Diamonds
Opinion
Mergers & acquisitions
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.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Opinion
Company mergers
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.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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.
- by Julia Payne
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Mining
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
- by Anne Hyland
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.
- by Stuart Layt
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.
- by Amber Schultz
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.
- by Antony Sguazzin
‘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.
- by Cara Waters
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.
- by Angus Thomson
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.
- by Erin Pearson
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Angola
Largest pink diamond in 300 years discovered in Angola
The 170-carat pink diamond is believed to be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years.
- by Nqobile Ntshangase
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