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Report Cites Continued Abuse at Marange Mines
Residents and artisanal miners in Zimbabwe's Marange region are still experiencing human rights abuses at the hands...
News Apr 21, 2013 Deena Taylor
Botswana Diamonds
Botswana Diamonds Acquires Mozambique Exploration License
Botswana Diamonds acquired an additional license to evaluate diamond prospects on the Save River in Mozambique, close to Zimbabwe's border.The...
News Apr 11, 2013 Deena Taylor
Botswana Diamonds
Botswana Diamonds Enters Option Agreement With Morminas
Botswana Diamonds entered into an option agreement with a Mozambican company, Morminas, a subsidiary of EIP Group of Portugal to evaluate...
News Mar 19, 2013 Jeff Miller
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EU Eases Sanctions on Zimbabwe
The foreign affairs council of the European Union (EU) suspended a travel ban on six members of Zimbabwe's government...
News Feb 18, 2013 Jeff Miller
Rough Diamond Sorting
The Rough Reality of 2012‎
The 2011 global production data published by the Kimberley Process (KP) last week ‎presented a vastly different...
Analysis Aug 10, 2012 Avi Krawitz
Catoca Mine Small
Catoca Mine's Production +1% in 2011
Production at the Catoca mine in Angola rose 1 percent year on year to 6.780 million ‎carats in 2011, but the...
News Aug 06, 2012 Avi Krawitz
zimbabwe diamonds
Maguwu Defines Diamond Issues in Zimbabwe
Martin Rapaport, the chairman of the Rapaport Group, interviews Farai Maguwu, the director of Centre for Research...
Video Jul 03, 2012 Rapaport News
Marange Fields
UN Human Rights Commissioner to Visit Marange Fields
United Nations' human rights commissioner Navanethem Pillay will conduct a field visit to ‎the Marange diamond fields...
News May 06, 2012 Deena Talyor
Apple Hong Kong Store
The Apple Effect
The recent protests against the labor conditions at tech giant Apple’s manufacturing facilities in China should serve...
Analysis Feb 17, 2012 Avi Krawitz
Philippe Mellier
Zimbabwe Diamonds Won’t Affect De Beers, Says Mellier
The large quantities of rough diamonds from Zimbabwe’s Marange mines currently entering the market will have...
News Feb 12, 2012 Avi Krawitz
Rough Diamonds
Counting Carats
If one clear trend has evolved in the diamond market during the past six months, it is that businesses...
Analysis Feb 03, 2012 Avi Krawitz
Tendai Biti
Zim's Finance Minister Decries U.S. Sanctions
In a letter written to the U.S. assistant secretary of treasury, Charles Collyns, Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Tendai Biti, decried...
News Jan 16, 2012 Ricci Dipshan
Surat Factory Workers
Cautious India
India’s diamond trade is cautious about the year ahead. By default, so is everyone else, given the country’s dominant...
Analysis Jan 13, 2012 Avi Krawitz
RapNet to Hold Conference Call on Marange Diamond Ban
PRESS RELEASE, December 20, 2011, New York: Martin Rapaport, Chairman of the Rapaport Group will be addressing the Group’s policy of trading Marange...
Press Release Dec 20, 2011 Rapaport
India Releases Marange Rough Seized From Surat Diamond Firm
India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has released a consignment of rough diamonds worth $22.7 million (INR 1.20 billion) seized from Arjav Diamonds...
News Dec 20, 2011 Rapaport News
Global Witness
Competitive NGO’s
The recent withdrawal of Global Witness from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) generated much press...
Analysis Dec 16, 2011 Avi Krawitz
Alrosa rough
SRDSIL Buys $5M Worth of Rough from ALROSA
Surat Rough Diamond Sourcing (India) Ltd. (SRDSIL), a consortium of Indian diamantaires, has purchased rough worth $5.2...
News Nov 22, 2011 Dilipp S Nag
EU Flag
EU Welcomes Kimberley Process Decision on Marange Exports
The European Union's European Council welcomed the Kimberley Process agreement reached in Kinshasa yesterday regarding the...
News Nov 02, 2011 Deena Taylor
gjepc
GJEPC Welcomes Resolution on Marange Rough Exports
The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) expressed relief over the prospect of a Kimberley Process...
News Nov 02, 2011 Dilipp S Nag
kimberley process
JA and DMIA Call for Definitive Kimberley Process Improvements
Jewelers of America (JA) and the Diamond Manufacturers and Importers Association of America (DMIA) issued a joint statement...
News Oct 28, 2011 Jeff Miller
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