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

Russian diamond mining giant Alrosa will build a new mine on the site of flooded Mir in Yakutia, with investments in the project expected to amount to 126 billion rubles (more than $2 billion), according to Rough & Polished.   Head of Yakutia Republic Aisen Nikolaev said at a recent

Diamond miner De Beers’ rough production has increased 4% to 9.6 million carats in the 3rd quarter of the year, “mainly due to the treatment of higher grade ore at both Orapa in Botswana and South Africa as well as continued strong performance in Namibia,” according to a report in