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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
Ruslan Gubaidullin: The Arctic Technopark to be set up in Norilsk soon
18 july 2022
The Chairman of the Board of the ANO (Autonomous Nonprofit Organization) “Clean Arctic” made a presentation at the All-Russian Youth Educational Forum “Territory of Meanings”. The forum takes place in Solnechnogorsk on the basis of the Management Workshop “Senezh” of the ANO “Russia - the Land of Opportunities”. The first shift is devoted to modelling the system of municipal administration.
New large shipbuilding centres to be set up in Russia
15 july 2022
The Ministry of Industry and Trade is examining the possibility of creating another Russian centre for large-tonnage shipbuilding to partially meet the growing demand for new heavy-tonnage vessels. This was announced on June 29, 2022 by Boris Kabakov, Director of the Department of Shipbuilding Industry and Marine Engineering of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, on the sidelines of the Shipbuilding in the Arctic forum held in Arkhangelsk.
Forest trees to be planted by the Miner’s Day in Vorkuta
14 july 2022
The action will be held with the support of the Project Office for the Development of the Arctic (PODA). The forest trees will be planted in the historical part of the urban district of Vorkuta, on the site of the first village, from which the history of this polar city began.
The Clean Arctic project supported the From a Spring to the Ocean campaign to clean some springs in the Murmansk Region
13 july 2022
Dozens of corporate volunteers supported the From a Spring to the Ocean campaign offered by the Unified Volunteer Centre, the Murmansk Region, which is held in the region together with the Clean Arctic federal project. On June 30, the volunteers cleaned three well-springs and took water samples together with the scientists.
At the invitation of Norilsk Nickel, a large group of scientists from the SB RAS studied biodiversity near the small towns of Nikel and Zapolyarny
12 july 2022
Ornithologists were the first to undertake research in the biodiversity followed by hydrologists, soil scientists, mammologists, botanists, entomologists who came to the Kola Peninsula, according to mass media. “It’s good when Norilsk Nickel orders such a large-scale study in the area of its presence.
Cultural space made of containers is now in Murmansk
11 july 2022
In July 2022, Murmansk hosts the second Arctic Urban Art Festival “Growth” aimed at the aesthetic development of the city’s residential districts, so called ‘bedroom communities’. As part of the festival, the polar city will be decorated with several new murals, and small architectural forms will be made on its streets.
TotalEnergies to pull out of Kharyaga oil project
08 july 2022
The French oil and gas corporation TotalEnergies announced its intention to transfer its 20 percent stake in the Kharyaga (Kharyaginskoye) oil field development project to the Zarubezhneft oil firm. The transfer will take place in accordance with the principles and rules adopted by TotalEnergies on March 22, 2022 due to the sanction pressure on Russia. The company made this announcement in its press release on July 6.
