagement rings and large bodies of water. Despite the inherent risks of dropping the precious keepsakes in the drink, a cavalcade of can’t-take-a-hint suitors keep making the same mistakes. Which brings us to today’s story of Virginian Jesse Puryear, whose brilliant idea was to propose to his girlfriend, Alexandra Love, while …