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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...
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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
Scientists continue to gather content for the Arctic Multilingual Portal
03 november 2023
For the second year, the staff of the UNESCO Department of the North-Eastern Federal University of Yakutia go on expeditions to places of indigenous peoples' of the Far North habitation, and collect materials for the Arctic multilingual portal at arctic-megapedia.com.
Gazprom Nedra completed the drilling season in the Arctic
02 november 2023
Gazprom Nedra has completed the construction of a prospecting and evaluation gas well in the Kara Sea using a self-lifting drilling rig "Arctic". As a result of testing, an industrial gas inflow corresponding to the planned indicators was obtained from productive formations.
Russian engineers create a robot to monitor inner surfaces of pipes in the Arctic
01 november 2023
The Scientific and Educational Center "Russian Arctic" in Arkhangelsk has developed a robot for measuring the internal diameters of pipes and monitoring the condition of their surfaces, TASS quoted Marat Yeseev, a scientific director of the center and a Deputy First Vice-rector for Promising Projects of the Northern Arctic Federal University, as saying.
A permafrost map with a 50-year forecast to be created by Yamal scientists
31 october 2023
The Scientific Center for the Study of the Arctic will create a dynamically changeable map of the state of permafrost on the territory of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, the press service of the governor of the region reports.
Arctic LNG-2 project's third production line construction is underway
30 october 2023
Construction of the third production line of the Arctic LNG-2 project has begun in the Murmansk Region, according to the governor of the region Andrey Chibis.
Researchers made digital recordings of the speech of Arctic residents
27 october 2023
Researchers recorded live speech of representatives of indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Far North on digital media.
Rosatom and DP World set up JV to transport containers along the Northern Sea Route
26 october 2023
Rosatom State Corporation and DP World, one of the largest port operators in the world owned by the UAE government, have created a joint venture to develop transit container traffic along the Northern Sea Route, pro-arctic.ru reports.
