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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 sells large rough diamonds for $8.7 mln in Dubai
26 october 2020
ALROSA held an auction for special size rough diamonds (over 10.8 carats) in Dubai. This is the first auction organized by the company in the UAE since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
De Beers Q3 rough output eases to 7.2Mcts on low demand
23 october 2020
De Beers' rough diamond production decreased by 4% to 7.2 million carats in the third quarter of 2019 compared to 7,4 million carats, a year earlier, according to Anglo American.
ALROSA intends to have a joint diamond manufacturing division
23 october 2020
ALROSA has started to create a joint diamond manufacturing division bringing under one control all of its polishing factories. This follows from the Company’s statement on Thursday.
Chow Tai Fook’s sales up 2.6% y-o-y in Q2
23 october 2020
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited (CTF) sales registered a positive growth of 2.6% for the second quarter that ended 30 September 2020, according to the company. This is attributed to the revival of Mainland China outshone as against Hong Kong and Macau which faced the impact of Covid-19 and the prevalent unrest.
ALROSA put up for online auction more than 30 exclusive diamonds with investment potential
23 october 2020
ALROSA announced the next online auction of exclusive diamonds for private clients of the ALROSA Diamond Exclusive program and professional market participants. The debut auction of this kind held in June 2020 showed the demand for this format among private buyers, who use it to get access to the starting prices of the wholesale market.
Call for Africa to make diamond provenance disclosures with millennials
23 october 2020
African diamond producing countries have been called upon to share information about the process of mining natural stones as millennials are concerned about provenance disclosures.
Petra introduces the Letlapa Tala Collection
22 october 2020
Petra Diamonds Limited has announced a special tender process for the Letlapa Tala Collection, being five blue diamonds of significant colour, clarity, size and heritage, all sourced from the famed Cullinan Mine in South Africa via a press release.
Diamcor closes initial tranche of C$3.5 mln convertible loan
22 october 2020
Diamcor Mining, which owns the Krone-Endora at Venetia project, in South Africa, has closed the initial tranche of a C$3.5 million convertible loan financing announced late last month.
New world record in diamond growing
22 october 2020
New Diamond Technology based in St. Petersburg has set another world record in growing exclusively large single-crystal diamonds, Type Ib (containing nitrogen) producing a diamond weighing 129.47 carats and sized 29.5x29,5x21 mm in early October 2020 using the HPHT method. Currently, this diamond is being prepared for certification by the GIA.
Many of the major auctioneers reserve the best items for spring
22 october 2020
Nearly all of the major players - from Christie’s to Sotheby’s to Doyle - are pushing some of their best sales to the spring when they believe buyers will be even more enthusiastic.
