“Understanding our impact on the environment, societies and communities in which we operate is integral to our important consumer protection mission,” said GIA President and CEO Susan Jacques, speaking about the launch of the first GIA sustainability report on Friday, June 2, at the JCK Las Vegas show.

GIA is adding a report comment employing the trade color term “Peacock” for designated colors of cultured pearls from the Pinctada margaritifera black-lipped pearl oyster, commonly known as Tahitian pearls.

GIA will return to producing printed GIA Diamond Dossier reports beginning April 9.

As a leading educational institute, GIA helps educate the next generation of gem and jewelry professionals in gemology, jewelry design and jewelry manufacturing arts.

Scientists at the GIA laboratory in New York City recently discovered spinel treated by nickel diffusion in a parcel of gems acquired for research purposes by the GIA research team in Bangkok.

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA), the leading gemological grading and identification organization, is now offering a lower-cost GIA Laboratory-Grown Diamond Report - Dossier.

CARLSBAD, Calif. – Dec. 2, 2021 – The joy diamonds bring to people’s lives and the confidence inspired by a diamond grading report from the experts at GIA are at the center of GIA’s first new global consumer marketing campaign in more than a decade.