Russian diamond miner Alrosa in February sold rough and polished diamonds worth $345-million, which was up 23% compared with January’s sales of $281-million, but down significantly on the $541.9-million sold a year earlier.
Rough diamond sales in Febr…
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De Beers Group Industry Services on Tuesday announced that all four of its diamond verification instruments (DVIs) submitted for testing as part of the Assure programme had received “outstanding” results. The Assure programme is a joint collaboration b…
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De Beers Group Industry Services on Tuesday announced that all four of its diamond verification instruments (DVIs) submitted for testing as part of the Assure programme had received “outstanding” results. The Assure programme is a joint collaboration b…
De Beers’ diamonds receive Assure approval Read More »
TSX-V-listed Tsodilo Resources says its BK16 kimberlite project, in the Orapa kimberlite field, in Botswana, is well placed to enter the market once the mine is established.
In a presentation published by the company this week, Tsodilo stated that BK…
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Diamond miner De Beers on Tuesday reported that the value of its rough diamond sales for cycle two of the year was $490-million, compared with $500-million in cycle one and $563-million in cycle two of 2018.
This brings the provisional total for roug…
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The Orion South diamond project, in central Saskatchewan, has been confirmed to contain an high proportion of rare type diamond – Type IIa – which account for less than 2% of all natural diamonds mined from kimberlites.
A recent study has confirmed th…
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De Beers Group on Thursday night celebrated the successful conclusion of the first phase of its Enterprise Development Project for Diamond Beneficiators. Five black South African-owned diamond and cutting companies graduated following a three-year entr…
De Beers honours Diamond Beneficiators project’s first graduates Read More »
As this is the final year of the Kimberley Process’ (KP’s) three-year review, the organisation must grasp the opportunity to correct failings in the system designed to prevent conflict diamonds from entering the distribution chain, World Diamond Counci…
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Aim- and Botswana Stock Exchange-listed Botswana Diamonds on Thursday announced that the first phase of the intensification drilling programme at its Thorny River prospect, in South Africa, has been concluded. Eighteen holes have been drilled with 12 …
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Diamond miner Lucapa Diamond Company has generated a further A$5.3-million in revenue from the sale of 5 411 ct of rough diamonds recovered from its Mothae operation, in Lesotho, during January.
The diamonds were recovered during the ramp-up of the 1….
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