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
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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
AGD Diamonds has recovered a 118 carat white and high quality rough diamond from its Grib diamond mine. The Grib diamond mine is located in the in the North-Western part of Russia, approximately 130km from the regional capital of Arkhangelsk. This is the 5th diamond larger than 50 carats to
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
After trying to offload it for four years, Gem Diamonds finally sold its Ghaghoo mine in Botswana. According to Diamond World, Gem Diamonds sold the mine for $4 million to Okwa Diamonds, a company owned by Vast Resources and Botswana Diamonds. Credit: Free Wind 2014 / Shutterstock.com Ghaghoo
Angola, which was forced to reduce its guidance production to 9.3 million carats in 2021 due to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, has announced its plans to produce 13.8 million carats of diamonds in 2022, Rough & Polished reports. Credit: Lucapa Ganga Júnior, Chairman of the