De Beers diamond sales up 1.5%

The national government should promptly address uncertainties now hounding the mining industry due to the former’s unclear policy towards the sector the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines says.

Steinmetz Diamond, a diamond brand from the De Beers group, put a 35.60 carat pink-brown diamond on display in the Tower of London on Monday, as part of the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee.

The Obama administration has granted visas to two senior officials from Zimbabwe to attend a meeting of an international body charged with monitoring and preventing the sale of blood diamonds, despite human rights concerns and financial sanctions against the pair.

In my email this past week was a missive from the news-editor of Mining.com. He passed on a letter sent to him for possible publication. I repeat the entire letter below. It has the edge I like. It has the honesty of an old man about to retire: I respect that. It has the frustration of change; and we all know the feeling.

It took six months to cut into shape and now it is on display today in the Tower of London to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, a fancy pink-brown colour 35.60 carat diamond.

Since gold ETFs and Apple stock have been the financial stories of the decade, perhaps there was a need for a device that combines something from each.

The creative department at ADT Home Security Services produced the following infographic, depicting some of the largest diamond, cash and art-related crimes around the world in recent times.

With positive feasibility studies in hand, companies aim to start building at least three new diamond mines in Canada by the third-quarter of next year, at a combined cost of around $3.4 billion.

Graff Diamonds only received half the expected orders. Its announcement comes just one week after China Nonferrous Mining Corp pulled the planned listing of its Zambian copper assets in Hong Kong.