January 17, 2022 De Beers makes diamond buyers cough up cash with fresh price rise The world's largest diamond miner by value is said to have hiked prices by about 8% for big stones and 20% for small ones at the latest sale.
January 16, 2022 Flawed diamonds may be the key to quantum internet Japanese researchers discovered that diamonds’ atomic defects where carbon is replaced by nitrogen or another element may offer a close-to-perfect interface for quantum computing.
January 12, 2022 Botswana Diamonds shares shoot up on Thorny River potential The company has significantly raised the estimated kimberlite volume at the South African asset to 2 million tonnes of kimberlitic material.
December 28, 2021 Mountain Province Diamond says covid outbreak at Gacho Kué won’t affect production Four cases of covid-19 have been detected at Gahcho Kué operations in the Northwest Territories.
December 24, 2021 The Top 10 diamond stories of 2021 The diamond sector may be a volatile industry, as its dramatic ups and downs during the pandemic have demonstrated.
December 23, 2021 New industrial WiFi system to bring 6G technologies to remote, underground mines University of Sydney researchers are developing an industrial long-range WiFi system that transmits signals to hard-to-reach places while maintaining high data rates.
December 22, 2021 ALROSA names diamond after folklore heroine to honor indigenous culture Kyndykan was a young girl who was miraculously found alive 200 years ago by Yakut hunters near the Verkhoyansk Mountains in an ancestral settlement completely wiped out by smallpox.
December 17, 2021 De Beers extends Botswana sales deal as it negotiates new contract The 2011 rough diamond sales deal in which the venture, Debswana, sells all of its output to De Beers was set to expire in 2020.
December 17, 2021 Lucapa’s Merlin could be next top diamond mine in Australia Preliminary scoping study shows the asset has the potential to yield 2.1 million carats over its 14-year mine life.
December 16, 2021 Rio Tinto appoints first female president for Diavik diamond mine Angela Bigg, previously general manager, operations, will be the first female to lead the mine and its 1,100 employees.
Copper poised for best year since 2009 after December surge All six base metals on the LME are headed for annual gains in a year that’s seen an array of supply-side pressures. December 24, 2025 | 10:11 am
