Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. reported yesterday that at its seventh sale of rough diamonds from the Gahcho Kué mine, it had sold 463,000 carats for proceeds totalling US$27.1 million.

The JNA Awards recently revealed the names of the winners across 10 categories of the 2017 edition at a gala event held in Hong Kong.

Dubai Multi Commodities Centre’s (DMCC’s) platform, the Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE), which is the organiser of the Dubai Diamond Conference 2017, has announced the keynote speakers and subjects to be discussed at conference. This will be the third edition of this biennial two-day event to be held on October 16-17.

The Botswana government is reportedly planning to amend local laws to enable it to have the first option to purchase what it called ‘unusual’ diamonds that are found within the country, according to local media reports.

Announcing its preliminary unaudited results for the Year ended 30 June 2017 (FY 2017 ), Petra Diamonds Limited reported an increase of revenue by 11% to US$ 477.0 million, as compared to a revenue of US$430.9 million recorded for FY 2016.