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Yoram Dvash: Industry unity, producer leadership and marketing investment key to natural diamond's future
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AWDC: First fully traceable artisanal diamonds from DRC sold on the international market in Antwerp
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Natural diamonds most desired luxury jewellery, Gen Z spending double baby boomers, reveals De Beers report
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Edahn Golan: India’s lab-grown diamond exports surpass natural diamonds by volume, yet value gap widens
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Dr M’zée Fula-Ngenge: Kimberley Process failing Africa
The Kimberley Process (KP) is failing Africa, and the world's definition of a “conflict diamond” is a moral and legal absurdity, according to the African Diamond Council (ADC) chairperson M’zée Fula-Ngenge. The following exclusive...
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Company based in the Arctic zone of Russia to create diamond production technopark in Arkhangelsk Province
As part of the implementation of the investment project, a high-tech production facility will be created in Arkhangelsk for the cultivation of single crystals of diamond and the manufacture of diamond products, which are widely in demand both by promising technological areas and the jewelry market, including such products as quantum sensors, ultra-pure diamonds, diamond tools, and polished diamonds. The opening of production is scheduled for 2024.
In addition, the company is considering the possibility of expanding the concept of the project and creating an industrial technopark on its own site. He will be able to unite producers of products made of synthetic or natural diamonds.
In order to create the infrastructure of the industrial diamond technopark and purchase equipment for collective use, the company expects to receive state support measures. Taking into account current prices for equipment, about 300 million rubles may be required for these purposes.
Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished
