Nosiphiwo Mzamo: South Africa’s State Diamond Trader to buy diamonds from other African countries

South Africa’s State Diamond Trader (SDT) is set to buy diamonds from other African countries starting with Botswana. SDT’s chief executive Nosiphiwo Mzamo told Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa at the country’s inaugural diamond show, which...

10 february 2025

Edahn Golan: Halo effect from lab-grown diamonds driving high demand for large, 2-carat natural stones in the U.S.

Edahn Golan, owner of the eponymous Edahn Golan Diamond Research and Data, told Rough & Polished's Mathew Nyaungwa in an exclusive interview that their research found a halo effect from lab-grown diamonds. He said the trend among lab-grown diamond...

27 january 2025

Paul Zimnisky: We will see a modest recovery in natural diamond demand and prices in 2025

According to Paul Zimnisky, an independent diamond and jewellery analyst and consultant based in the New York metro area, the natural diamond industry will see a modest recovery in demand and prices this year. Zimnisky said a moderate recovery would...

13 january 2025

African Diamond Council makes traceability its top priority, wants KP to embrace Authentia.io

The African Diamond Council (ADC) has made traceability its foremost priority and has been contributing to a traceability solution called Authentia.io for the last three and a half years, which is now ready to globally satisfy the traceability...

16 december 2024

Gaetano Cavalieri: CIBJO leading the jewelry industry on critical issues

One of the gem and jewellery industry’s most well-known and respected personalities, Dr. Gaetano Cavalieri, has been the president of the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO), for the past 23 years. CIBJO is the oldest international organisation...

09 december 2024

Norilsk Nickel to allocate 3 billion rubles for Norilsk clean-up in 2024

02 april 2024

In 2024, Norilsk Nickel will dismantle about 50 old buildings and structures, clean up to 600,000 square meters of territories from garbage and reclaim up to 100 hectares of land as part of its Clean Norilsk program.

Stanislav Seleznev, Vice President of the company for Ecology and Industrial Safety, told TASS that the pace of implementation of the program to clean up Norilsk from accumulated waste will be maintained. The company plans to allocate more than 3 billion rubles for these purposes.

The Clean Norilsk program started in 2021 and will last for 10 years.

In three years, about 350 old buildings and structures were dismantled, 1 million tons of waste were removed, the territory on an area of more than 4 million square meters was cleared. The total cost of implementing the program, together with the purchase of equipment, amounted to 14.5 billion rubles. The total volume of planned investments is 40 billion rubles.

The Clean Norilsk project has become the best environmental practice in the Russian Arctic.

Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished