Rio Tinto, which owns 100% of the Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada,  has reported lower production in Diavik in the first quarter of the year when compared to Q1 2023 and Q4 2022, Rough & Polished reports.   In Q1 2023, Rio Tinto recovered 954,000 carats from

De Beers’ production of rough diamonds in the first quarter of 2023 remained flat, as the mining giant reported production of 8.9 million during the period – “exactly the same as Q1 last year,” according to IDEX Online.   Production was up almost 10% on Q4 2022 (8.2 million carats),

De Beers Group has announced that it is the recipient of the 2022 Tom Peters Memorial Mine Reclamation Award for its reclamation work on the Victor Mine since its closure in 2019, according to a press release.   The award, presented by the Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Land Reclamation

Australian miner Lucapa Diamond, which operates mines in Angola (the Lulo mine) and Lesotho (the Mothae mine), has announced that it mined “record volumes” in the first quarter of the year (ended 31 March), according to IDEX Online.   Lucapa sold 7,162 carats from Lulo during Q1 – a rise

Norm Mountain Diamonds (SMD),  a subsidiary of Namakwa Diamonds’ together with the government of Lesotho, has recovered a 108.39-carat Fancy pink diamond from its Kao diamond mine in Lesotho. IDEX Online reports.   According to SMD, the “exceptionally rare Type IIa diamond” is one of the largest pink diamonds ever

Earlier this month, on April 8, the M. V. Lomonosov diamond mine in Arkhangelsk Province has witnessed a rare find: a heart-shaped diamond weighing 16.64 carats, Rough & Polished reports.   Last year, the same mine produced a rare cloud-shaped stone weighing 92.34 carats. In 2018,  a diamond shaped like