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 ...
Rio Tinto4 天
Rio Tinto discovers exceptional yellow diamond from its Diavik Diamond Mine
YELLOWKNIFE, Canada -- Rio Tinto has unearthed one of the largest gem-quality yellow diamonds ever discovered in Canada, from ...
'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. — ...
NNSL Media4 天
Diavik yields monster yellow diamond
In the mine's 22-year history, only five yellow diamonds weighing more than 100 carats have been unearthed. Yellow diamonds ...
MoneyWeek6 年
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 ...
Mining Weekly3 天
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 ...