ASX-listed diamond miner Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a its nineteenth diamond of more than 100 ct at its Lulo alluvial mine, in Angola. The miner on Friday announced the recovery of a 114 ct Type IIa D-colour white diamond from Mining Block 46, marking the third stone of over

As much of the world was tested to its limits by the Covid-19 pandemic during 2020, the resilience of diversified miner Anglo American’s diversified business, along with strong metals prices in the latter months of the year, resulted in underlying earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of $9.8-billion

London-listed Petra Diamonds has announced that the scheme conditions effective date has occurred, thereby enabling the start of the implementation of the company’s restructuring. The company expects the restructuring’s effective date to be March 10.

A feasibility study is under way on a mine selected for the testing of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies ahead of their implementation, Minerals Council South Africa senior executive modernisation and safety Sietse van der Woude said on Wednesday. Van der Woude was answering questions after he and PwC South

As conditions in the global diamond market improve, Russian major Alrosa has decided to relaunch the processing plant of its Lomonosov mining and processing division, Severalmaz, on March 1. This is a month earlier than previously planned. The plant is set to process three-million tons of ore in 2021.

Diamond miner Lucapa has recovered a 215 ct diamond from its Mothae mine, in Lesotho. The stone is the largest type IIa D-colour white diamond, and the second of more than 200 ct to be recovered at the 1.1-million tonne a year Mothae plant since commercial diamond mining operations started