Aim-listed diamond producer BlueRock Diamonds reports that waste stripping increased in December as mining activities at its Kareevlei diamond mine, in Kimberley, South Africa, returned to normal after the focus was shifted to ore from the KV2 resource to feed the plant to determine the realistic plant capacity. As such,
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Two large high-quality diamonds – each larger than 50 carats – were unearthed in Yakutia on December 2, 2022, Bankers Day, “when Russian bankers celebrated their professional holiday,” according to Rough & Polished. The two stones were extracted at Processing Plant No. 12 from the ore mined at the
A new list by miningintelligence.com, quoted by IDEX Online, names the Jwaneng diamond mine, in Botswana, as the world’s richest diamond mine for the first three quarters of 2022. Jwaneng produced 10.3 million carats in 2022. Orapa, also in Botswana, came second with 8 million carats. Both Jwaneng and
South Africa’s BlueRock Diamonds has said that results of a two-month test to determine the realistic capacity of the Kareevlei diamond plant show that “production of just below 90 000 tons a month is achievable, in line with previous guidance.” Mining in October and November yielded an “average grade
Alrosa’s chief geologist, Konstantin Garanin said in an interview to news channel 1sn.ru that the Russian miner expects to find more diamonds in Yakutia and other places “which could take total reserves to an estimated 1.1 billion carats,” IDEX Online reports. According to Garanin, the most promising new territories
Diamond miner De Beers sold $410-million of rough diamonds in its final sales cycle of this year. “Demand for our rough diamonds over the final sales cycle of 2022 was in line with expectations, ahead of the normal seasonal closure of polishing factories in southern Africa over the Christmas period
