Laboratory Diamond News
- De Beers SA South Africa was founded in 1888 by Cecil Rhodes.
- The company is headquartered in London United Kingdom.
- The company is an international corporation.
- De Beers is a mining company, it primarily mines diamonds.
Laboratory Diamond News
WORLDS LARGEST NATURAL DIAMOND MINING CONTROLLER SPEAKS OUT
De Beers SA a division of Anglo American plc a British multinational mining company in fact began a campaign (search news De Beers SA enters lab grown diamond market) to invest in and manufacture laboratory diamonds to expand their business model and make affordable laboratory diamonds at fractions of the price of the current laboratory diamonds and natural diamonds alike.
Currently laboratory diamonds are targeting the younger consumer market, the worlds largest generation of young buyers globally.
August 2018 articles all shared this basic story from De Beers SA
The new brand for De Beers SA is Lightbox Jewelry and the company is invested heavily in marketing and branding the laboratory diamonds De Beers manufactures, this is a great way to by laboratory diamonds.
Laboratory diamonds only account for 2% of the global market as of 2018 with projections to hit 10% by 2030 as percentages of the total diamond market in sales.
Current as of the released 2017 report for estimates of total natural diamond sales which are still growing upward in annual percentages were US .500.000.000 Billion Dollars.
This is great news and only half the story for us here at Active Atom holders of the domain name Laboratory Diamonds .com
We have owned the domain name since January 2005.
Here is the status update for 2019/2020 following the Las Vegas JCK convention after the De Beers SA announcement a few years ago. Headlines and stories about the growth (pun intended) of Laboratory Diamonds continues to grow, still showing while there are many manufacturers of laboratory grown diamonds making more crystal growing from atop a single seed even being applied onto existing diamonds globally the demand is really going well.
Laboratory diamonds are selling well to the younger new buyer which means that laboratory diamond demand is only going to come along through all of the cycles a young adult encounters on their path that is life, how GREAT is that to know.
De Beers SA through Lightbox to open another laboratory diamond manufacturing plant coming online in Gresham, Oregon in 2020.
Jewelers of America National Convention 2019 New York
So in closing, about quoting these articles here, we read more articles after each major jewelry, stone and diamond trade show or convention and reports of the growth of the technology matching natures diamonds through a laboratory are really on the move, there are no signs of this growth slowing down anytime soon.
Who is De Beers SA?
Currently De Beers is controlled by Anglo American plc the worlds largest producer of platinum who has the controlling interest in the De Beers SA mining operations.
Anglo American plc controls 85% of De Beers SA, the worlds largest diamond mining operator and though De Beers used to claim 85% control of the Diamond production industry they claim this to be 35% to 40% in these current times (we remain uncertain here to these percentages).