Recently, Rockwell Diamonds reached an agreement with Africa Vanguard Resources to refinance a purchase deal from 2008 in which the new arrangement gives Africa Vanguard Resources an 8 percent holding in Rockwell for the Jasper diamond mine and paves ...

Development of the country's first underground diamond mine has been slowed down by the heavy sand overburden in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, with 60 metres of a tunnel dug thus far and another 450 metres outstanding. The mine's UK developer, ...

... Company is pleased to announce that it has been notified by its Joint Venture Partner Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. that they have discovered a new kimberlite, the LD-1 Kimberlite on its Lac de Gras Diamond project 12 km west of the Diavik diamond mine.

A mine plan and budget for calendar 2012 has been approved by Rio Tinto plc, the operator of the Diavik diamond mine, and the Company. The plan for calendar 2012 foresees Diavik diamond mine production of approximately 8.3 million carats (100% basis) ...

Harry Winston Diamond Corporation (HW.TO) reported that in the first calendar quarter of 2012, Diavik produced 1.60 million carats from 0.5 million tonnes of ore processed. Diamonds recovered in the 2012 first quarter was higher by approximately 19% ...

RIO TINTO's bumper diamond harvest so far this year may add some sparkle to the miner's campaign to sell the famous Argyle mine. But sales figures in the March quarter for many of the miner's other commodities came in lower than the market had expected ...

By Peter Matambanadzo, 16 April 2012 Chimanimani ? GOLD and diamond mining company Development Trust of Zimbabwe-OZGEO (Private) Limited could go into full commercial diamond mining in Chimanimani by the end of this year as current exploration ...

The publication added that KKR is said to be leading the bidding for BHP's Ekati diamond mine in Canada for around $750 million. Reuters reported last month that KKR was one of the few remaining parties working on a possible bid for BHP Billiton's ...

Private equity firm KKR will benefit from economies of scale if it buys diamond assets being offloaded by mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, an analyst says. BHP Billiton in November has put its sole diamond mine, the 80 per cent held EKATI ...

Fresh from his award-nominated collaboration with Jon Hopkins for last year's album diamond mine, the EP is released by Domino on May 28. It's the second piece of KC-related news today, with it revealed earlier that he is curating May's Refugee Week ...