A show like this couldn't be done without the vintage rough diamond, old Satchmo himself, Louis Armstrong, singing What a Wonderful World. R125 from Wednesday to Saturday, with discounted specials of R90 every Tuesday night and Sunday matinee. ...

Experts believe 2011 will be yet another year of poor profitability for the country's 16 polishing and cutting firms as their margins remain stifled by the widening gap between rough diamond and polished prices. The price imbalance, which was triggered ...

Diamcor Mining acquired Krone-Endora, which is directly adjacent to De Beers' Venetia diamond mine, from De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited in February 2011. To expedite the production and supply of rough diamonds from Krone-Endora, Tiffany & Co. ...

The total exports figure includes rough diamond exports, mainly by De Beers, as well as polished diamond exports by the dozen polishing facilities erected as part of the country's beneficiation program. In January, Botswana exported $354.3 million ...

De Beers' Diamdel, offered 214 lots, all of which were sold, during its second cycle of rough diamond auctions, which took place between March 9-28, 2011. According to the secondary market rough supplier, 178 different businesses based in Belgium, ...

... IDI would be opening a new office in the Bharat Diamond Bourse in Mumbai, would be expanding its participation in trade shows, especially in India and Hong Kong, and would be working toward establishing a rough diamond sourcing group in Israel. ...

In 1956, Roth established Star Diamonds, a leading rough diamond trading company and in 1983, he was elected to the board of the HRD. He headed the organization since 2004, taking it through the truculent changes that included a structural change and ...

... said the group's prospects were very good with both Liqhobong and BK11 on track to be in full production in 2011, an exciting portfolio of kimberlites to be evaluated in Botswana, and the continued positive outlook for the rough diamond market. ...

... for the diamond and gemstone industries, has shipped a Galaxy 1000 diamond scanning and mapping system and a Quazer II laser diamond sawing system to a service center in Windhoek for use by Namibia's rough diamond trade and diamond manufacturers. ...

It recently had acquired the project from De Beers. Also, Tiffany & Co, and its diamond sourcing and polishing subsidiary, Laurelton Diamonds, will have the first right of refusal for 100 percent of the rough diamonds from Krone-Endora and Tiffany ...