Sentences with phrase «diavik diamond mine»

As the Financial Times (whose writer also testified) reported, a diamond - registration blockchain exec noted that the system was «garbage in, garbage out,» and a researcher designing blockchain - based voting systems said the technology would only be useful for recording final results, rather than validating individual votes.

The delicate diamond and pearl teardrop earrings really brought her look together.

«Prison is so ingrained in our society,» says Buari, who wears a black fedora and diamond studs in his ears, «that it will never go out of business.»

In addition to the contributions he made on the baseball diamond, Robinson's words had a major impact.

It's also rumored that other items such as diamonds, art, and food could be put on blockchain so the entire history of the items could be traced.

The printer company unveiled a new logo that features a camera aperture and a nod to the past with its trademark diamond in the middle.

Western Australian - based Golden Saint Resources is venturing to London to drum up capital to develop its diamonds assets in West Africa.

The U.S. says the money it is seeking to recover was gambled in Las Vegas, used to buy hotels, apartments, a luxury yacht, a jet, diamond jewelry and art works and to finance Hollywood films including the «Wolf of Wall Street» and «Dumb and Dumber To.»

«Baseball games are uniquely engaging community experiences, as the chatter and rituals in the stands are often as meaningful to fans as the action on the diamond,» Dan Reed, Facebook's head of global sports partnerships, said in a statement.

The piece also features an eye - catching diamond clasp that really makes it stand out.

«In that sort of environment, I think the retailers will have to become more competitive in terms of the prices they pay for diamonds and, as a consequence, maybe concentrating on the production and the mining end of the spectrum makes more sense.»

The project, announced Thursday, is known as TrustChain and involves precious metal suppliers, refiners and manufacturers working with the U.S. retail jeweler Helzberg Diamonds.

(slight variation): 2 of Diamonds is a 2 and a D. 2 = 2, D = 4.

His career took him all over the North (including Greenland, where he did mineral exploration work), before he assumed the CEO position at the five - year - old diamond company Aber in 1999.

Ekati, the area's first significant mine, began production in 1998, spurring an influx of activity that would see diamonds go from a zero - dollar industry to one that represented 20 % of the territorial economy by 2002.

It was a brash move for an exploration and production firm to tack on a high - end jewel retail arm, but it made perfect sense to the pragmatic Gannicott, who liked the efficiencies of operating in what he described then as «the two bookends of the diamond pipeline: mining and retail,» and who also saw the brand's prestige as having great potential in such emerging luxury markets as China.

News of Lucara's discovery of the Lesedi La Rona diamond (it was named in a national contest held in Botswana and translates into «our light» in the Tswana language) has helped invigorate a mining category that has languished in the wake of a global recession, not to mention a campaign by Blood Diamond star Leonardo DiCaprio to promote synthetic alternatives to alleviate working conditions of miners in Africa.

But you'd think all was forgotten in the euphoria following the cleaning and polishing of the second - largest diamond ever discovered, one that boasts an exceptional rating for clarity and quality.

Diamonds represent beauty, luxury, and true love — though some of them have a dark side.

Today, she is co-founder of Eterneva, a startup that creates diamonds from cremated remains.

Currently, Helzberg and its partners (precious metals supplier LeachGarner, jewelry manufacturer The Richline Group and third party verification service UL) are working to show that blockchain tracking is viable for six types of diamond rings.

Aber (and other players) seized the opportunity to start selling diamonds directly to retailers too, grabbing some of the market share that had previously seemed unattainable.

Dominion Diamonds» two active mines helped the company earn $ 498 million in profits last year — and should still be producing glittering stuff for years to come, according to Gannicott.

«We looked at options to diversify our sales strategy, targeting non-diamond professionals marketing rough diamonds as a rare store of wealth,» Lamb says.

Diamonds are symbols of permanence.

Canada's newer mines, such as De Beers» Snap Lake, or those in development (like Gahcho Kué, a joint venture between De Beers and Mountain Province Diamonds currently in environmental assessment) aren't large enough to fill the void.

Once a rough diamond is formed, it's sent to one of several cutters the startup works with in Antwerp.

By the early 2000s, Canada had become the world's third - largest diamond - producing nation, behind Botswana and Russia.

All was good for decades, as the tradition of buying diamond engagement and wedding rings took off just after the Second World War, when newly employed GIs were told «A Diamond Is Forever» in a clever marketing campaign by South African miner De Beers.

If the Jay approval comes through — and O'Keefe is one of several analysts who believe it will — it would extend Ekati's life by another 10 years and firm up Dominion's consolidation of an area that has some of the richest and highest - value diamond deposits in the world.

Archer says Eterneva's personalized process gives it a competitive advantage: The startup is in touch with clients at least once a month with texts, photos, or videos until the diamond is ready.

Globally, diamonds comprise a relatively small part of BHP's and Rio's overall activities.

Rare pink diamonds from the Kimberley are emerging as new class of investment asset.The diamonds, which are only produced at Rio Tinto's Argyle mine, have typically been used for exclusive, high - end j

The diamond market has had a tumultuous run of late.

The government of Singapore, for instance, is focusing on much larger initiatives than diamonds: global trade.

So She Started a Company That Turns Ashes Into $ 7,000 Diamonds

Although the N.W.T. has other kinds of mining projects currently under development, he suspects the diamond industry's best years have passed.

Lucara's original investors also included Eira Thomas, perhaps Canada's most famous female geologist and a renowned diamond hunter.

The upside from the sale of Lesedi La Rona diamond may already be priced into the stock, however.

The diamonds come in a traditional colorless design, as well as red, blue, green, pink, yellow, and black.

If Rio Tinto decides to opt out of diamond mining, it may choose to sell all of its assets together, but it's possible that the Diavik stake could be sold separately, with Dominion considered a likely bidder.

That's the day when Lucara's monster rough diamond — 1,109 carats and «roughly the size of an avocado» — is going up for auction by Sotheby's International Jewellery Division in London, England.

For example, I made Kim Kardashian the Queen of Diamonds, but I'm neutral on all things Kardashian: Don't dislike them, don't like them, basically have no feelings either way.

A London - based company called Everledger has placed more than 1.6 million diamonds on a blockchain.

Some customers have had their pets» ashes turned into diamonds, while others have created engagement rings from locks of hair.

Thanks to recent efforts to consolidate its mining operations in the Northwest Territories and some savvy decisions on Gannicott's part, the Toronto - headquartered diamond producer is quickly becoming Canada's answer to Luxembourg - based De Beers.

Unscrupulous companies mine «blood diamonds,» and counterfeiters flood the market with convincing fakes.

In an interview with industry expert Martin Rapaport, Bennett said, «When we see a big rough diamond come onto the market, we follow it.

«I knew we could source diamonds for the chain in a very efficient way, and the knowledge we'd be able to gain would be very useful in selling rough diamonds we were producing in our mines.»

Also, for Ace of Diamonds I made it... me.