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Diamond market crash is Africa’s opportunity, not its crisis – M'zée Fula Ngenge
Global natural diamond supply is forecast to fall below 95 million carats this year, the lowest since 1987. For Dr. M'zée Fula Ngenge, chairperson of the African Diamond Council (ADC), this is not a death knell but a clarion call. In an exclusive...
12 october 2026
Tracr passes 5 million rough diamonds milestone as De Beers expands provenance push
De Beers Group's blockchain-enabled traceability platform Tracr reached a significant milestone in 2025, with more than 5 million rough diamonds individually scanned and registered, up from 2.8 million cumulative registrations reported in 2024. The...
28 september 2026
South African diamonds head to Hong Kong: SDT partners with BRINKS for JGW 2026
South Africa’s State Diamond Trader (SDT) has confirmed the country's participation in Jewellery & Gem World Hong Kong (JGW) 2026 through a partnership with BRINKS. SDT marketing and communication manager Tsholofelo Gopolang Tselapedi...
14 september 2026
David Benderly: PermaScribe seeks to put trust mark on diamond table, not just girdle
In this interview with Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa, PhotoScribe Technologies president and chief executive David Benderly explains how PermaScribe differs technically from conventional laser inscription, its potential to strengthen security, and...
31 august 2026
The great reset: Paul Zimnisky on supply catharsis, De Beers' bargain and the case for natural diamonds
The natural diamond industry is in the throes of its most profound reset in a generation. Supply is plunging to its lowest level since 1987 and De Beers—once valued at over $9 billion—is reportedly being sold for as little as $1 billion.
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10 august 2026
ALROSA secured additional two million carats of annual output
24 december 2012
On December 22, 2012, the stock of Nizhne-Lenskoye was put up for sale at auction. OAO Almazy Anabara, a subsidiary of ALROSA, turned to be the new owner of a 51-percent interest in Nizhne-Lenskoye (25,901,806 shares) having paid RUB 3.67 billion. The tender went without fuss – ending just after one bidding step.
November market report: The second month of stabilization
17 december 2012
We have again delayed this market overview for November waiting for export and import metrics from Belgium to avoid unsupported guesswork. And it was not in vain. The market stabilization that was evidenced in October is continuing and this is proved by the statistics, as well as by marketers at work.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday kicked off holiday shopping spree in the United States
10 december 2012
The end of November ushered in two major retail events sweeping across the United States – Black Friday (November 23) and Cyber Monday (November 26). They opened the longest holiday shopping season in the U.S., which this year will last 32 days. Retailers use these events to measure buying activity and forecast how much success this major shopping period of the year will pour on their business. Our observations suggest that so far the American buyer has not recovered from the crisis, despite the encouraging U.S. statistics.
Trade embargoes on Marange diamonds a damp squib?
03 december 2012
There is certainly no doubt that the Zimbabwe diamond conference, which was held recently in the resort town of Victoria Falls, ended with one consensus. This was: sanctions on Marange diamonds must go.
Kristall is boosting its sales of… rough
26 november 2012
For the last couple of years the inadmissibility of speculative operations and the need to support the development of diamond cutting appears to be the talk of the town among industry participants, because it is the state of the diamond market which diamond mining is hinging on. But what is said in theory does not always stand the test of practice.
India - a new high priority market for Forevermark diamonds
19 november 2012
Forevermark, the diamond brand of De Beers, sees great opportunities in the Indian market and is massively expanding its business in India - this is the conclusion reached by the Rough&Polished correspondent after analyzing the recent data, events, and opinions expressed by the company's management.
October market report: The phantom of stabilization
12 november 2012
After the unexpectedly large DTC sight market participants were overwhelmed by uncertainty. There was neither understanding of whether there has been a sharp decline in prices, nor any confidence as to what kind of response to be expected from other players. This is why we were marking time prior to issuing our market report for October waiting for export-import statistics from Belgium and India, so that based on these data we could draw some conclusions.
The high cost of Canadian diamonds - a sign of their high quality
06 november 2012
For many laymen diamonds are mainly associated with South Africa and rarely with Canada, even though the country is one of the three largest global producers of these precious stones.
Industrial diamonds and their role in diamond mining in Russia
29 october 2012
The global economic crisis is introducing its own corrective amendments into development strategies pursued by companies, industries, businesses, individual markets and even nations. In the next few years, Russia's economy will have to catch up with the opportunities once offered by better prices for exported rough and finally embark on the path of innovative development. It is likely that in the near future the strategy of innovative development followed by the Russian diamond industry will require deep reconstruction.
Ownership Issues and International Sanctions in Marange: The Case of Anjin
22 october 2012
Since the Kimberley Process deliberated that diamonds produced in the Marange fields in Zimbabwe meet the minimum standards required for trade, the focus of Zimbabwean and international media has moved away from violence in Chiadzwa and towards the identification of those companies operating in Marange and their ties with the Zimbabwean government. We shall try to analyze the reasons behind this shift with a particular focus on the case of Anjin.
