jewelry

By some measures, diamond prices have been cut in half since a peak during the pandemic.

Master jeweler Todd Bracken owns a small-scale gold mine in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

Silver and gold prices are up more than 60% and 20% over the past six months, respectively. That means repricing and worry for the owner of Agapantha Jewelry in Torrance, CA.

It might appraise for a lot more than the retail price, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get that amount if you try to sell it.

Silversmithing is a traditional artform and a livelihood for Indigenous artists across the southwestern U.S.

It used to take the Earth 3 billion years, 2,000-degree temperatures, a little carbon and a lot of pressure to grow a diamond. Now, a new machine can do it in five days.

“As materials’ cost balloon the way they have these past couple of weeks … I can’t continue to sell them at the prices that I was before,” said Isabel Dennis at KIMA Jewelry.

Even the pros have trouble with certain pieces of jewelry. But there’s at least one reliable way to verify what you’re buying.

A stylist joined Marketplace to explain how actresses arrange to wear dazzling accessories during awards season. And yes, security is involved.

Exotic crystals grown for science and industry that don’t make the cut for the lab are being repurposed as jewelry.