The De Beers Group is on its way to becoming a miner and marketer of carbon-neutral diamonds. The world’s largest producer of diamonds by value is setting out to achieve – by 2030 – carbon neutrality at its mines in Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa, as well as in
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The strong performance recovery in the second half of 2020 continued in the fourth quarter of the year, says diversified miner Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani. “As expected, second-half production returned to 95% of 2019 rates, benefiting from strong performances in copper at Los Bronces, in Chile, and in iron-ore at Minas-Rio,
Diamond miner De Beers has revised its production guidance for 2021 downwards to between 32-million and 34-million carats, from the previous target of 33-million to 35-million carats, amid ongoing operational challenges and expected lower production from the final cut at its Venetia mine, in South Africa’s Limpopo province.
Cullinan delivers once more: Petra Diamonds announced that it has unearthed a 299-carat Type IIa white gem-quality diamond at the South African mine, Rough & Polished reports. Credit: Petra Diamonds The huge stone was recovered in January, and is expected to be sold during Petra’s next tender in
Mining Shared Value (MSV), a nonprofit initiative of Engineers Without Borders Canada, reports that four mining companies have, so far, adopted the Mining Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism (LPRM), with two more confirming their plans to do so shortly. Ivanhoe Mines became the first company to use the international transparency standard
Diamond miner Lucara Diamond has recovered an unbroken Type IIa 378 ct gem-quality top white diamond from milling of ore sourced from the M/PK(S) unit of the South Lobe at its 100%-owned Karowe mine, in Botswana. This recovery is the second gem-quality diamond of greater than 300 ct to be
