Tag: Diamond Industry
BRICS+ countries launches a dialog platform on the diamond industry, the Russian Finance Ministry said
“Within the framework of the Russian BRICS Presidency, the inaugural meeting of the informal dialogue platform on cooperation in the diamond industry was held in Moscow on October 9 in a hybrid format on the sidelines of the meeting of BRICS finance ministers and central bank governors,” the ministry said in a statement after the…
Botswana aims to negotiate bigger stake in HB Antwerp diamond dealer
Botswana intends to renegotiate its proposed purchase of a stake in Belgian gem dealer HB Antwerp to double the size of its shareholding at no extra cost following the downturn in the diamond market, the country’s mines minister said on Tuesday. Botswana is the world’s biggest diamond producer by value, meaning its economy has been…
IMF slashes Botswana’s 2024 growth forecast amid diamond market woes
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed Botswana’s 2024 growth forecast to 1% from an earlier April estimate of 3.6% due mainly to lower diamond production, it said in a statement. The budget deficit is also expected to widen to 6% from 3.45% due to a fall in mineral revenues, the IMF said, urging the…
De Beers ditches lab-grown diamonds as it looks beyond Anglo
De Beers will ditch a controversial experiment to sell lab grown diamond jewelry, ending a six-year program that broke one of its oldest taboos. While the company long held the technology to make synthetic gems, it always refused to sell them as jewelry, fearing they would undercut the allure of natural stones. Yet as man-made…
Botswana GDP shrinks most since 2020 as diamond output plunges
Botswana’s economy contracted by the most since the peak of the pandemic in early 2020, after diamond production plunged. Gross domestic product shrank an annual 5.3% in the first quarter, compared with growth of 1.9% in the prior three months. The downturn was primarily influenced by a decrease in real value added of the diamond…
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