May 22, 2012 Accredited Gem Appraisers extends registration for Future of Diamonds panel to May 23 Is the world of diamonds as you've known it about to change forever? It might change in ways that we have never envisioned, and this conference is going to be…
May 22, 2012 Diamond-seller Choksi takes on world with Bollywood Mehul Choksi sees his jewelry business one day joining LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (MC) and Cartier among the biggest names in luxury goods. Choksi is chairman and managing…
May 22, 2012 Diamond miner Rockwell completes strategic projects at Saxendrift Canadian Rockwell Diamonds (TSX: RDI) implemented a new in-field screen and a bulk x-ray and single particle sorter plant at its Saxendrift diamond mine. These two strategic projects were the…
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…
Silver price whipsaws again as thin liquidity fuels wild swings Spot silver was up more than 7% to about $76 an ounce by mid-morning in New York on Friday, having earlier tumbled toward $64. February 06, 2026 | 01:23 pm
