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Mmetla Masire: Okavango to resume diamond sales in January
Botswana’s state-owned Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) is set to resume diamond sales in January 2025, whether the market remains depressed or not. ODC managing director Mmetla Masire told Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa on the side-lines of...
18 november 2024
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
Christie’s and amfAR partner to raise funds for COVID-19 research
11 may 2020
Christie’s and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research have partnered to to raise critical funds for COVID-19 research through a dedicated global auction at Christie’s this June.
Phillips to hold its firs cross-category auction
11 may 2020
Phillips’s Hong Kong intends to hold its first cross-category online auction of collectibles spanning art, watches and jewellery to attract younger collectors.
Pangolin makes progress at Kweneng
08 may 2020
Pangolin Diamonds has processed 25 kilogrammes of drill chips through its in-house 1TPH dense medium separation (DMS) plant, which produced chromite, clinopyroxenes, and what is interpreted as fragments of a chromite-garnet peridotite.
Jewellery & Gem ASIA Hong Kong rescheduled to Nov 2020
08 may 2020
The Jewellery & Gem ASIA Hong Kong (JGA), originally scheduled for June this year, will now take place from November 26 to 29, 2020 at the AsiaWorld-Expo owing to COVID-19 concerns.
Debswana hunts for substantive MD
08 may 2020
Debswana, a joint venture between De Beers and the Botswana government, is currently conducting interviews for a substantive managing director to replace Albert Milton, who died after a short illness last year.
Dubai’s Damas Jewellery appoints Luc Perramond as Chairman and CEO
08 may 2020
Dubai-based Damas Jewellery has announced on May 6 that the company has appointed Luc Perramond as Chairman and CEO, effective from April 20.
Baselworld cancelled for 2021
08 may 2020
The Baselworld watch and jewelry exhibition will not take place in 2021, according to MCH Group, the owner and organiser of the show.
De Beers allows 100% deferrals, buybacks of up to 30%
07 may 2020
De Beers has allowed sightholders to defer 100% of their sight four allocations to later in the year.
Surat sitting on more than $ 2 bln polished diamond inventory
07 may 2020
Initial polished diamonds exports of around $90 mln have resumed from Surat, which is minuscule compared to the polished diamond inventory of more than $2 bln heavily weighing on the cutting centre.
Belgian diamond hub resumes its work
07 may 2020
Antwerp diamond companies are returning to the hub following the decision of Belgian authorities to weaken the measures of nationwide two-month COVID-19 lockdown, which practically stopped the business in the world's largest diamond trading center.
