Roni Stschik is one of the most unusual persons in the jewelry industry, since he is the most diversified professional, being the cutter and goldsmith, process man and innovating inventor, designer and manager of a young, but already famous company named Majestic Jewelry Ltd. Roni belongs to the third generation of diamantaires and inherited not only his family’s love for work with diamonds, but creativity. Jokingly he says that his company registers more patents than any other in Israel.
The Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant named after V.N. Gulidov is the world’s only manufacturer, which takes all the existing types of raw minerals to process them into eight precious metals: platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, osmium, as well as gold and silver. OAO Krastsvetmet refines about 50% of Russia’s gold and 98% of platinoids. The company’s outlook is described by its General Manager Igor Tikhov.
Her last name meaning “exemplary” suits her as no one else: the artist fanatically devoted to music, the singer for whom her profession is her passion and the paramount sense of life, the magnetic personality, Elena Obraztsova is the first Russian singer who received the status of a legend of the world vocal.The abrupt jump in prices for large-size and high-quality rough diamonds has triggered heated polemics in the professional medium. Key mining companies’ representatives point to the following unbiased reasons: the necessity to switch over to underground mining substantially contributing to cost increase and the shrinking share of high-quality rough in the current mining pattern due to depletion of major primary deposits.
Almost all professional diamond marketers have no doubts that rough prices will continue to rise in the near future. However, no one is ready to give an accurate forecast as to the extent the rough quality will push the prices up. Analysts and spokesmen of large companies confine themselves to general enunciations similar to the one recently expressed by the Rio Tinto representatives that “between 2008 and 2016 the demand for diamonds will significantly exceed their supply.” Meanwhile, the polished diamonds market displayed a peculiar trend: large high-quality diamonds sharply rose in prices (from 10% to 15% for the excellent grade stones of 1 to 3 carats and above), whereas prices for small diamonds were virtually left unchanged. It looks like this time diamond dealers have taken the lead and one cannot but agree there is some logic in this strategy.