June 19, 2012 Fatalities at Gem Diamonds’ Botswana mine delays production until 2014 Gem Diamonds said initial production at its Ghaghoo underground mine project in Botswana would be delayed until the first half of 2014 after an accident yesterday resulted in the death…
June 19, 2012 India’s polished diamond exports drop 44% in May The month of May delivered 44% drop (on yearly basis) in India’s polished diamond exports which is valued at $1.245 billion, while the volume of exports declined 50% to 2.574…
June 19, 2012 Falling Rupee stalls diamond industry Indian firms that have borrowed funds from overseas banks would now have bear a higher burden for discharging their debts. Moreover, the diamond industry is dependent on import of rough…
June 19, 2012 Aging Antwerp needs polishers, offering free training Antwerp's diamond polishers are aging and in order to recruit new talent, the the local diamond industry is offering free education under its 'Antwerp Diamond Masterplan – Project 2020’
June 18, 2012 No one buys Congo’s mining assets on the cheap: Government The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ministry of Mines went on the defensive on Monday about allegedly granting mining licenses to companies with close connections to the government. It qualified those…
June 17, 2012 End of the supercycle is also spelling the end of radical resource nationalism "Natural resources companies with a pipeline of, say, five projects in five different countries are now likely to build just two or three of those. Thus, executives have the power…
June 16, 2012 Ekati is just not cutting it. Harry Winston sitting pretty as De Beers also drops bid De Beers considered a bid for BHP Billiton's 80% stake in Canadian diamond mine Ekati, but has now become the latest interested party not to submit an offer, perhaps leaving…
June 13, 2012 Successful tailings retreatment for Lace diamond mine The Lace diamond mine is located 25km northwest of the town of Kroonstad within the Free State Province of South Africa. The mine operated from 1896 to 1931.
June 13, 2012 Company introduces low cost lab-made diamond identifier As diamond traders continue to express concerns over undisclosed lab-made diamonds, a Hong Kong firm is offering a low cost way to identify them. Their solution is a $200 laser…
June 12, 2012 Russia could sell all of Alrosa Plans to sell a stake in 90%-owned Alrosa, the largest diamond supplier in the world, would make up a huge chunk of the $9.3 billion Russia hopes to generate from asset…
Copper price nears $13,000 on tariffs woes, supply strain Mine outages, tariff risks and tight supply push copper toward a milestone despite weakening Chinese demand. December 29, 2025 | 05:51 am
