How diamond miners discovered a 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck in the Namib Desert
In August 2024, the Jasper House Museum in Oranjemund, Namibia, unveiled a new exhibition dedicated to the artifacts ...
Smithsonian Magazine6d
See for Yourself One of the World’s Rarest Red Diamonds at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum
It’s red.” Up close, the old-mine-cut diamond—shaped like a square, with rounded edges—has a stunning, saturated hue. Only about 30 percent of natural diamonds are considered gem-worthy ...
MINING.COM5d
Rare yellow diamond found at Rio Tinto’s Diavik mine
The 158.20-carat rock is one of only five yellow diamonds weighing more than 100 carats ever found at Diavik in its 22-year ...
Mining Weekly5d
Rio Tinto recovers 158.2 ct yellow diamond at Diavik
Diversified miner Rio Tinto has recovered a 158.2 ct yellow diamond at its Diavik mine, in Canada – one of only five yellow ...
'Holy smokes': Huge log believed to be 50 million years old unearthed at N.W.T. mine
A log of wood believed to be 50 million years old has been hauled up from below ground at Diavik diamond mine in the N.W.T. — ...
MoneyWeek6y
The miner growing its own diamonds
Yet tougher anti-trust action by regulators and competition from Alrosa, the old Soviet diamond miner, meant that by 2001 the monopoly had been broken. Today De Beers accounts for only one-third ...
IDEX Online5d
Diavik Yields a 158-ct Yellow Diamond
(IDEX Online) - Rio Tinto has recovered a huge yellow diamond from its Diavik mine, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, in ...