Mountain Province Diamonds has announced production and sales results for Q4 (ended December 31, 2022) and 2022 from the Gahcho Kué Diamond Mine.    According to Rough & Polished,during Q4, 1,621,800 carats were recovered. For the full year 2022, 5.52 million carats were recovered (less than the guidance of 5.60

Rio Tinto, which owns 100% of the Diavik Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories in Canada, has lowered Diavik’s 2023 production forecast – from 4.5 to 5 million carats to 3 to 3.8 carats.   According to IDEX Online, Rio Tinto “gave no explanation for the lower forecast in its

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