The 60-year-old man said the ring was for his fiancee when customs officers found it in his backpack.
Whether successful or not,the Australian mining giant’s offer puts pressure on Anglo’s board and management to consider significant changes to its business.
BHP has approached the embattled Anglo American mining house with an all-scrip offer that would see the group’s most troublesome assets spun off.
Four proposals have been prepared. At stake is the reputation of Antwerp and a jewellery market worth billions.
In the past two decades,mining executive Michael O’Keeffe has built coal and iron ore companies from almost nothing into multibillion-dollar companies. Now he’s taken a shine to diamonds
New modelling by Queensland researchers shows how diamonds are formed – and that they’re even rarer than thought.
They’re marketed as “sustainable”,“eco-friendly” and the “ethical alternative” to mined diamonds. But few really know how their lab-grown diamond was made.
A push to change the way that diamonds are sold is threatening the industry’s biggest company.
The 2.83-carat Argyle Violet is the centrepiece of an exhibition of pink diamonds from WA’s Argyle mine showing at the Melbourne Museum until January 2023.
The mining giant is slowly releasing a small inventory of rare and valuable diamonds from the famed Argyle mine it closed in 2020.