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Description
HRD Antwerp NV is the commercial subsidiary of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC), the private foundation formerly known as the Hoge Raad voor Diamant (HRD). HRD Antwerp operates six services : HRD Diamond Lab, the first ISO-certified diamond lab, which issues one of the world’s most respected diamond certificates; HRD Precious Stones Lab; HRD Education; HRD Graduates Club; HRD Equipment and HRD Research. The HRD Diamond Lab is NBN EN ISO/IEC 17025- certified.
History
From India to Bruges
Nobody knows when the first diamond was discovered. But we do know where this occurred. An extract from a fiscal law book in Sanskrit from the 4th century B.C. ....
Boom and bust in Antwerp
The discovery of a direct sea route to India by Vasco da Gama in 1498 created a shift in the trade balance from Venice to Lisbon. This resulted in the growing ...
New discoveries
In 1866 the first diamonds were discovered in central South Africa. Tradition has it that the “Eureka” was discovered by Erasmus Jacobs, the 15 year old son of a ...
Antwerp revives
The stream of rough diamonds that was the result of the finds in South Africa was an essential contribution to Antwerp regaining its status as the most important ....
The first diamond cartel: De Beers
In 1871 the De Beers brothers, owners of a small farm in the Kimberley district in South Africa, gave a Dutch diamond-hunter permission to prospect on their land. ...
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