May 22, 2012 The right cut: Dreams made of diamonds The Montreal Gazette interviews Gevorg Mkhitaryan, owner of a small diamond polishing operation, who was part of a group of about 60 Armenian diamond cutters and polishers brought to the…
May 22, 2012 DiamondCorp agrees on a $33.6 million loan deal with South Africa’s IDC African DiamondCorp (LON:DCP) said its 74% owned Lace Diamond Mines, the company's primary asset in South Africa, has entered into a loan funding term sheet with the Industrial Development Corporation…
May 22, 2012 Sierra Leone ‘blood diamonds’ not forever The west African state of Sierra Leone has taken another symbolic step away from its wartime image as the home of the "blood diamond". An Israeli-owned company has started operating…
May 22, 2012 Rio Tinto donates $12 million biggest pink diamond to a museum London-based diversified miner Rio Tinto (LON & NYSE:RIO) is donating the biggest pink rough diamond ever discovered, found earlier this year at its Argyle mine, to an Australian museum in…
May 21, 2012 Is post-Taylor diamond mining in Sierra Leone clean? Charles Taylor, was convicted in April of war crimes for arming Sierra Leone's rebels in return for blood diamonds. Taylor is now awaiting sentencing and the BBC tries to find out…
May 20, 2012 Alrosa not planning major investment in Timir iron ore project Interfax cited Mr Igor Kulichik Russian diamond miner vice president and financial director as saying that Alrosa is not planning major investments in the near term in the Timir iron…
May 19, 2012 Junior resource investment in a financial meltdown – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Rick Rule's presentation at the New York Hard Assets Conference earlier this week sees some light for the informed junior resource investor despite current patterns which have mostly been Bad…
May 18, 2012 Graff Diamonds IPO should catapult the diamond king up the billionaires list Laurence Graff, the undisputed king of uber-expensive diamonds, will earn a tidy $290 million windfall when he restructures his Mayfair-based company and will vastly boost his paper wealth when Graff…
May 17, 2012 Man passes 1.7 carat diamond A 52-year-old man detained in a dry cell at a police station in Windsor, Ont., while they wait for him to give up a $20,000 diamond, has finally passed the…
May 17, 2012 WDC Honors Oppenheimer The World Diamond Council has paid a special tribute to De Beers Chairman Nicky Oppenheimer at a gala dinner in Vicenza, Italy.
Iron ore price nears best close since November on year-end metal rally The steelmaking ingredient advanced for a third straight session in Singapore, climbing nearly 1.8% to as much as $106.55 a ton in intraday trading. December 29, 2025 | 07:51 am
