2021 March

The Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) is offering a venture capital partnership to bidders willing to set up a diamond processing company. MMCZ plans to invest in a company that offers a return on investment within five years, according to a notice. Bids close on April 13. “In line with the Corporation’s strategic initiatives

As the diamond industry begins to get back on its feet and look to a post-pandemic world, an internal issue is on the agenda that is threatening to boil over and requires urgent attention. In the 1980s and 1990s it was plagued by the bad press that came with the conflict or blood diamond furore.

Antwerp figures, released by the AWDC, indicate the trade in rough diamonds continues to boost recovery from the pandemic year, as rough trade even surpassed the February figures of 2020. January and February 2020 were the last months before the global outbreak of the COVID crisis, now exactly one year ago, when strong performances were

ZCDC staff and Chief Marange.  A monitoring visit was conducted at Chiefs  Marange and Zimunya’s homesteads and Chiadzwa families who received agricultural inputs from ZCDC.    THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company  (Pvt) Ltd. (ZCDC) has upped the ante to improve food security in the Marange and Arda-Transau communities by providing agricultural equipment and inputs. Recently,

Zimbabwe’s diamond sector is poised to “shine brighter” on the back of private capital coming on board to augment State operations. With President Mnangagwa’s Zimbabwe’s open for business mantra, which seeks to draw private capital into the economy, private players are coming on board to lead what looks set to be a diamond revolution in

Alrosa’s 242-carat diamond (Source: Alrosa) A Diamond the size of a ping-pong ball is about to sell for millions  Miner Alrosa to put 242-carat stone up for sale this month  The biggest gems have fared best as sector starts to recover Russian diamond giant Alrosa PJSC is putting one of its biggest-ever gem-quality stones up for