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Week in Photos - July 10, 2016
An infamous jewelry store robber admits her act and a big book on gems is set to debut. Read all about it and more in this week’s photo rewind.
This week, the woman wanted in a string of armed jewelry store robberies across the Southeast pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court while Jewelers of America announced the winner of the next Gem Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Also, Peter Smith wrote about reasonable sales goals and news surfaced that the Smithsonian would be publishing a new book on gemstones in the fall.
Read it all in The Week in Photos.
Amazon said its second “Prime Day” now ranks as the biggest sales day in its 21-year history.
Dominion Diamond Corp. lowered its outlook for rough diamond output at its Ekati mine in Canada after a small fire forced the miner to shut down the site’s processing plant for three months.
This week’s column was by Peter Smith, who wrote about the importance of creating sales goals that are both reasonable and attainable.
Gemfields recently secured $65 million in funding, $45 million of which will be used to ramp up production at its Montepuez ruby mine in Mozambique.
Also on Monday, Jewelers of America announced that the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the next Gem Awards will be Jim Rosenheim of Tiny Jewel Box.
A new Smithsonian-produced book is coming out this fall that combines the science, natural history and mythology behind gemstones into one 440-page tome.
Abigail Lee Kemp, the infamous female armed robber who hit a string of stores in the Southeast, pleaded guilty to four charges in a Florida federal court Monday.
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