Israel’s Third International Rough Diamond Conference, to be held on February 11 - 12, 2008 at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Tel Aviv, will feature official delegations from most African diamond producing countries. This is in keeping with the Israel Diamond Institute’s (IDI) declared goal of intensifying relations between The Israeli Diamond Industry and African [...]

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 A new mining safety record has been set by De Beers Finsch diamond mine, a mine that is the feature of an Operations Focus article in the January 2008 issue of International Mining.

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Diamond prices are expected to hit new highs over the next 12 months as the great divide between supply and demand widens. Prices would increase by up to 10% over the next year as the industry attempted to “balance the market”, according to respected international diamond expert, South African-based James Allan, Principal of Allan Hochreiter [...]

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The baby boomer generation in the US is driving global demand for diamonds and the same thrust is expected to spread to other parts of the world, according to a leading industry expert.

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