{"id":719,"date":"2026-06-08T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/?p=719"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:51:33","slug":"rough-diamond-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/2026\/06\/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=51275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Milestone Tender Opens Market to DRC Miners<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 18 June 2026 at 2:00 pm <\/small><p>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 ...<\/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=51272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">De Beers Sale could be \"Weeks Away\" says CEO<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 17 June 2026 at 12:00 pm <\/small><p>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...<\/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=51271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Union Condemns Petra's Mine Suspension and Jobs Threat<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 16 June 2026 at 12:00 pm <\/small><p>South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has condemned Petra over its decision to put its Finsch mine into business rescue, and to issue a jobs warning for its other deposit, at Cullinan.    The union says a total of 1,779 jobs are at risk...<\/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=51265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Business Rescue Plan for Finsch Mine<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 11 June 2026 at 3:00 pm <\/small><p>Petra Diamonds says business rescue practitioners (BRPs) will now see if they can find a way to save the Finsch mine, in South Africa.    They've taken custodianship of the beleaguered mine and will draw up a revised business plan that must be approved ...<\/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=51256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">De Beers: Botswana Seeks Gulf Help to Buy Reduced Stake<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 8 June 2026 at 5:00 am <\/small><p>Botswana is reportedly seeking financial help from UAE and Oman to buy a reduced stake in De Beers.    It had been aiming for overall control of the loss-making miner, but has scaled back its ambitions amid the worst downturn in the diamond industry's...<\/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}]}}