DIAMONDS

The World Diamond Council says governments have failed to reach consensus on a strengthened scope for the Kimberley Process (KP) during this year’s KP plenary meeting, which was held in India earlier this week. The meeting was expected to discuss the e…

Mining major Rio Tinto this week tendered a collection of 64 rare pink and red diamonds from its iconic Argyle mine, in Western Australia.

The 2019 collection, the 35th tender since the mine began production, saw double digit growth in the number of b…

The unusual “diamond in a diamond” that Russian miner Alrosa mined earlier this year, will not be put up for sale and will remain in the company’s collection of rare finds.

The collection already includes a skull-shaped rough diamond and a football-sh…

Namdeb, a joint venture between the Namibian government and Anglo American’s diamond unit De Beers Group, said on Thursday it was in talks with the government about tax breaks to extend its land-based operations beyond 2023. Diamond mining is the large…

World Diamond Council (WDC) president Stephane Fischler says that although the Kimberley Process (KP) requires a political process, it is in the collective interest of all participants that rough diamonds meet the expectations of the market.

He opene…

Diamond miner Trans Hex expects the delisting of its shares on the JSE to be concluded on December 3. It proposed the delisting in July, when it announced a share buyback programme to purchase the issued share capital of shareholders at R1 apiece.

Diamond miner Lucapa has recovered two diamonds larger than 100 ct each from its Mothae kimberlite mine, in Lesotho.

The ASX-listed company on Monday said that a 22 ct diamond and a 127 ct diamond were recovered from the treatment of recovery tailings…

London-listed Petra Diamonds has effected some organisational changes to help facilitate the rapid execution of its Project 2022 strategy.

These changes include a flatter management structure, with mines now reporting directly to CE Richard Duffy.

British Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has indicated that it intends to exercise its options under a 2017 option-and-joint-venture agreement with Saskatoon-based explorer Star Diamonds, which owns the Fort a la Corne kimberlites in central Saskatche…

London-listed Petra Diamonds has sold a 20.08 ct blue diamond, recovered at its Cullinan mine, in South Africa, in September, for $14.9-million. This represents a value of about $741 000/ct.