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Helga Pombal: Angola's Stardiam finds solution to the threat posed by lab-grown diamonds
Stardiam manager of production Helga Pombal told Rough&Polished's Mathew Nyaungwa on the sidelines of the Angola International Diamond Conference that lab-grown diamonds are creating a parallel market for more accessible stones, combined with lower...
11 november 2024
Ellah Muchemwa: ADPA to launch Africa's first diamond mining standard next year
The African Diamond Producers Association (ADPA), which is based in Luanda, Angola, and represents the interests of mainly African diamond producers and those with the potential to produce diamonds, will next year launch the Sustainable Development...
04 november 2024
Dmitry Fedorov: I want our jewelry to be displayed at a museum in the future
Dmitry Fedorov is the founder of the eponymous jewelry house. His main focus is the creation of Orthodox-inspired premium luxury jewelry of high artistic merit. He told Rough&Polished about his journey in the jewelry industry, about choosing the ‘Orthodox...
28 october 2024
Responsible business practices ‘no longer optional’, says WDC President Feriel Zerouki
The president of the World Diamond Council takes time out of her busy schedule to tell Rough&Polished readers about the critical work of the WDC. Zerouki, the first female present of the body, which includes all the important industry organizations among...
14 october 2024
James Campbell: Botswana Diamonds optimistic as it enters uncharted territory of using AI for mineral exploration
London-listed Botswana Diamonds has expressed optimism about the company’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scan the exploration database in Botswana to look for new mineralised deposits. Company managing director James Campbell told Rough...
07 october 2024
ALROSA CEO: Diamond market will suffer more than ALROSA from US sanctions
"We hope that we will not have to face sanctions, and we expect that common sense will prevail. The potential difficulties which this may bring to our company will be incomparable with the global consequences for the entire international rough and polished diamond market, including diamond bourses in Europe and other countries," the president of ALROSA told RIA Novosti.
He noted that ALROSA is not credited by Western banks and does not use American and European technologies in diamond mining. "A small amount of equipment produced in Europe, which is now being used by the company, can be replaced, if necessary, by domestic equivalents," Sergey Ivanov emphasized.
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives of the US Congress passed a law on tightening sanctions against Russia, Iran and the DPRK. The document is to be considered by the Senate and signed by the country's president. The law, in particular, requests to reduce the maximum period of money market financing for Russian banks under sanctions.