Nosiphiwo Mzamo: South Africa’s State Diamond Trader to buy diamonds from other African countries

South Africa’s State Diamond Trader (SDT) is set to buy diamonds from other African countries starting with Botswana. SDT’s chief executive Nosiphiwo Mzamo told Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa at the country’s inaugural diamond show, which...

10 february 2025

Edahn Golan: Halo effect from lab-grown diamonds driving high demand for large, 2-carat natural stones in the U.S.

Edahn Golan, owner of the eponymous Edahn Golan Diamond Research and Data, told Rough & Polished's Mathew Nyaungwa in an exclusive interview that their research found a halo effect from lab-grown diamonds. He said the trend among lab-grown diamond...

27 january 2025

Paul Zimnisky: We will see a modest recovery in natural diamond demand and prices in 2025

According to Paul Zimnisky, an independent diamond and jewellery analyst and consultant based in the New York metro area, the natural diamond industry will see a modest recovery in demand and prices this year. Zimnisky said a moderate recovery would...

13 january 2025

African Diamond Council makes traceability its top priority, wants KP to embrace Authentia.io

The African Diamond Council (ADC) has made traceability its foremost priority and has been contributing to a traceability solution called Authentia.io for the last three and a half years, which is now ready to globally satisfy the traceability...

16 december 2024

Gaetano Cavalieri: CIBJO leading the jewelry industry on critical issues

One of the gem and jewellery industry’s most well-known and respected personalities, Dr. Gaetano Cavalieri, has been the president of the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO), for the past 23 years. CIBJO is the oldest international organisation...

09 december 2024

Russian senator proposes to compose academic history of the Arctic

07 march 2024

Anatoly Shirokov, a senator from the Magadan Region and a deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Government and Northern Affairs, proposed to compose an academic history of the Arctic.

According to TASS, the senator announced the proposal at the IX international scientific and practical conference "The Far East and the Arctic: Sustainable development".

"In Russia, there is an academic history of Siberia, there is an academic history of the Far East. We do not have an academic history of the Arctic. The Arctic country does not have its own history of the Arctic written by its scientists. I think this is a colossal flaw," Shirokov said.

At the same time, he noted that scientific centers are currently operating in Arkhangelsk, Yakutsk and Magadan.

The proposal to compose an academic history of the Arctic is planned to be included in the resolution of the conference.

Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished