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De Beers shines light on budding jewellery designers
Diamond giant De Beers will this year conduct its bi-annual Shining Light Awards jewellery design competition. De Beers beneficiation manager Kagiso Fredericks told Rough & Polished's Mathew Nyaungwa in an exclusive interview they set aside 4.5 carats...
22 july 2024
DiaMondaine Diamantaires Club mulls diamond safari tours in southern Africa
DiaMondaine Diamantaires Club (DDC) is set to organise diamond safari tours in southern Africa, home to major diamond-producing countries. DDC founder Agnes Abdulahu told Rough&Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa that the launch of the first diamond safari...
15 july 2024
Vladislav Zhdanov: Questions of efficiency and investment potential of diamond mining versus diamond growing pique keen interest
Vladislav Zhdanov is Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). He told Rough&Polished about new researches into the effectiveness of diamond production methods.
02 july 2024
Why it's expensive to cut and polish diamonds in Africa? ADMA president António Oliveira has the answer
The African Diamond Manufacturers Association (ADMA) president António Oliveira told Rough&Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa in an exclusive interview that the lack of a robust infrastructure in Africa fails to accelerate and encourage manufacturing...
24 june 2024
Edahn Golan: IPO feasible but not Anglo’s preferred way to sell De Beers
Edahn Golan, owner of the eponymous Edahn Golan Diamond Research and Data, told Rough&Polished's Mathew Nyaungwa in an exclusive interview that while an IPO of De Beers is “feasible," he does not think this is a route Anglo American...
17 june 2024
Russia's first hydrogen production facility commissioned on Sakhalin
Yesterday
The first solar-powered hydrogen plant in Russia has been opened on Sakhalin, according to the head of the Sakhalin region Valery Limarenko who spoke at the commissioning ceremony.
Volunteers to clear waste from territory of Yamal Nature Park
25 july 2024
Russian volunteers will clean up the territory of the Ingilor Nature Park in Yamal. Starting July 29, volunteers will have a lot of work to clean up the specially protected area from scrap metal, solid household waste and dilapidated buildings.
Temperatures in Russian Arctic exceeded norm by 1.12 °C last year
24 july 2024
In winter, the temperature anomaly in the Russian Arctic was 1.62 °C, in summer - 0.93 °C. Spring temperature was close to normal, and the highest average temperature anomaly was recorded in autumn at 1.96 °C.
UAVs are valuable for continuous environmental monitoring in the Arctic - RAS
23 july 2024
According to vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Stepan Kalmykov, quoted by TASS, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) make it possible to continuously monitor changes in the state of the environment in the Arctic.
New solution by St. Petersburg university to provide communications in the Arctic
22 july 2024
The third Arctic expedition organized by the St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications named after Professor M.A. Bonch-Bruevich will test a new transceiver in Yakutia, TASS reports.
Young scientists from Moscow State University calculate how much carbon is contained in Yamal soil
19 july 2024
Students of the Geography Faculty of the Moscow State University are studying the state of the soil and rivers in Yamal as part of the practice at the Scientific Center for Arctic Studies and the Russian Center for Arctic Development, the Yamal Unites channel on Telegram reported.
First Norilsk-Pyasino water system research for 2024 begins near Norilsk
18 july 2024
For the first time in 2024, Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company, a Nornickel subsidiary, and the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) embarked on fishery research in the Norilsk-Pyasino water system.
