Importance of natural diamond comeback highlighted

Mining Weekly Audio Articles · Oct 5, 2026 · 6m

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South Africa needs to find ways to build and sustain its alluvial diamond sector in particular, given this country's "incredible" alluvial sector which hosts "exceptional" diamonds.

Accompanying these comments to Mining Weekly by diamond luminary Dr John Bristow was a picture of a 176 carat white diamond probably carried down the Orange River from Lesotho and…