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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
Mikhail Ilyinykh: sooner or later you have to deal with recovery and disposal of nuclear and radiation hazardous facilities in the Arctic seas
14 april 2023
The chairman of the profile committee in the regional Duma took part in a seminar on risk assessment emanating from flooded nuclear and radiation hazardous facilities. The seminar was organized by the state corporation Rosatom.
The Polar State University to launch a health-saving project on a grant from Norilsk Nickel
14 april 2023
The Research Center "Ecology of Health" of the Polar State University (ZSU) won a grant from the competition of social projects "World of New Opportunities" of Norilsk Nickel and will launch a project related to health care.
“A ‘frozen’ geopolitical issue”: Svalbard and the geopolitics of Arctic mining
13 april 2023
Russia has had a presence on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard since 1920, but as military tensions rise, the cluster of islands is growing in significance for the mining sector. Florence Jones investigates.
Record low levels of sea ice recorded in Antarctica
12 april 2023
The minimum ice cover in the Southern Ocean has been observed for the second year in a row. The indicators of February 2023 were the lowest in the last 44 years, the press service of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AANI) reported.
Export of drinking water can bring more revenue to the Russian budget than oil - experts
11 april 2023
The export of drinking water in the future 25 years may bring the Russian budget a higher income than oil exports, according to the report prepared by Roscongress experts "Tip of the iceberg: real prospects for the Arctic economy."
Russian oceanologists found out what takes heat from the Arctic seas
10 april 2023
Scientists of St. Petersburg State University found out that oceanic vortices take more than 60% of warm water, which is carried by currents into the Arctic seas - Norwegian and Greenland.
Hochschild Mining walks away from Canadian gold project
07 april 2023
Hochschild Mining (LON: HOC) has informed Skeena Resources (NYSE: SKE) (TSX: SKE) that it is ending its option to earn in a 60% interest in the Canadian miner’s Snip gold project, located in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia.
