Gem Diamonds to restart Letšeng mine

Major loss for Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company.

Venezuelan President Maduro shocked the market in early December when he followed China's 'petro-yuan' futures announcement by making headlines of himself proclaiming a new national cryptocurrency - the 'Petro' - to overcome The West's "financial blockade."

With this purchase, Graff Diamonds says it has acquired, cut and polished the majority of the top 21 largest stones of the 21st century.

US Treasury said Gertler has used his close relationship with the country’s president, Joseph Kabila, to amass a fortune through corrupt and opaque deals.

A homeless youth who got a 14-carat gold ring with square-cut diamonds by mistake. What happened later is almost unbelievable.

More than half the 2017 combined market cap gains for the world's largest listed miners accrued to just five firms as gold producers drop out of top 10.

While long-term diamond demand may be slowing, this year rough-diamond prices experienced positive turn-around and prices of polished diamonds stabilized.

The government says the cleric violated the Mines and Minerals Act.

Panel of investment banks and research houses forecast declines in copper, zinc, lead and palladium prices in 2018.