{"id":719,"date":"2026-04-08T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/?p=719"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:17:06","slug":"rough-diamond-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/2026\/04\/08\/rough-diamond-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Diamond News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"feedzy-de98308d8f6ec9c412409c6f39924687 feedzy-rss\"><div class=\"rss_header\"><h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/RSS\/Rough_Market.rss\" class=\"rss_title\" rel=\"noopener\">IDEX Online - Rough Market<\/a> <span class=\"rss_description\"> Rough Market<\/span><\/h2><\/div><ul><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Pope Blasts \"Extractivism\" on Visit to Diamond-Rich Angola<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 21 April 2026 at 5:00 am <\/small><p>Pope Leo XIV addressed exploitation and social injustice in Angola's diamond-rich areas on Monday (20 April) during a 10-day tour of four African countries.    He spoke of the damage done by \"extractivism\" - a clear reference to the country's oil and diamond...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Angola Bets on Volume over Price<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 16 April 2026 at 10:00 am <\/small><p>Angola ramped up both production and export of rough diamonds in 2025 as part of an aggressive high-volume, low-price policy.    Foreign sales surged about 70%, rising to roughly 17 million carats, according to new government figures, but the gross value...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Alrosa Announces Plans to Increase Production<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 9 April 2026 at 10:00 am <\/small><p>Alrosa says it plans to expand diamond production through Severalmaz, the subsidiary that accounts for around 10% of its output.    The sanctioned Russian miner says Severalmaz's production for 2024 and 2025 at its Lomonosov deposit remained constant, at ...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">\"1,500 New Offices to Open at Surat Bourse\"<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 7 April 2026 at 9:00 am <\/small><p>Surat's near-empty diamond bourse is set for influx of traders, according to an official for the state government of Gujurat.    Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) - officially the world's largest office complex - was opened by India's Prime Minister Narendra ...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Huge Blue Diamond Helps Drive Surge in Petra Sales<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 5 April 2026 at 9:00 am <\/small><p>Petra reported a 64% surge in sales for Q3 2026, driven largely by larger, higher\u00e2\u20ac\u2018value parcels from its Cullinan mine, in South Africa, and by the sale of a 41.82 carat Type IIb blue diamond (pictured) that was recovered there last December....<\/p><\/div><\/li><\/ul> <\/div><style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\">.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{float:left;position:relative;border:none;text-decoration:none;max-width:100%}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image span{display:inline-block;position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;background-position:50%;background-size:cover}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{margin:.3em 1em 0 0;content-visibility:auto}.feedzy-rss ul{list-style:none}.feedzy-rss ul li{display:inline-block}<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[85,64,88,86,87],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-rough","tag-rough-diamond","tag-rough-diamond-news","tag-rough-diamonds","tag-rough-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}