Category: International

Rio Tinto is celebrating 20 years of production from its Diavik diamond mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The Diavik diamond deposit was discovered in the 1990s as part of the largest mineral prospecting rush in Canadian history. Commercial production at Diavik began in 2003, and since then Diavik has produced over 140 million carats of rough diamonds through a combination of surface and underground mining. The Diavik production comprises predominantly white gem-quality diamonds

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GIA, (Gemological Institute of America) will join Tracr, the world’s only distributed diamond blockchain platform that starts at the source of natural diamonds. GIA’s participation in Tracr will see the world’s leading diamond grading laboratory include an immutable record of the provenance of polished natural diamonds in its diamond grading reports for the first time as the industry continues to progress towards a unified approach for provenance assurance. Consumers purchasing a diamond traced from the

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The world’s largest diamond, discovered in South Africa in 1905, was given to the British monarchy two years later and has been in its possession since. Some South Africans are calling for the United Kingdom to return the world’s largest diamond, known as the Star of Africa, which is set in the royal sceptre that King Charles III will hold at his coronation on Saturday. The diamond, which weighs 530 carats, was discovered in South

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