Sustainability pressure turns into competitive advantage for miners — report

The company managed to sell 90,642 carats of the 92,136 carats it made available under the auction.

Debswana, a 50/50 joint venture between De Beers and the government of Botswana, is set to close its Damtshaa mine and scale down production at Orapa.

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The stone, described as being of "4 Black Sawables 2 colour" quality with an octahedral shape, was extracted by the company's business unit, Aikhal Mining and Processing Division (MPD).

25-fold investment jump in less than a decade. That's how fast China's gaining control over Africa’s mining industry. And Beijing's only pushing harder now. 

The rating and research agency expects producers to have to deepen cut prices as supply and demand challenges continue into the new year.

Anglo-American perceived as "the most likely of the diversified mining majors to go bust" even if it "goes down fighting".

We have said previously that Africa is the new land of opportunity for speculators and investors.

Johannesburg based engineer and project delivery company DRA Global has commented that it is pleased and proud that its innovative process plant designs have assisted in the recovery of very large diamonds at the Karowe mine of Boteti Mining (Pty) Ltd, a 100% owned subsidiary of Lucara Diamond Corporation.