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Junior Diamond Miner And Explorer KCM Makes A Sparkling Appearance
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 ...
Read More | Date 04/06/2008
Fleet Street DailyAre Real Diamonds History?
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 ...
Read More | Date 19/03/2008
Fleet Street DailyDiamonds Are Becoming A Good Story
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 ...
Read More | Date 01/02/2008
Fleet Street DailyGemstones Are Good For Your Skin
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 ...
Read More | Date 19/12/2007
Fleet Street DailyNamakwa Diamonds Aims To Raise $200m To Fund New Mines
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 ...
Read More | Date 17/12/2007
Fleet Street DailyBlood Rubies - One To Avoid This Christmas
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 ...
Read More | Date 10/12/2007
Fleet Street DailyGlobal Diamond Resources - A World Class Diamond Miner By 2012?
"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 ...
Read More | Date 26/11/2007
Fleet Street DailyWhy Diamonds Should Be Part Of Your Investment Portfolio
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 ...
Read More | Date 16/11/2007
Smart Commodities UKPaper Diamonds - For The Bankers Not The Girls
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 ...
Read More | Date 15/10/2007
Fleet Street DailyDiamond Production - African Junior Miners Are An Interesting Bet
Isabel’s other half works in the film industry designing and decorating sets for blockbusters. Now every industry has its own particular ‘lingo’. Isabel has learnt that if a film ‘looks good’ this doesn’t mean that it just has the right ambience. It also means ...
Read More | Date 03/10/2007
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