The new year started off with a bang for two of the world's most famous diamond mines. On January 9, Gem Diamonds unearthed a high-quality 295-carat stone at its prolific Letšeng mine in Lesotho. Only one day later, Lucara Diamond Corp. showed off a 166-carat sparkler from its Karowe mine in Botswana. Both mining companies described their finds as white, …

Since 2019, the Royal Canadian Mint has been celebrating the Great White North's cultural diversity with an annual release of gem-adorned gold coins. The 2024 installment, which honors Canadians who trace their ancestry to Iran, Ancient Persia and beyond, is set with a genuine turquoise in the center of a 99.99% pure gold, 1-ounce coin. The coin's intricately rendered reverse …

The De Beers Group will be investing $1 billion to extend the life of what the company's CEO calls "the world’s greatest diamond mine." What Al Cook is referring to is Botswana's prolific Jwaneng Mine, which has produced nearly 11 million carats of high-quality diamonds per year for the past 40 years. Jwaneng is an open-pit mine lying above three …

As a record-breaking Arctic blast blankets the US heartland with ice and snow, it's raining liquid sapphires and rubies on the heavy metal exoplanet called WASP-121b, where temperatures regularly soar to 4,700 degrees Celsius (8,492 degrees Fahrenheit). A team of astronomers led by European Space Agency research fellow Quentin Changeat analyzed three years of data collected by the Hubble Space …

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you fantastic songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, OneRepublic frontman and songwriter Ryan Tedder emphasizes the importance of overcoming obstacles and enjoying life to the fullest in the international hit, "I Ain't Worried." He sings, "I don't know what you've been told / But time is …

An adorable toddler earned instant fame after a video surfaced of her innocently — and hilariously — photobombing her parents' seaside marriage proposal. In the video shared by Today show host Hoda Kotb Tuesday for her popular segment called "Hoda's Morning Boost," we see an unnamed couple and their daughter at the beach with a glorious sunset in the background. …

The man who pleaded guilty in October to stealing a pair of Ruby Slippers from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005 — and then ditching them when he discovered the footwear's embellishments included no precious gemstones — will be spared prison time due to his fading health. In May of 2023, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against 76-year-old …

A FedEx courier rushes bridal jewelry to a beach wedding in the company's newly launched animated ad campaign titled "Tall Tales of True Deliveries." The 30-second spots created by New York-based agency BBDO position FedEx employees as superheroes in a series that will drive home the theme that their dedicated team will always go the extra mile. In the first …

The surface of Mercury, the tiniest planet in the solar system and the one that orbits closest to the Sun, could be littered with an untold wealth of diamonds, according to researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Zhuhai, China. NASA’s Messenger was the first spacecraft to orbit the planet back in 2011. It took nearly seven years for the probe …

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you fun songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Twenty One Pilots’ frontman Tyler Joseph delivers a heartfelt tribute to his mom in the 2013 release, “House of Gold.” In this song about the fear of growing old, Joseph’s mom asks her singer/songwriter son if he’ll take …