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With Russia a leading producer, diamonds have seen their prices plummet since the start of the war in Ukraine. The industry, highly concentrated around a few major players, has been experimenting with synthetic stones and other gems, but is struggling to find a clear-cut solution. The real issue is traceability, which is currently impossible to implement. [...]

The difficulty of tracing the provenance of precious stones comes back to haunt jewellers when they get robbed, as was the case just days ago for Harry Winston and back in 2021 for Chaumet. [...]

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