Canadian diamond mining company Dominion Diamond Mines recovered the largest known gem quality diamond ever found in North America. The 552-carat yellow Canadamark diamond was unearthed in October at the Diavik diamond…
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After two consecutive quarters of year-on-year decline, the third quarter of 2018 saw gold jewellery demand in India grow by 10% to 148.8 tonnes, according to the World Gold Council’s (WGC’s) latest…
CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, has been certified as being carbon neutral in 2017, which is for the fifth straight year that it offset its greenhouse gas emissions through the purchase of…
The Diavik diamond mine has been awarded the Northwest Territories Mining and Exploration (MAX) Special Achievement Award for the design, construction and operations of its dikes and its contribution as a joint…
Greenland Ruby, Greenland’s only miner of ruby and pink sapphire, recently announced that the exclusive Danish luxury jewellery brand Hartmann’s has introduced a collection of jewels using Greenlandic rubies and pink sapphires.…
The long-awaited structural policy reforms surrounding the organisation of India’s gold and jewellery industry are now in the finishing stages. Participants in the India Gold & Jewellery Summit (IGJS) 2018 unanimously commended…
In a quaint workshop, somewhere in Johari Bazaar, Jaipur, I first heard the term Paanidar … Paani means water in Hindi. It’s an expression commonly used in India to describe the finest…
Rio Tinto opened a fourth diamond pipe, known as A21, at the remote subarctic Diavik diamond mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The new open pit pipe will provide an important…
The Colombian ministry of mines and energy, in association with the Colombian Geological Service and the National University, has budgeted $30 million for a fiveyear “Mineral Digital Fingerprint” project that started in…
In his address at the India-Russia Business Summit organised by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Invest India and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi on October 5th, union…