Alrosa made big bucks at international auctions

The star of the show was a 341.9 carat diamond —unveiled in April —, which sold for $20.55 million

In the past year, they've lost 9.4% of their value, the recently launched Zimnisky Global Rough Diamond Price Index shows.

Getting — and keeping — a social license to operate, as well as resource nationalism, remain among the top five business risks for the industry.

The sparkly, white diamond half the size of a quarter is the fifth largest found since the park was established in 1972.

If you’ve ever been to a diamond investment pitch you’ve probably seen ‘The Chart,’ the one where diamond demand soars, while supply trails forlornly in its wake.

Conflict mining remains an important issue, and one we are beginning to see governments step in to address in different ways.

Negotiations between the parties, still at an early stage, are said to have generated solid interest from both sides.

The miner is spending $1.3 million in exploration work aimed to reopen a historic tin-indium mine in Nova Scotia.

Sunday's fiasco was the third major failure for America's commercial space industry in less than a year.