Namdeb Diamond Corporation, a 50:50 joint venture between De Beers Group and the government of Namibia, has introduced a new long-term business plan that will extend the current life-of-mine (LoM) of its land-based operations by 20 years to 2042.   Credit: Free Wind 2014 / Shutterstock.com   According to Mining

Diamond mining giant De Beers has begun to search for marine diamonds off the coast of Greenland, according to a report quoted by IDEX Online.    Credit: De Beers   The report claims that De Beers commissioned “an eight-day survey of around 800 kilometers of seabed” at a depth of

A “robot dog” called Spot is being tested at the Gahcho Kue diamond mine, in Canada, by mining giant De Beers “to see whether it can take over routine tasks from human co-workers,” according to IDEX Online.   Credit: De Beers   The four-legged robot is given several jobs, including

A 177-meter, $470 million ship – De Beers’ new diamond recovery vessel and the largest of its kind in the world – has set sail from a shipyard in Romania “to be fitted with mission equipment for work off the Namibian coast,” IDEX Online reports.   Credit: De Beers