Canadian development company Debut Diamonds Inc reports that Tundra Airborne Surveys Ltd. has mobilized to commence a high-sensitivity/high-resolution airborne magnetic survey over its 229 square kilometer claim block immediately to the north and west of

The Diamond Federation of Hong Kong, China Limited has announced its Executive Committee for 2011 through 2013, naming LEUNG, Sik Wah as honorary life president, MA, Y.Y. Lawrence as president and CHOW, W.S. Winston as Chairman. Other appointments

Stephane Chardon, the Chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme's (KPCS) powerful Working Group on Monitoring (WGM), convened an emergency teleconference this week a day after the airing of BBC's Panorama investigative television program

Namibia's Ministry of Finance has announced plans to raise its mining tax by 17 percent, though the increase will not apply to the diamond sector. The ministry said in a statement that the mining tax will be raised from 37.4 percent to 44 percent

The government of Zimbabwe has rejected all 175 of the empowerment proposals submitted by foreign-owned mining companies operating in the country, threatening to "kick them out" if the don't revise the plans, according to SW Radio Africa. The

Members of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) employed by De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) began striking on Friday evening after wage talks between the two parties failed earlier in the week. Eighty percent of the company's workers are