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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.
Lab-grown...
10 august 2026
Norilsk Nickel among leaders of "Polar Index. Companies" rating for 2023
08 august 2023
The Arctic Development Project Office and the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University have released the sixth annual rating of sustainable development of Russian Arctic companies "Polar Index. Companies".
The thickness of the ice cover in the polar region of the Arctic halved in 30 years - scientists
07 august 2023
During the traditional summer voyage of the nuclear icebreaker "50 Years of Victory" to the North Pole specialists of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AANII) conducted observations of the distribution of ice cover along the navigation route.
Gas-saturated water found in the Arctic
04 august 2023
When drilling ice mounds, the so-called blisters, on the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic, scientists found fountains of carbonating brine. The discovery may expand fundamental knowledge about the behavior of water in the permafrost zone, scientificrussia.ru reports.
The US lags behind Russia in icebreaker production
03 august 2023
The United States lags behind Russia in the production of polar icebreakers that can overcome solid ice several feet thick, iz.ru reports.
The port of Murmansk may cease to be ice-free due to the "collapse" of the Gulf Stream
02 august 2023
The change in the course of vital ocean currents which scientists call the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is fraught with a number of catastrophic phenomena.
Chinese expedition to study sources of pollution in the Arctic
01 august 2023
An expedition of scientists from China arrived at the Hwang Station, which is located on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
Russian Foreign Ministry considers Norway's shelf mineral mining off Spitsbergen to be illegal
31 july 2023
Moscow regards Norway's attempts to extract mineral resources on the continental shelf in the area of the Svalbard archipelago as a violation of obligations under the 1920 treaty, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
