Lucapa Diamond Company has revised its estimated diamond reserves at the Lulo mine in Angola, reporting that they are higher by 25% than previously thought.   Credit: Lucapa   According to IDEX Online, “independent consultants have assessed in-situ resources as 100,700 carats, more than five times the 2019 output of

More good news from the Letšeng mine in Lesotho: Gem Diamonds has announced the recovery of a high-quality white diamond weighing 114 carats – the second diamond bigger than 100 carats it has found this year.   Credit: Gem Diamonds   In February, Gem Diamonds recovered an exceptional 183 carat

Russian mining giant Alrosa has unearthed its first colored rough diamond at the new Verkhne-Munskoye deposit in Yakutia. The deposit started operations in 2018.   Credit: Alrosa   The stone is a bright yellow gem-quality diamond weighing 17.44 carats, recovered in mid-February from the Zapolyarnaya kimberlite pipe. In a press

Lucapa Diamond has published the results from the search for the hard-rock source of the diamonds within the Lulo diamond field in Angola, announcing it has found 45 diamonds weighing 30.3 carats – some of which are Fancy and rare.   Credit: Lucapa   According to a press release, the

Gem Diamonds has recovered an exceptional 183 carat white Type IIa diamond from the Letšeng mine in Lesotho.   Credit: Gem Diamonds   On the same day (February 3), the company also recovered two different high quality diamonds – one of 89 carats and the other of 70 carats, from