Moussa Magassouba is a western educated mining engineer and fluent English speaker, with more than 20 years of experience in the industry and no political background.

Duncan Wanblad, 54, will be the first South African to run the company since Tony Trahar stepped down in 2007.

Mining ended at Argyle in 2020 after 37 years of production, during which the mine was the source of 90% of the world’s prized pink stones.

A structural production decline paired with growing end-user demand are pushing prices past levels reached in 2019.