The opening of the Ghaghoo diamond mine, located in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), that took place this week was not only a significant milestone for the mine’s owner Gem Diamonds, but also for the country ...
Tags: diamond mine, diamond
Demand for engagement and wedding diamond jewelry is stronger than ever, presenting an unparalleled opportunity for the trade. Today's couples may be well-informed and have larger budgets, but they're still looking for guidance in their ...
Tags: Jewelry, Bridal Jewelry, Crafts
This 8.41-carat fancy vivid purple-pink diamond is of internally flawless clarity, which is rare in pink diamonds of this size and color. It is expected to sell for $12.8 to $15.4 million this October in Hong Kong. Hong Kong--Let the ...
Russia-based steelmaking and mining giant Evraz has announced the signing an agreement to sell 34 percent of the issued share capital of its South African subsidiary Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium (Highveld) to Macrovest 147 Proprietary ...
Tags: Evraz, Metallurgy, Mineral
Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its gallium nitride (GaN)-on-diamond wafers have been proven by Raytheon Company to significantly outperform ...
Tags: GaN-on-Diamond Wafers, GaN-on-SiC
Forevermark by Stephen Webster's 18-karat white gold Heritage Fleur engagement ring features a 0.90-carat round brilliant diamond surrounded by pavé. This is the second bridal line for Webster, who has teamed with Forevermark for ...
Driven mainly by heat spreaders for high-power device thermal management, the diamond materials market for semiconductor devices will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14% to more than $43m in 2020, according to the base ...
Tags: Semiconductors, Diamond Materials
At the SEMICON West 2013 event in San Francisco (9-11 July), Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) has announced that it has expanded its global manufacturing ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Synthetic diamond materials firm Luxembourg-registered Element Six (part of the De Beers Family of Companies, and co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Group4 Labs Inc of Menlo ...
Tags: diamond materials, Electronics
Production by the world's largest diamond producer De Beers has been consistently going down past many years and as a result now India's DTC (Diamond Trading Company, rough diamond distribution arm of De Beers) sightholders are facing acute ...
A mining company with a plan to do for emeralds what De Beers has done for diamonds has been delivered a blow by the government it is in partnership with. Seemingly out of the blue, the Zambia Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water ...
The global diamond industry has been passing through a 'Transformation Stage' since the severe economic recession hit it in 2008. The diamond prices too have become highly volatile since then, and are expected to grow at an accelerated rate ...
With diminishing diamond production in the aging mines globally on one hand and ever-increasing demand world-wide on the other, the industry would struggle to keep pace during 2013 with growing consumption in emerging economies like India ...
Tags: Diamond, Miners, Growing Demand
Luxembourg-registered Element Six (which is part of the De Beers Family of Companies and is co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has opened its first US manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley (in Santa Clara, CA), as part of its ...
Tags: Element Six, CVD, Silicon Valley, semiconductors, synthetic diamond
America may be the largest consumer of diamonds today but the focus is now being shifted to Asia which could overtake the US by the end of this decade. Rapid growth of consumers in China and India is helping now to drive a rebound from the ...
Tags: consumer of diamonds, consumers in China, economic downturn, America