Diamant: le Botswana envoie un message à De B...

Après une année difficile pour la filière cajou, le gouvernement sénégalais annonce une série de mesures pour encourager la transformation de l'anacarde, éviter que toute la production ne parte à l'export et ainsi donner une chance à la filière de croître. Explications. Les défen ...  Show more

Les restrictions chinoises à l'exportation de plusieurs terres rares, des minerais indispensables aux véhicules électriques, à l'électronique de pointe, ou encore aux aimants, ont fait grimper les actions de plusieurs compagnies minières australiennes qui comptent bien profiter d ...  Show more

It’s 1914 and De Beers’s monopoly is under threat. Diamonds have been discovered on the desolate coast of the German colony of South West Africa.So it hired an ambitious diamond expert named Ernest Oppenheimer and gave him his orders: head to the beach and assess the threat.But t ...  Show more

It’s the 2000s and the diamond cartel is dead. Now, De Beers must adjust to its new status as the market leader rather than the monopoly. But the threats to its business aren’t going away. Diamonds are losing their luster with the young, and Zimbabwe’s undermining the industry’s ...  Show more

It’s 1966 and De Beers is about to abandon its eleven-year search for diamonds in Botswana. But the geologist behind the search is far from ready to pack up his tools.And De Beers isn’t the only one searching for gemstones. Soon, a major diamond find in Australia will leave the d ...  Show more

A few years ago you could have assumed all diamonds had been dug out of the ground – but now it’s true that some of them have been created, at unbelievably high temperatures, in just a matter of weeks. In the first of two Business Daily programmes about the evolving diamond marke ...  Show more