Rough Diamond News

Looking at the market over a five-year period removes the distortions created by the COVID-19 buying boom. During this period, 1-carat diamonds lost 47.5% of their value, compared with a decline of just 13.6% for 5-carat diamonds. The 1-carat price index includes round diamonds weighing 1.00 to 1.49 carats, in the D-K color range and IF to I1 clarities. The 5-carat category includes round diamonds weighing 5.00 to 5.99 carats, in the D-J color range and IF to SI2 clarities.

World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB), together with the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA), will convene in Singapore from 12 to 15 July 2026.

Reports from several diamond-producing countries indicate that small diamond miners have shifted from diamond to gold mining. Small alluvial mining operations are relatively easy to convert into gold mining, as most of the equipment is similar in both operations.

A sale of rough diamonds from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Antwerp today (18 June) broke a decades-old pattern which locked artisanal miners out of the international market. In what is billed as a world first, a small parcel of diamonds from ...

The sale of De Beers may be just weeks away, according to CEO Al Cook - ending more than two years of uncertainty for Anglo American's loss-making diamond company. Divestiture is "closer than it has ever been," he told the Reuters NEXT...