Mining major Rio Tinto has achieved an outstanding result at its first Beyond Rare™ Tender: The Art Series, a new sale format for its diamonds business. The tender featured a collection of 87 rare coloured diamonds, including pink and red diamonds from the Argyle Diamond Mine in Australia and yellow diamonds from the Diavik Diamond […]

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Mining major Rio Tinto is marking the 20th anniversary of its Diavik diamond mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories. The mine, which was discovered during a mineral prospecting rush in the 1990s, has since produced over 140 million carats of rough diamonds through a combination of surface and underground mining. The majority of the diamonds mined […]

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