( News) ? A rise in rough diamond imports by India took place in February. India imported $1.33 billion worth of rough diamonds, increasing 21.3 percent, based on provisional figures published by the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council ...

The government is planning to launch its own rough diamond sales later this year through the recently formed Okavango Diamond Trading Company. The government is entitled to 11 percent of Debswana's production in 2012, estimated to be approximately 2.6 ...

The US State Department requires that rough diamond importers and exporters file an annual report with the Office of the Special Advisor for Conflict Diamonds at the US Department of State each calendar year on April 2st. The report must state the ...

Combined raw material and work-in-process inventories increased 46%, reflecting higher product acquisition costs, expanded rough diamond sourcing and increased internal production. -- Capital expenditures were $239 million in 2011, compared with $127 ...

Gem Diamonds noted that rough diamond prices rose sharply in the first half of 2011 but fell by about 30 percent in the third quarter due to the deepening Eurozone financial crisis and tightened bank liquidity, before stabilizing in the fourth quarter.

Combined raw materia l and work-in-process inventories increased 46%, reflecting higher product acquisition costs, expanded rough diamond sourcing and increased internal production. Capital expenditures were $239 million in 2011, compared with $127 ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) ? Global economic uncertainty is still likely to cause volatility in the rough diamond market in the first half of , but prices should improve in the second half, the chairperson of London-listed Gem Diamonds said on ...

rough diamond imports rose 21 percent to $1.331 billion during the month, while rough exports declined 16 percent to $107.5 million. India's net rough imports, or imports less exports, rose 26 percent to $1.224 billion. For the month of February, ...

The Moscow-based oil company may mine as much as 4 million carats of rough diamonds a year at the Grib pipe in Russia's northern Arkhangelsk region, once co-owned by De Beers, supplier of about a third of the world's rough diamonds, the individuals ...

... signed a marketing contract last month with London-based WWW International Diamond Consultants Limited (WWW), whereby the company will advise the miner on how best to maximize its rough diamond output once it comes on stream at the end of 2013.