
Financial crises are never fair. The good get hurt along with the bad. The strong are punished with the weak. In tough times banks are desperate to restore their balance sheets. They know they can only recover money from those that have it. There is no point ...
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For most South African miners it was a time of darkness.
But on the day that Statistics SA released truly dismal 2008 first quarter figures, a stunning debutant proved the mining sector is not all gloom. Kimberley Consolidated Mining (KCM), a junior diamond ...
Seems sort of disloyal to say so, but the tiny ring on show at the American Physical Society looks wonderful! A mere 300 nanometres thick — a twentieth of the thickness of human hair — and five microns across, it is not going to go on anyone’s finger. So why ...
Note to self — check insurance on the rings. And remind Isabel to do the same. Diamond prices are moving up with the rest of the minerals. Not quite as spectacularly as gold, but they are in there! Yet another haven from inflation and recession fears as the ...
Couldn’t get on the phone to Isabel quick enough. The budget might not stretch as far as a string of sparklers for Christmas but tucked into weekend newspaper was a story on a very acceptable substitute. Semi-precious gemstones in an irresistible form, at the ...
Last night my brother held a party to celebrate my arrival in Johannesburg. After a few bottles of the finest South African bubbly the conversation turned to markets, and inevitably mining. Perhaps I’ve already mentioned that my brother is a director for a big ...
They are the colour of love and a symbol of passion. With the exception of diamonds, they are harder and hence more durable than all other gemstones. And get this! They are rarer and more valuable than top quality colourless diamonds.
According to one report ...
"The most beautiful country I’ve ever visited," is how Isabel’s other half described Lesotho on a visit there a few years ago. Landlocked by South Africa, the kingdom of Lesotho, is most certainly very beautiful. But beauty is not the only attribute of this ...
At the start of November, members of the Kimberley Process (KP) met in Brussels for its fifth annual meeting. The KP was set up for just one thing, to try and eradicate the trade in blood diamonds, which had funded so much warfare and atrocities in places such ...
What would any self-respecting female do if offered a diamond on paper? Just a certificate!? Well, I ask you! No wonder the plans to start a diamond futures market are taking so long to get off the ground!
Since 1982, US diamond trader Martin Rapaport has been ...
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