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Namibia
Diamond Fields keeps goals afloat with subsea diamonds

Mauritian businessman Jean-Raymond Boulle's Diamond Fields Resources is playing its cards right amid a Covid crisis-struck diamond industry by banking on an underwater diamond harvest. [...]

Published on 10/09/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Ex-BHP execs take on Tchitengo diamonds together

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Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Namibia
Diamond Fields keeps goals afloat with subsea diamonds

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Who is behind offshore diamond newcomer LK Mining?

Namibia
Danish art magnate offers Windhoek platform to bypass diamond middlemen

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Namibian former Robben Island inmates renew their interest in diamonds

Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Robert Griffis dives into gold as seabed mining projects flounder

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Next stop Finland - mining magnate Jean-Raymond Boulle goes for gold

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South African army stands by to go into Cabo Delgado

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Ex-BHP execs take on Tchitengo diamonds together

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Covid-19: Ethiopian Airlines cargo boss Fitsum Abadi dispatches Jack Ma's deliveries

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