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

Canadian junior miner Diamcor has put up 5,593 carats of rough diamonds in its first tender of the quarter – all sourced at its Krone-Endora at Venetia Project In South Africa, IDEX Online reports.   Among the stones offered are “several individual gem quality diamonds in the Specials (+10.8 carats)

Lucapa has unearthed a Type IIa 131-carat stone  at its Lulo mine, in Angola. The “spectacular” gem, according to the Australian miner, is the miner’s fourth +100 carat diamond found in Lulo this year.    According to IDEX Online, it’s the 29th +100 carat diamond recovered since commercial production started