Most of the gemstone miners of Sri Lanka are forced to pull out of their mining jobs. According to a recent report by the Sunday Times of Sri Lanka the miners cited numerous reasons for pulling out of the industry, top on the list was the endless bureaucratic red tape and the global economic downturn. […]
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MineCore International in a recent press release has discussed the non gemstone sapphire market and mining. Sapphire (corundum) is aluminum oxide (Al2O3) . Lower grade sapphires which cannot be used as gemstones can be melted to produce wafers with purity greater than 99.9999%. These wafers can be supplied to the semiconductor and solar industries thereby […]
Louis Selekane, the chief executive officer of the South Africa Diamond Regulator died in a car crash in Diepsloot , near Johannesburg on Saturday. According to The Times (South Africa) ,Netcare 911 spokesman Mark Stokoe said that he was on his way back to Diepsloot from Midrand in a large Volkswagen Audi when the accident […]
Rio Tinto, the owner of Argyle diamond mine is to cut 121 jobs at the mine located in the Kimberly region of Western Australia. The 121 workers include 87 company employees and 34 contractors. Mr Kevin McLeish the chief operating officer of the company states that” the new job cuts are to do with their […]
Petra diamonds a London based company has suspended the Kono project in Sierra Leone, due to the fall in diamond prices. The mining region is the Kono district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. The Kono project is a trial mining project, a joint venture with Stellar Diamonds Ltd. Funding for the project is […]
Licenced gem mine owners and mining technicians had the opportunity of listening to and interacting with an eminent personality – Dr Jurgen Weyer , Mining engineer of the Institute of Mining Engineering and Special Civil Engineering , Frelberg, Germany at the ‘NGJA’ Auditorium- Ratnapura on 11th August 2008 . This is part of the service […]
By Neelamanee De Silva (Consultant Gemmologist) Reproduced with kind permission from the National Gem and Jewellery Authority A miner at Opanayake has told his friends at a funeral that he had witnessed some people collecting gunny bags full of some stones which appeared to be greenish blue glass (Ground glass) from a recently excavated quartz […]
By Neelamanee De Silva (Consultant Gemmologist) Reproduced with kind permission from the National Gem and Jewellery Authority A miner at Opanayake has told his friends at a funeral that he had witnessed some people collecting gunny bags full of some stones which appeared to be greenish blue glass (Ground glass) from a recently excavated quartz […]