Unlike SRDSIL's first online rough diamond auction , held in January, the upcoming auction will tender approximately 200000 carats of lower-range diamonds targeted toward small and medium-sized diamond manufacturers. According to SRDSIL spokesman Aagam ...

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, ...

By Dan Whitehead Published 3 February, 2012 In the debate about the rights and wrongs of DLC, one aspect rarely discussed is how downloadable expansions can enable a developer to build on flawed potential and polish up a rough diamond.

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.

WHILE the rest of the country might be forgetting who the winner of Diamonds in the Ruff is, the experience is firmly etched on Thembekazi Mazaleni's memory. The 22-year old lass born in East London was on Tuesday announced the winner, ...

SURAT: After the success of its first ever online rough diamond auction in the diamond city, Surat rough diamond Sourcing India Limited (SRDSIL) is all set to organize second one in the next few days. The first auction had high quality rough diamonds ...

by indiatimes.com PRICES of rough diamonds from De Beers and Russia-based Alrosa last month took a knock in India's diamond city of Surat, easing up to 10 percent, especially in the low range category, because of competition from Zimbabwe stones.

rough diamond prices were lower in the final months of 2011, as economic uncertainty, caused by the eurozone crisis, continued to take its toll. London-listed Gem Diamonds reported last week that the average value of its fourth-quarter Let?eng sales ...

This combination of a slow polished market and continued manufacturing for stock is discouraging rough diamond purchases. The question that needs to be asked is what will happen now? Alrosa, very much interested in a successful IPO, wants to be able to ...

COM --- 02 February 2012 - rough diamond prices have now stabilised after falling from the highs reached in June, according to the newly-published Petra Diamonds interim trading update. Petra is a leading independent diamond mining group and an ...