Rio Tinto announced it has updated its full-year diamond output at Diavik, its diamond mine in Northwest Territories, Canada. According to IDEX Online, Rio Tinto expects a 3% increase to 3.84 million carats.   Credit: Rio Tinto   In Q4, production was up 27% – from 910,000 carats to 1.155

Low grade ores are being blamed for the greatly reduced diamond output at the Murowa mine in Zimbabwe. According to IDEX Online, output at the mine fell 43% in Q3 2021.   Credit: Shutterstock.com   Murowa’s operators RZM Murowa, an associate of RioZim, blamed “low-grade ores from the K1 pit

Following a survey by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), which hinted at the presence of diamonds in the area, the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) “is now set to launch a massive search for gemstones,” Rough & Polished reports.   Credit:   According to the report, the

After completing a scoping study at its newly acquired Merlin project in the Northern Territory of Australia, Lucapa Diamonds said that it expects Merlin to be the biggest commercial diamond mine in Australia, Mining Weekly reports.   Credit: Merlin diamonds   Merlin is expected to start producing commercially in 2024

In a recent interview to the Sunday Mail newspaper, Zimbabwe’s Mines minister Winston Chitando said that the state-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) is on track to record diamond production in 2021, Rough & Polished reports.   Credit: fivepointsix / shutterstock.com   According to the report, Chitando said that the

Anglo American, the parent company of diamond miner De Beers, has cut its production forecasts for all commodities except diamonds, IDEX Online reports.    Credit: De Beers   The company expects diamond production to be 32 million carats in 2021, similar to the production in the pre-Covid level of 2019