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BHP’s offer has been described as opportunistic but if that were the case, it would be because Anglo has provided that opportunity.

BHP’s $60b bid forces Anglo American to confront its own shortcomings

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.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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BHP Chairman Ken MacKenzie.

BHP’s clever plan for dealing with Anglo’s poison pills

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.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
A cut diamond in a quality control unit at the Antwerp World Diamond Centre in Antwerp, Belgium. G7 nations want to curb the import of Russian stones.

G7 countries want to ban Russian diamonds but it’s proving very hard

Four proposals have been prepared. At stake is the reputation of Antwerp and a jewellery market worth billions.

  • Julia Payne
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Meet the Australian shaking up the global diamond industry

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

  • Anne Hyland
QUT PhD researcher Carl Walsh, right, with Professor Balz Kamber and a sample of the type of rock used in their modelling.

Qld scientists unearth new theory on origin of diamonds

New modelling by Queensland researchers shows how diamonds are formed – and that they’re even rarer than thought.

  • Stuart Layt
Lab produced diamonds on show at Michael Hill in George Street. 10 March, 2023. Photo: Brook MitchellEmployees inspect and polish diamonds at a B. Virani & Co. workshop in Surat, Gujarat, India, on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fracturing a billion-dollar trade that spans the permafrost-laden diamond mines of Siberia, secretive trade houses in Antwerp, dusty polishing powerhouses in India and New York’s glittering designer jewelry stores. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg . Composite

Lab-grown diamonds are marketed as the ethical choice. Are they really?

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.

  • Amber Schultz
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De Beers is the world’s no.1 diamond miner but

The race to find the world’s biggest diamonds faces a shake-up

A push to change the way that diamonds are sold is threatening the industry’s biggest company.

  • Antony Sguazzin
The Argyle Violet is on display at the Melbourne Museum from Saturday.

‘If you have to ask, you can’t afford it’: Rare pink diamond on display at Melbourne Museum

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.

  • Cara Waters
Patrick Coppens, general manager of sales and marketing at Rio Tinto Diamonds, with a rare Argyle pink diamond ring worth $6 million.

Rio Tinto’s best friend: Argyle pink diamond ring to fetch $6 million

The mining giant is slowly releasing a small inventory of rare and valuable diamonds from the famed Argyle mine it closed in 2020.

  • Angus Thomson
Jasmine Vella-Arpaci leaves court in 2019.

International fraud syndicate turned Australians’ super into diamonds and crypto

A 24-year-old Melbourne woman has pleaded guilty to her role in an international fraud syndicate, which stole millions of dollars from superannuation funds and stock portfolios and laundered the proceeds with the purchase of diamonds.

  • Erin Pearson

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