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De Beers Canada has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the outstanding securities of Peregrine Diamonds, owner of the high quality Chidliak diamond resource located in Canada’s Nunavut Territory. The Chidliak resource was discovered in 2008 and is located approximately 120 kilometres northeast of Iqaluit on …

De Beers has announced that rough diamond production for the second quarter of the year, increased three per cent to 9.0 million carats, reflecting production increases to meet stronger demand as well as the contribution from the ramp-up at Gahcho Kué. In Botswana, the group’s company Debswana’s production increased six …

I recently attended and presented at the World Bank ‘Gender and Oil, Gas and Mining (OGM): New Frontiers of Progress, Challenges and Solutions’ conference. Surprisingly, given the OGM industry has one of the lowest representations of women (around 10 per cent), this was the first conference of its type ever …