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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading high-end jewelry retailer Diamond Mansion is taking its commitment to customer involvement to a new level this Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend. The company has long been leading the way by making it easy and fun to design your own ring, but now it's time to take things to a new level. Other retailers may offer diamond engagement rings on sale, but the Diamond Mansion website will actually allow customers to decide which products...

MODESTO, Calif., Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Diamond Growers' fiscal year 2011-12 sales catapulted to a record $1 billion with two-year growth of $300 million driven by demand for value-added almond products, according to President and CEO Mark Jansen who addressed the cooperative's grower-owners at their 102nd annual meeting. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090608/SF29633LOGO) "We are winning in the marketplace by executing our superior business model, enhancing...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign One of the most promising innovations of nanotechnology has been the ability to perform rapid nanofabrication using nanometer-scale tips. The fabrication speed can be dramatically increased by using heat.  High speed and high temperature have been known to degrade the tip… until now. “Thermal processing is widely used in manufacturing,” according to William King, the College of Engineering Bliss Professor at Illinois. “We have been...

TORONTO, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Harry Winston Diamond Corporation (TSX:HW, NYSE:HWD) ("Harry Winston" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into share purchase agreements with BHP Billiton Canada Inc., and various affiliates to purchase all of BHP Billiton's diamond assets, including its controlling interest in the Ekati Diamond Mine as well as the associated diamond sorting and sales facilities in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Antwerp,...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Purchasing engagement and wedding ring sets can be a real challenge. So many things about it have to be just right and so very specific to that special someone. For more than a quarter century, Diamond Mansion Co. has been making it easy for the public to access the very best in 100% natural and conflict free unique engagement rings and other jewelry. The company's distinctly gorgeous e-commerce site has been making it easy for consumers...

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Centaurus Diamond Technologies Inc. (the "Company" or "Centaurus") (OTCBB: CTDT) continues its drive toward perfecting the manufacture of diamonds through the Magnatek process. US Patent 7,854,823 entitled, "Synthesis of Diamond by Extraction of a Pulse Derived from the Abrupt Collapse of a Magnetic Field", was issued on December 21, 2010. This technology is a process for converting carbonaceous material into diamond, utilizing the compressive...

TORONTO, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Harry Winston Diamond Corporation (TSX: HW, NYSE: HWD) (the "Company"), is pleased to announce that the Company's luxury brand subsidiary, Harry Winston Inc., has completed the syndication of its existing senior secured revolving credit facility by adding an additional US$40 million to its recently completed US$260 million secured five year credit agreement.   The amended facility of US$300 million has no scheduled repayments required prior...

NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dolat Ventures Inc. (OTC: DOLV) a diamond development company focused on its mining projects in West Africa, is pleased to announce its plans to target India as a new resource for potential revenue. Indians have long been the world's biggest buyers of gold -- so much so that changes in their consumption tip the scales of global demand. Recently, those scales have tipped down as China surpassed India in overall gold demand, according to the World...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- To mark the recent popularity of the K-Pop song and dance phenomenon, 'Gangnam Style' by Korean rapper PSY, diamond retailer Brilliance created a custom-made horse diamond pendant for a celebrity whose identity is undisclosed at the moment. The dance craze was the result of a viral YouTube video of the song depicting comedic scenes and dance moves similar to horseback riding. The success of the song in North America is...

The study of materials at extreme conditions took a giant leap forward with the discovery of a way to generate super high pressures without using shock waves whose accompanying heat turns solids to liquid. This discovery will allow scientists for the first time to reach static pressure levels exceeding four million atmospheres, a high-pressure environment where new unique compounds could be formed, materials change their chemical and physical properties and metals become insulators.  An...