According to Oded Edelman, the co-founder and CEO of R2Net, a company that has created an ecommerce platform dedicated to diamond jewelry.

U.S. polished diamond imports rose 28.8% year on year to $2.137 billion in September, with the average price for goods increasing 12.8 percent to $1,874 per carat.

Botswana has been hailed for its instrumental role in the resuscitation of diamond mining in Swaziland through provision of support for the enactment of key legislation and benchmarking.

BHP Billiton announced changes to its senior management team: Alex Vanselow, Group Executive and Chief Financial Officer, will retire from BHP Billiton at the end of February 2012. He will be succeeded by Graham Kerr, recently President of Diamonds and Specialty Products; and Mike Henry, President of Marketing, will join the Group Management Committee as Group Executive and Chief Marketing Officer, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, Marius Kloppers.

“Synthetic diamond’s extreme properties enhance performance in new technology applications to levels not otherwise possible,” said Susie Wheeler, Managing Director, Element Six Ventures Group. “Locating the Ventures’ office in Silicon Valley ...

North Australian Diamonds Limited (“North Australian” or “the Company”), is pleased to announce that it has awarded the contract for a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for a 1.5Mtpa+ (approx. 300,000 carats per annum) diamond mining operation at its 100% owned Merlin diamond project in the Northern Territory to Consulmet Pty Ltd (Consulmet). The DFS will also consider a potential larger scale operation.