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Dlisted (Free subscription) | yesterday
When Kobe Bryant was accused of touching parts not belonging to Vanessa Bryant , he immediately apologized to his wife by making her finger sparkle like she just gave RPattz a prostate exam. It's the only type of apology a true gold digger will accept. So it's no surprise that Tiger Woods knows he needs to go diamond mining if he wants his wife Elin Nordegren to forgive his possibly cheating ass....
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
TORONTO, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Harry Winston Diamond Corporation (TSX: HW, NYSE: HWD) (the "Company"), will release its Fiscal 2010 Third Quarter results for the quarter ended October 31, 2009, during market hours on Wednesday, December 9, 2009.
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Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Zimbabwe has started withdrawing soldiers from diamond fields in the east of the country after recommendations by the Kimberly Process and criticism over rights abuses, state media reported today. The government deployed soldiers at the poorly secured diamond fields in Marange last year to seal off the area and clamp down on illegal mining, but rights activists say this resulted in serious rights abuses...
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wei12 | 11/17/2009
Congolese diamond miners who have been expelled from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> Angola say they were subjected to horrifying abuses by security forces. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says people being treated at their centres
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Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The Globe and Mail 's Geoffrey York reports on anti-Bushman racism in Botswana. It began as a casual quip at a border post. A woman spotted a portrait of Botswana's President and remarked that he “looks like a Bushman.” Security officers sprang into action. The woman was detained, interrogated at a police station, kept in custody for a night and a day and forced to pay a fine before being...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
SOUTH African scrap metal company, New Reclamation Group Limited, owned by Old Mutual Plc, is seeking to form a joint venture in Zimbabwe to mine diamonds in Marange.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
VANCOUVER, BC (MARKET WIRE) North American Gem Inc. (NAG) (TSX-V: NAG) is pleased to announce an agreement with Durabo Drilling of Corbin, Kentucky for the drilling of the leases recently acquired from Lonesome Pine Leasing known as the North American Gem Mining Permit #3 and the North American Gem Mining Permit #4. The permitting process is currently underway for both North American Gem Mining Permit...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
[JURIST] Human rights abuses in Zimbabwe's diamond mining industry were on the agenda Monday at the annual meeting of the Kimberley Process (KP), the global organization dedicated to suppressing trade in so-called "conflict diamonds." The objective of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is to curtail trade in conflict diamonds, or rough diamonds used by insurgencies to finance...
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The Reaction (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
By Capt. Fogg Pat Robertson -- where do I begin? I don't know whether his record speaks worse of American stupidity or of his character. No, I'm not talking about the soliciting of funds for relief in Rwanda that actually were spent on Diamond mining operations in Zaire with dictator President Mobutu Sese Seko and to benefit other African genocidal madmen. I'm not talking about questionable use of...
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Madhya Pradesh government has accorded a prospecting licence for diamond mining to an exploration and production subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A leading South African investigative television series has revealed that a business firm in that country is involved in illegal diamond mining at Zimbabwe's Chiadzwa diamond fields.
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The Israeli Diamond Industry (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Canada is the youngest player in the world of diamond mining. In the last decade, Canada's diamond production gained from scratch to becoming the third largest in the world, with only 4 mines: Ekati, Diavik, Snap Lake and Victor, who just won the title "the mine of the year". The Canadian production has reached 10% of the global supply in means of carat and 14% in terms of American dollars....
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
John Rudd was born to a dynastic connection with De Beers, the South African diamond mining giant founded by Cecil Rhodes and C.D. Rudd, John's great-grandfather. His father, Bevil Rudd, had not followed C.D. Rudd's son into De Beers but had achieved fame by winning a gold medal at the 1920 Olympics and breaking the 400 metres world record a year later. Born in Kimberley, where the family home is...
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Sarkari Naukri-Govt, Bank ,Psu Jobs (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
NMDC Limited Diamond Mining Project, Majhgawan, Panna 488101 Notification No. DMP/PER/2009/01 NMDC Limited requires for its Diamond Mining Project situated in the Panna district of Madhya Pradesh, suitable candidates having intense drive for excellence with high level of motivation and commitment. The appointments will be on contract basis, initially for a period of Five years. Job Details 1. Junior...
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The Israeli Diamond Industry (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
In April 2008 a shipwreck was discovered at the beach of Sperrgebiet. A geologist working for De Beers , which owns the diamond mining operation in the area, found a copper ingot lying in the sand. The ingot was embedded with a trident-shaped mark, which was eventually recognized as the hallmark of Anton Fugger, one of Renaissance Europe's wealthiest financiers. The archaeologists who arrived at the...
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wei12 | 11/17/2009
Congolese diamond miners who have been expelled from Angola say they were subjected to horrifying abuses by security forces. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says people being treated at their centres in Kamonia, southwest DR Congo were tortured...