In October 2025, Oriel College, Oxford is hosting an exhibition dedicated to Cecil Rhodes, a prominent British politician and businessman, founder of the De Beers Corporation. The location was not ...

The state of the market in 2025 is exhaustively illustrated by the graph of the IDEX integral diamond index: In 2025, the index fell by 11.3%, which is slightly better than the results for 2024, when ...

The history of the diamond market during WWII attracts the attention of not only academic researchers but also many industry experts today. The reasons are clear: historical parallels between the ...

In 1982, the enfant terrible of diamond journalism, Edward Jay Epstein, published the now-famous book «The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion», which contained the ...

Reuters reports that Anglo American (AAL.L) is considering the possibility of conducting an IPO for De Beers with a listing in London. Anglo owns 85% of De Beers' shares, with 15% owned by the ...

At the end of July 2025, Anglo American PLC (LON: AAL) disappointed its shareholders by cutting its interim dividend by 80%, from $0.42 to $0.07. The reason for this decision, according to the company ...

The main intrigue in the diamond industry is undoubtedly Anglo American PLC's attempt to divest itself of De Beers by the end of this year. Possible deal options and their impact on the further ...

In November 2025, the Kimberley Process (KP) held its regular plenary meeting in Dubai, UAE. The official KP press release pinned on this event with bright hopes: «it will play a vital role in shaping ...

So, the G7 countries and the European Union have taken a very specific stance towards Russian natural diamonds, diamond gems, and LGD (lab-grown diamonds). The position is extremely radical and ...

In 1911, an architect from Kyiv, Vladislav Gorodetsky, together with his two fellows - members of the Kyiv Department of the Imperial Society of Proper Hunting, traveled to the British East African ...

Over the last fifteen years, the role of certification in gemstones has become increasingly important in ensuring that consumers have confidence in what they are buying. The result is that the sector ...

At the end of 2023, De Beers reduced diamond raw material sales by 40% to $3.6 billion, compared to $6 billion in 2022. Total revenue for the year decreased by 35% to $4.3 billion. In physical terms, ...