India’s Union Ministry of Commerce & Industry, the country’s representative authority on the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme today released a press statement throwing further light on the soon-to-commence KP Intersessional Meeting.

Diamonds ALROSA, a group company of the Russian diamond mining conglomerate, recently organised a tender in Israel of polished diamonds manufactured by it.

Zimbabwe’s Minister of Mines Winston Chitando has said that the signing of a joint venture agreement between ALROSA and the government-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) is “imminent” and the Russian miner “would soon start operations” in the country, according to a report in the Zimbabwe-based website of The Independent.

Glenn Nord, member of the GIA Board of Governors and past president of the Institute, passed away last week in USA, GIA announced in a statement recently.