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Diamond market crash is Africa’s opportunity, not its crisis – M'zée Fula Ngenge
Global natural diamond supply is forecast to fall below 95 million carats this year, the lowest since 1987. For Dr. M'zée Fula Ngenge, chairperson of the African Diamond Council (ADC), this is not a death knell but a clarion call. In an exclusive...
12 october 2026
Tracr passes 5 million rough diamonds milestone as De Beers expands provenance push
De Beers Group's blockchain-enabled traceability platform Tracr reached a significant milestone in 2025, with more than 5 million rough diamonds individually scanned and registered, up from 2.8 million cumulative registrations reported in 2024. The...
28 september 2026
South African diamonds head to Hong Kong: SDT partners with BRINKS for JGW 2026
South Africa’s State Diamond Trader (SDT) has confirmed the country's participation in Jewellery & Gem World Hong Kong (JGW) 2026 through a partnership with BRINKS. SDT marketing and communication manager Tsholofelo Gopolang Tselapedi...
14 september 2026
David Benderly: PermaScribe seeks to put trust mark on diamond table, not just girdle
In this interview with Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa, PhotoScribe Technologies president and chief executive David Benderly explains how PermaScribe differs technically from conventional laser inscription, its potential to strengthen security, and...
31 august 2026
The great reset: Paul Zimnisky on supply catharsis, De Beers' bargain and the case for natural diamonds
The natural diamond industry is in the throes of its most profound reset in a generation. Supply is plunging to its lowest level since 1987 and De Beers—once valued at over $9 billion—is reportedly being sold for as little as $1 billion.
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10 august 2026
Rosprirodnadzor: the volume of waste in the Russian Federation reached 53 billion tons in 2021
22 july 2022
The accumulated volume of waste by the end of 2021 reached 53 billion tons, said Svetlana Radionova, head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Environmental Management (Rosprirodnadzor).
Russian industry against turnover fines for exceeding emission quotas
22 july 2022
According to kommersant.ru , large industrial enterprises strongly opposed the initiative of the Ministry of Natural Resources to introduce turnover fines for exceeding quotas of emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere.
Anglo American partners with Nippon Steel to advance steelmaking decarbonization
14 july 2022
Anglo American and Nippon Steel Corporation (“Nippon Steel”) have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to accelerate the transition to lower carbon steelmaking, building on the premium physical qualities of Anglo American’s iron ore to help drive emissions reduction.
11 tonnes of waste collected at an altitude of 1,100 metres: Volunteers of the Clean Arctic project told about the results of their expedition to Mount Lyokvozh in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District
13 july 2022
The volunteers who took part in the Clean Arctic project returned to Salekhard after a four-day expedition to Mount Lyokvozh in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District (YaNAD). All these days, the project volunteers were busy collecting garbage from the area of the abandoned communication station located at an altitude of more than 1,100 metres above sea level.
Nornickel presents flagship ESG projects at “2030 Challenges” Conference
12 july 2022
Norilsk Nickel took part in the conference “Challenges 2030. Sustainable Development of Regions” organized by Russia’s Managers Association.
Volunteers to help researchers find the best way to dispose plastic waste from the coast of the Arctic
11 july 2022
From July 10 to 15, the members of the Unified Volunteer Center of the Murmansk Region and the participants in the Clean Arctic project will help the researchers of the General Ecology and Hydrobiology Department of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov to conduct research on the waste accumulated on the southern coast of the Barents Sea.
Nikolay Doronin became a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation
08 july 2022
Nikolay Doronin, Chairman of the PODA’s (Project Office for the Development of the Arctic) Board, joined the Public Council under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation and became Deputy Chairman of the Commission for Public Control over the Implementation of the “Ecology” national project.
