Diamond Top Stories

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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

World’s top 5 miners lose $540 BILLION market worth

CHART: The commodity slump has slashed major miners' market valuations to 60–88% below 2011 highs.

Frik Els | September 4, 2015 | 11:12 pm

Extremely rare mineral found in 1.2-billion-year-old meteorite impact in Scotland

The finding is more than double the age of the previous oldest known occurrence of reidite, believed to have formed about 450 million years ago.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 1, 2015 | 3:08 am

Spanish police arrest American-Belgian man on ‘blood diamond’ charges

The 64-year-old American-Belgian citizen has become the first businessman ever arrested for suspected involvement in the illegal trade of “blood” diamonds.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 31, 2015 | 10:00 am

Power shortages, cost cuts to hit Congo’s copper output

With the only exception of gold, production numbers for most other commodities mined in the Central African nation are also expected to decline this year.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 28, 2015 | 4:15 am

Jim Rogers: Commodity bull market hasn’t gone away

Commodity investing legend says the Chinese market is on its way to "finding a good bottom."

Frik Els | August 26, 2015 | 11:21 am

Canada, Australia, US, Chile and Mexico, the top destinations for mining investors

Despite current adverse conditions, advisory firm Behre Dolbear is recommending mining stakeholders to focus on markets that have been able to ride the wave relatively well so far.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 25, 2015 | 8:26 am

Mining private equity is being fundamentally transformed

Appian Capital founder Michael Scherb: "You're now seeing the same changes in mining that happened in oil and gas which is now heavily supported by PE"

Frik Els | August 23, 2015 | 11:45 pm

New variety of hard-to-find mineral discovered in England

The last time a vein of Blue John Stone, a legendary semi-precious mineral, was discovered was in the in the XIX century.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 21, 2015 | 6:30 am

Small, ancient diamonds reveal seawater key for precious gems formation

Scientists from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K believe ancient sea water helped to the formation of diamonds hundreds of kilometres underground.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 21, 2015 | 3:15 am

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