Diamond Top Stories

Value of top 50 mining companies surges $600 billion from covid lows

Despite gold's price slump, strong copper and iron ore prices lifted MINING.COM's ranking of the world's 50 most valuable miners to a new record high of $1.35 trillion.

MINING.com Editor | April 8, 2021 | 12:21 pm

US blacklists Myanmar state-owned gems enterprise

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a Myanmar state-owned…

Reuters | April 8, 2021 | 7:43 am

Type II micro-diamonds dominate Tres-Or Resources’ Guigues pipe

The Canadian company said that rare Type II micro-diamonds lacking…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | April 7, 2021 | 6:08 am

Canadian First Nation challenges DeBeers’ mine waste plans

The Attawapiskat First Nation opposes a new planned mine landfill…

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 6, 2021 | 6:58 am

Petra finds 39-carat blue diamond at Cullinan mine

The Type IIb gem is said to be of “exceptional…

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 1, 2021 | 9:43 am

Salary not top priority for mining jobseekers – Study

Out of 800 people polled, 40% prioritize work-life balance.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | March 10, 2019 | 12:21 pm

Petra Diamonds shares jump after another discovery at Cullinan

It follows the recent recovery of a 6.12 carat Type II blue stone at the same mine.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 8, 2019 | 11:45 am

Amazon rainforest’s riches up for grabs as Brazil to open indigenous reserves to mining

Brazil’s new right-wing government is going ahead with announced changes to current mining regulations, which include a controversial plan to open up indigenous reserves to mining.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 8, 2019 | 9:00 am

Alrosa’s February diamond sales up 23% over January

Rough diamonds sales in February increased to $340.6 million, compared to $278.2 million in January 2019.

MINING.com Editor | March 7, 2019 | 1:01 pm

Botswana sees lower mineral revenues in 2019

Retail jewellery sales fell during the last quarter of 2018, while polished prices continued to decline into the beginning of 2019.

Reuters | March 7, 2019 | 11:22 am

Zimbabwe to allow foreign platinum miners control of local operations

Foreign platinum and diamond miners have been restricted to only 49 percent ownership of their Zimbabwe operations by the black economic empowerment law.

Reuters | March 7, 2019 | 9:14 am

Zimbabwe to scrap platinum and diamond mine ownership rules

Zimbabwe holds the world’s second-largest known reserves of platinum-group metals after South Africa, plus substantial deposits of gold, diamonds, lithium, iron ore, coal, chrome and nickel.

Bloomberg News | March 6, 2019 | 12:20 pm

Canada’s Northwest Territories gets big resource development boost

The Government of Canada is investing in projects that will support resource development in an area where the territory's three operating diamond mines are located.

MINING.com Editor | March 5, 2019 | 4:20 pm

Star Diamond shares soar as study reveals ‘unusually high’ amount of high-value stones

About 27% of the diamonds at the company’s Orion South and Star exploration sites are type IIa, a category that represents less than 2% of all rough stones mined from kimberlites.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 4, 2019 | 1:00 pm

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