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Vladimir Pilyushin: The jewelry market is not stand-alone and moves by the same laws as other markets
Vladimir Pilyushin is editor-in-chief of Russian Jeweler, a leading magazine about the jewelry industry in Russia. He told Rough&Polished about his view on the evolution of the jewelry industry in Russia and touched upon some of its problems.
16 september 2024
Sarine’s David Block: Diamond Industry at Standstill Until Chinese Demand Returns
David Block is CEO of Israel’s Sarine Technologies and has served in the position since 2012. In this exclusive interview for Rough and Polished, Block gives his opinion on the leading issues affecting today’s diamond trade.
11 september 2024
Dr M'zée Fula Ngenge: Demand for considerable-sized diamonds stronger than ever
The African Diamond Council (ADC) chairperson Dr M'zée Fula Ngenge told Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa in an exclusive interview that although overall global diamond prices have been somewhat soft, the demand for considerable-sized diamonds...
02 september 2024
Amplats sees prospects as a standalone company
Anglo has revealed its plans to demerge Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), which has operations in South Africa and Zimbabwe, to optimise shareholder value. Rough&Polished contacted Amplats to comment on this and other issues but was referred...
19 august 2024
WFDB President Yoram Dvash Remains Confident Despite Global Diamond Challenges
Yoram Dvash is President of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) having been elected in 2020. He found time in his busy schedule to speak to Rough&Polished about the state of the diamond industry around the world and some of the major...
12 august 2024
The US will not be able to take away Wrangel Island from Russia – Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador
24 november 2022
The ownership of Wrangel Island to Russia is indisputable, and the proposals for its "return" to the United States are extremist in nature, said Nikolai Korchunov, Ambassador-at-large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, chairman of the Committee of Senior Officials of the Arctic Council.
Canadian federal minister rejects Nunavut mine expansion
23 november 2022
Iron miner Baffinland had hope to build rail and port infrastructure to double the output of its Mary River mine, but faced local opposition.
The expedition discovered birds listed in the Red Book in the industrial area of Norilsk
22 november 2022
An expedition of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) discovered in the Norilsk industrial region seven species of birds listed in the Red Books of Russia and the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Norilsk Nickel presents two more apartments and certificates for household appliances to children of Taimyr
22 november 2022
At a meeting of the coordinating council of communities of the indigenous minorities of the North following the results of 2022, Nikolai Utkin, senior vice president of the company and head of its Norilsk Division, handed over the keys to two new apartments in Dudinka and certificates for household appliances to orphans from among the indigenous minorities of Taimyr.
Four Soviet nuclear icebreakers will be sawn into metal
22 november 2022
Four decommissioned Soviet nuclear icebreakers - "Siberia", "Arctic", "Soviet Union" and "Russia" - will be sawn into metal, Atomflot reported.
The bottom of the Arctic blooms too...
21 november 2022
During spring the Arctic Ocean blooms with surface waters spread with microscopic algae every year. Once bloom has used the nutrients on the surface, these plankton sink to the seafloor and die or remain in a stable state was what was generally thought, but a new study in ‘Global Change Biology’ has uncovered that in the summer, phytoplankton could bloom at the bottom of the Arctic.
Arctic fires could release catastrophic amounts of C02: study
18 november 2022
Global warming is responsible for bigger and bigger fires in Siberia, and in the decades ahead they could release huge amounts of carbon now trapped in the soil, says a new report. Researchers fear a threshold might soon be crossed, beyond which small changes in temperature could lead to an exponential increase in area burned in that region.
