Russia’s State Depository for Precious Metals is finalizing its portfolio of diamond purchases from Alrosa, but the volume of acquisitions in 2025 will not be very large, Deputy Finance Minister ...

Previously, reserves of the precious metal at the Gornoye and Irelakh placer deposits, owned by the Mirny-Nyurba MPP, were approved in the amount of 433 kg. Currently, associated gold mining is ...

In past few years, synthetic diamonds, also known as lab-grown diamonds (LGDs), have been the new flash in the pan. They have ...

Russian forces on Sunday attacked a coal mine in southeastern Ukraine and an unidentified energy site in the north near the Russian border, the operators of the sites said, adding to a series of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Wednesday that the U.S. will “impose costs” on Russia if there is “no path to peace in the short term” in Moscow’s war with Ukraine. “If there is no path to peace ...

An intelligence agency’s sweeping investigation shows that Moscow is closely following the anti-Kremlin activities of Russians abroad. By Nataliya Vasilyeva Russia’s main intelligence agency on ...

Russia is ready to test European borders and escalate the current tensions into an open confrontation at any moment, German intelligence head Martin Jaeger told German lawmakers on Oct. 13. "We can't ...

Diamond mining needs supply chain collaboration. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Botswana is seeking a greater interest in De Beers, and Angola is seeking an interest too. To the mind of diamond ...

More than three and a half years into the Russia-Ukraine war, Russia is pummeling Ukrainian cities from the air with ever more force while retaining an advantage on the battlefield in the east — ...

President Donald Trump said he is considering providing Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine to defend itself against Russia in their three-year-old war, a move the Kremlin has warned would increase tensions ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow expects to announce soon a new weapon that it has been developing and testing for its vast nuclear arsenal, the world's largest, and warned that an arms ...

Russian opposition faces increased repression since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, with most prominent figures in exile. Aleksei Navalny died in a Russian prison under suspicious circumstances; his ...