Diamonds Snapshot: Eight Canadian companies ready for discovery
After a difficult 2020 that saw a near shutdown of the diamond market for half the year as a result of pandemic-related travel restrictions, diamond…
Lucara Diamond Corp
Lucara Diamond to borrow for Karowe underground expansion
Lucara Diamond Corp. (TSX:LUC) anticipates incurring debt of between US$150 million and US$200 million towards the US$514-million underground expansion of the Karowe diamond mine in…
Botswana extends Lucara’s licence for Karowe to 2046
Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) said Botswana has renewed the company’s mining licence for its Karowe mine for another 25 years, paving the way to fully move…
Diamond market shows signs of revival
After being virtually shut down since March, the diamond market has slowly come back to life. This fall, De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer…
Lucara Diamond ends second quarter with $14M loss
Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) saw revenues fall 82% in the three months to June 30 from the same period last year after it decided to…
Dominion Diamond sues partner in Diavik mine
Dominion Diamond Mines is suing DDMI, its associate in the iconic Diavik mine and a subsidiary of Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO), for alleged…
Lucara’s digital sales platform poised for growth during Covid-19
Since its first sale through its Clara sales platform in late 2018, Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) has sold US$12.1 million worth of diamonds using the…
Alrosa’s anemic April sales underscore market distress
Russia’s Alrosa, the world’s top diamond producer by output, saw sales for rough and polished diamonds fall to US$15.6 million in April, as the coronavirus…
Lucara recovers 549 carat white diamond
Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) has recovered a 549 carat diamond from its Karowe mine in Botswana. The mine — one of the world’s most prolific…
Lucara Diamond’s sales beat expectations
Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) is the latest miner to inject some optimism into a depressed market that was hit this year by an unforeseen oversupply…
Karowe delivers blue and pink stones
Exceptional diamonds are nothing new for Lucara Diamond’s (TSX: LUC) Karowe mine in Botswana, but this fall has seen the miner unearth coloured gems as…
Editorial: Diamond sector battles crisis fatigue
They say it’s darkest before the dawn. Let’s hope that holds true for the diamond sector. We try to strike a hopeful note here at…