They included Anglo American's $US5.1bn buyout de beers and Eldorado Gold's $US2.5bn takeover European Goldfields. KPMG said strong activity in Canada in particular had boosted the market, with total activity there during last year up 30 per cent ...

SURAT: Backed by high demand from the world's biggest diamond cutting and polishing centre in Surat, Zimbabwe is all set influence price and demand for rough diamonds in 2012. The market is currently ruled by the giant mining companies like de beers, ...

LVMH is a huge collection of luxury goods companies spanning everything from de beers and Tag Heuer to Christian Dior and Dom Perignon. Not to mention Louis Vuitton, Moët and Hennessy. And is it all Monsieur Arnault's own work?

LN) $5.1 billion buyout of de beers SA, and Eldorado Gold Corp.'s (EGO) $2.5 billion takeover of European Goldfields Ltd. said strong activity in Canada in particular had boosted the market, with total activity there during 2011 up 30% ...

Debswana's rough diamonds are first sent to the Diamond Trading Company (DTC) in London where they are pooled with stones from other de beers mines before being redistributed to DTCs in Namibia, South Africa and Botswana for on-sale.

LVMH, whose portfolio includes Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, Moet & Chandon, Christian Dior, de beers and Tag Heuer, yesterday posted sales of ?23.7 billion ($29.09bn) for 2011, up 16.7 per cent on the previous year. The group's net profit inched up by a ...

KIERON HODGSON: The diamond market itself is now - if we think back to prior to the 2008 crisis market sentiment and investors perception of the diamond market was that it was owned by de beers. Many people I've spoken to have never even heard of ...

According to the de beers website, Scannex is a low X-ray dose full body scanner useful for resource protection. Its primary application is the detection or deterring of illegal diamond possession and trade by personnel at diamond mining operations.

Anglo American holds 80% of Anglo American Platinum, the world's largest platinum miner, and 45% of the biggest diamond producer, de beers. Anglo is wrapping a $5bn deal to buy the Oppenheimer family's 40% stake in de beers.

Diamond company de beers, which operates a mine near Attawapiskat, provided one of its officials to manage the project. The project stalled because the third-party manager refused to release funds. The project is projected to cost about $2.4 million.