The government run diamond trading company of Angola, Sodiam announced last week that it earned US$ 601.4 million in the first six months of the year (H1 2019) from the sale of 4.1 million carats of rough.

The Diamond Development Initiative (DDI) recently announced the appointment of Ian Rowe as its new Executive Director, with effect from September 2, 2019.

ALROSA, announcing its IFRS financial results for Q2 2019, reported that revenue for the period had fallen by 19% q-o-q to RUB 57 billion.

GJEPC Surat organised a meeting with Diamond India Limited (DIL) in Surat yesterday to discuss measures that could be taken to make gold more easily available to jewellery exporters in key manufacturing centres across Gujarat.

BlueRock Diamonds plc announced that it has sold, in the August tender, a 7.63 carat diamond, retrieved from its Kareevlei Diamond Mine in the Kimberley region of South Africa, for US$ 52,000; thus realising US$ 6,815 per carat.