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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
Prospects for individual gold mining in Russia
21 february 2011
Recently, a new bill authorizing extraction of placer gold by individual entrepreneurs was presented to mass media in Moscow. Senators with a wide experience of work in the gold and diamond industries tried to explain the necessity and urgency of this bill, whose fate remains unclear.
Diamond market in China in 2011: "golden decade", the beginning
14 february 2011
What will happen to the diamond market in China in the coming year? In short, it will face higher prices for diamonds, growth and diversification of demand as well as broad influx of buyers from Chinese provinces, which may spur major jewelry companies to chase small towns and even urban villages for customers.
OAO Nizhne-Lenskoye: 2010 opens up prospects
07 february 2011
As is known there are four companies in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) currently engaged in diamond mining and Yakutia has a 100-percent stake only in OAO Nizhne-Lenskoye. Economic analysis of the company’s activities has scientific and practical significance, because this experience can be applied to develop new diamond deposits in Yakutia in the future.
January market report
31 january 2011
Winter holidays are over, and diamond marketers are coming back from vacations starting to probe ways about purchasing and restocking. January is a traditional month for not so much buoyant activity as rather for in-depth analysis and search of trends governing the coming year.
Rough prices should be kept at a certain level - expert
24 january 2011
Rough diamond prices should be kept at a certain level for it is impossible to allow their uncontrolled growth, believes a representative of the diamond community in Antwerp, who agreed to comment on the situation in the market on condition of anonymity.
Will Chinese jewelry industry go hat in hand due to trade war between China and the United States?
17 january 2011
Tensions between China and the U.S. on yuan revaluation may trigger a real trade war followed by protectionist measures against Chinese goods. Cheap Chinese jewelry exports to the United States and European Union appear to be exposed.
Ethical consumer holds sway over diamond market
11 january 2011
New standards of consumption are gathering pace in today's world. Buyers get conscious about ways the goods they are going to purchase were produced. They wonder if this kind of production impaired animals, or whether child labor was used by manufacturers, or nature suffered from associated pollution. The so-called ethical consumption is developing momentum and quickly gaining huge market segments.
New Zim diamond deposit: Reality or mirage?
27 december 2010
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe together with his mines minister Obert Mpofu sent tongues wagging early this year, when they accused the diamond giant De Beers of looting gems from Marange. The bickering raged on until it subsided, however, the Zimbabwean government is at it again. This time it is not accusing De Beers of looting gems out of Marange, but a company, whose identity remains shrouded in secrecy.
Product to sell and merchant to buy
22 december 2010
Under certain conditions, the sale of a 15-percent block of shares in ALROSA may turn out to be extremely beneficial for Yakut shareholders. Indeed, in 2009 each ulus (district) in the “diamond province” received $83,000 in dividends as an ALROSA shareholder. A one-percent stake in the company is roughly worth $83.7 million. If this money were trivially put as a bank deposit under 3% per annum, the ulus would have netted over $2.5 million of annual income.
Legal market of synthetic diamonds
20 december 2010
In May 2008, three major international organizations – the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO), International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA) and World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) - issued a joint statement on the market status of synthetic diamonds, the Joint Statement on Lab-Grown Diamonds. This can be considered the beginning of a legal market for synthetic diamonds.
