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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
Artur Salyakayev: For me, happiness is freedom to make my ideas happen and create valuable products
Artur Salyakayev is an art entrepreneur, founder of the International Jewelry Academy (IJA) and the INCRUA jewelry company. He has initiated and developed successful projects in jewelry industry and services sector. He is also a leading expert...
30 september 2024
Paul Zimnisky: China key for sustained recovery in demand for natural diamonds, prices
The curtailing of upstream and midstream natural diamond production in the past months is starting to have an effect on prices, according to the New-York-based independent diamond and jewellery analyst and consultant, Paul Zimnisky. He told Rough & Polished’s...
23 september 2024
Vladimir Pilyushin: The jewelry market is not stand-alone and moves by the same laws as other markets
Vladimir Pilyushin is editor-in-chief of Russian Jeweler, a leading magazine about the jewelry industry in Russia. He told Rough&Polished about his view on the evolution of the jewelry industry in Russia and touched upon some of its problems.
16 september 2024
GIA returns to printed diamond dossier reports
10 april 2023
GIA will return to producing printed GIA Diamond Dossier reports beginning April 9. All diamonds in GIA laboratories on April 9 or submitted on or after that date for the Diamond Dossier service will be returned with a printed GIA Diamond Dossier report.
Demand in India for Platinum to follow the past decade's pace
10 april 2023
Besides the acute Covid pandemic period in 2020, platinum jewellery has performed well, demand-wise in the Indian market, thanks to Gen Z 's interest in the metal.
Community protests have no effect on Implats' JV Makgomo plant – report
10 april 2023
Chrome has been piling up at the Makgomo chrome plant in Burgersfort, Limpopo, as residents and business forums from surrounding communities have camped out at the operation's entrance for over a month in an attempt to prevent trucks from loading chrome.
De Beers' Canadian mines reach the end of their active closure
07 april 2023
De Beers' Victor and Snap Lake mines in Canada are nearing the end of their active closure processes, which began in 2019 and 2022, respectively. According to the company, most of the infrastructure at the Victor mine in Northern Ontario's James Bay lowlands has already been removed, and more than two-thirds of the site has been rehabilitated and revegetated.
The largest ever 'hydrogen fuel cell plane' takes flight
07 april 2023
In the automotive world, batteries are quickly becoming the energy source of the future. For heavier-duty tasks, though, they simply don’t cut the mustard. Their energy density, being a small fraction of that of liquid fuels, just can’t get the job done. In areas like these, hydrogen holds some promise as a cleaner fuel of the future, says a report from the World Platinum Investment Council.
De Beers, GIA join forces to boost consumer trust in natural diamonds
07 april 2023
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) will join De Beers' Tracr, the world's first distributed diamond blockchain platform. The diamond group said GIA's participation in Tracr will enable the world's leading diamond grading laboratory to include an immutable record of the provenance of polished diamonds in its diamond grading reports for the first time, as the industry moves towards a unified approach to provenance assurance.
Near-term platinum demand relatively resilient despite a soft economic outlook
07 april 2023
While the global economic outlook has continued to be depressed, the platinum demand outlook is improving in 2024, although still remaining subdued, as published in WPIC's Platinum Quarterly. The platinum outlook for 2023, as published in the last Platinum Quarterly, incorporates recessionary risks, while the report expects deteriorating real consumer purchasing power as determined by taking consensus GDP less consensus CPI estimates.
Gold smuggling in India rose 33% due to import duty hike
07 april 2023
Mumbai is a transit hub for gold smugglers as there is a big market for precious metals. Several syndicates, including jewellers who finance the racketeers are involved, say customs officials.
SOKOLOV awarded for adapting retail staff
06 april 2023
SOKOLOV jewelry brand received the award "Proven Solutions for HR" for the best case for adapting retail personnel through the iSpring platform and the seller's own mobile application within the framework of the All-Russian forum HRM Expo 2023.
Northam abandons plans to acquire RBPlat
06 april 2023
Northam Platinum has withdrawn its offer to acquire Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat), citing low platinum group metals (PGM) prices, as it concludes a year-long takeover battle with Impala Platinum.
