Natural Diamonds still rule but concerns mount
30 August 2023 A large majority of people planning to get married prefer natural diamonds, giving the industry momentum at…
30 August 2023 A large majority of people planning to get married prefer natural diamonds, giving the industry momentum at…
16 August 2023 De Beers will allow sightholders to defer up to half of rough purchases to early next year…
4 August 2023 Botswana‘s state diamond company is planning to diversify how it sells precious stones to the market as…
12 July 2023 Newly published Kimberley Process numbers give fresh insights into current market developments. Too many rough diamonds were…
Botswana has reached an eleventh-hour deal with diamond giant De Beers after months of tense negotiations that saw the continent’s…
May 30, 2023 GABORONE, May 30 (Reuters) – Botswana wants to maintain its partnership with De Beers and is confident…
May 11, 23 (IDEX Online) – Botswana’s diamond industry is joining forces with the Natural Diamond Council (NDC) to promote…
(Bloomberg) — Botswana will acquire a 24% stake in Belgian diamond trader HB Antwerp, in a challenge to the southern…
De Beers recently sold an estimated $495 million (P6.7bn) of rough diamonds in its second auction of the year, a…
Botswana will not drop its demand to sell a bigger share of the diamonds produced by its joint venture with…
Botswana expects output from its mining sector to be flat this year, as the diamond industry loses its sparkle due…
LUCARA Diamonds wanted a quick resolution to diamond sales contract negotiations between Botswana and De Beers as their two-year discussions were…
GABORONE, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Rough diamonds sales by Debswana Diamond Company jumped 37.5% in the first nine months of…
Highlights positive impact of the natural diamond industry on education, conservation and local business NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — This…
Surat manufacturers have opened around 20 diamond cutting and polishing units in Botswana. Vallabh Lakhani, Chairman of Surat Diamond Bourse…
Botswana’s trade balance, which has weakened in the past years, widening the trade imbalance, and causing large drawdowns from the…
Through Okavango Eternal, De Beers is in partnership with National Geographic to address one of Africa’s most critical conservation challenges:…
De Beers Group said on Friday it has extended by six months a 10-year agreement with Botswana for the sale…
Diamond miner De Beers’ rough diamond production increased by 134% year-on-year to 8.2-million carats during the second quarter, which the…
The 1,098-carat diamond is the biggest stone of gem quality to be found in the history of the Debswana company.…
International credit rating agency – Moody’s, says it forecasts that the Botswana economy will recover in 2021, with real GDP…
(Bloomberg) – Debswana Diamond Co. will spend 65 billion pula ($6 billion) to build the world’s largest underground diamond mine…
Diamond Trading Company Botswana is seeking proposals for a 600 kW ground-mounted PV plant to power operations at its mining…
Diamond producer Debswana aims to increase output by 38% this year to pre-pandemic levels of 23 million carats, a company…
Global mining company, De Beers says it expects to report $650 million in rough diamond sales for its first cycle…
Botswana must diversify into commodities such as coal and base metals as a matter of urgency, after a difficult year…