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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
Lucapa raises $2.8m to advance Lulo kimberlite exploration
04 march 2020
Lucapa Diamond has received applications for a $2.8 million share placement to advance the Lulo kimberlite exploration programme, in Angola as well as for general working capital and corporate purposes.
HK's retail sales of jewellery & watches dip to a huge 41% in January 2020
04 march 2020
Total retail sales across all products in Hong Kong fell drastically to 21.4% in January 2020, for the 12th consecutive month.
Surat’s diamond workers to go on ‘strike’ over professional tax on March 16
04 march 2020
The Surat Ratnakalakar Sangh (SRS) has given a call for strike in the diamond cutting and polishing sector on March 16 to demand the abolition of professional tax charged by the Gujarat state government from diamond workers.
Angola diamond trading reforms bearing fruits – SODIAM
03 march 2020
The Angolan government’s introduction of a new diamond trading policy in 2018 is bearing positive results, according to the state diamond trader, SODIAM.
Yakut diamonds will receive the names of the heroes of World War II from Yakutia
03 march 2020
The authorities of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) together with ALROSA launched the project “100 diamonds named for the 100th anniversary of the statehood of Yakutia”.
SBI backs uniformity in lending to Indian gems and jewellery sector
03 march 2020
India’s largest Public Sector lender State Bank of India (SBI) is pushing to bring about uniformity in its lending practices to the gems and jewellery sector, where lending growth has been largely muted following incidence of frauds.
De Beers to assist struggling customers – report
03 march 2020
De Beers is considering giving a helping hand to its struggling buyers following weak diamond sales that hit the industry last year.
WDC backs West African artisanal miners’ bid to embrace KP
03 march 2020
The World Diamond Council (WDC) has backed the Mano River Union (MRU) which is pushing for an improved implementation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP) in West Africa.
Lucara beats revenue guidance for FY 2019
02 march 2020
Lucara Diamond accrued revenues of $192.5 million from diamonds sold at its Karowe mine, in Botswana during fiscal year 2019 compared with $176.2 million, a year earlier.
Diamcor acquires new equipment to support planned increases in processing volumes
02 march 2020
Diamcor Mining has completed the processing of tailings material at its Krone-Endora at Venetia project, in South Africa.
