The largest diamond mining company currently is Anglo-American, a multinational mining corporation with its headquarters in London, which oversees its worldwide operations.
The most expensive diamond in the world is owned by the British Royal Crown. The Kohinoor gem currently resides at the HM Tower of London where it is displayed as the central diamond of the Queen Mother's Crown.
De Beers plc is the holding company of The De Beers Group of Companies. It is involved in many parts of the diamond value chain, from mining to sales, and is made up of a series of joint ventures and wholly owned operations.
Russia and the Botswana hold the world's largest diamond reserves, totaling 600 million carats and 300 million carats, respectively, as of 2022.
Jubilee is the largest diamond mine in the world and is located in Sakha (Yakutia) in the Republic of Russia. The mine contains an open-pit mine and is owned and operated by a division of Russia's state-owned diamond company, Alrosa.
The most valuable diamond in the world is Koh-i-Noor, also spelled Koh-i-Nur and Kohinoor. The diamond is also called the Mountain of Light diamond, and it's known as one of the largest cut diamonds, weighing a whopping 105.6 carats. Koh-i-Noor is a colorless diamond and features an oval brilliant cut.
The Jwaneng diamond mine is the richest diamond mine in the world and is located in south-central Botswana about 120 kilometers (75 mi) west of the city of Gaborone, in the Naledi river valley of the Kalahari.
Red diamonds are the rarest of the colored diamonds, with only 20-30 existing in the entire world. They get their beautiful red color from a rare process during their formation, which changes the crystal structure of the diamond and causes light to pass through it differently than colorless diamonds.
Worldwide reserves are estimated to be some 1.2 billion carats. Russia has the largest reserves, estimated at some 650 million carats.
Learn about five of the country's most unique gems. There are three famed diamond mines in Australia: Argyle, Ellendale and Merlin. Combined, the mines have supplied millions of carats worth of gems to the global market, and individually they have produced some of the rarest, most exquisite stones ever recovered.
New York--The Oppenheimer family and diamantaire Laurence Graff still rank among the world's richest while the founder of Firestar Diamond is a “new billionaire,” according to Forbes' annual list of the world's wealthiest people, which was released this week.
Not content with coining the squeakiest tune of 2005, (Lonely, so lonely) formerly locked down R&B sensation Akon is also the proud owner of a diamond mine in South Africa.
A Diamond is Forever – De Beers Group.
The Golden Jubilee is currently, the undisputed largest faceted diamond in the world, It is approximately 545.67 carats and took several years to cut and polish before being presented to the King of Thailand, its current owner in 1997.
There are many gems that are more valuable than diamonds. Emeralds, sapphires, rubies, garnets, and alexandrite, just to name a few.
Diamonds only exist in small quantities on earth and take billions of years to form. At the present rate of mining, this resource will eventually run out.
Diamond reserves have been stable in recent years at 2.3 billion carats, a sufficient level to sustain current annual production for the next 18 years. New pipeline and expansion projects along with currently operating facilities will generate around 172.3 million carats in 2025.
Those diamonds landed off the coast of what is now Namibia, creating the world's richest marine-diamond deposit. The country's territorial waters are now estimated to hold 80 million carats, and the world's biggest diamond miner, De Beers, has quietly built up an armada off the coast to vacuum up those precious gems.
Although most black diamonds on the market today are either superheated or irradiated to an almost black color, natural black diamonds do exist, though they are extremely rare. Carbonados, sometimes called "black diamonds," are a distinct and unusual polycrystalline diamond material.
Known by awed gemologists simply as “the Blue,” the world's biggest blue diamond first vanished in a jewel heist during the turmoil of revolutionary Paris in 1792. Since then, it has resurfaced and disappeared several times around Europe and across the Atlantic.
Antwerp is the undisputed diamond capital of the world. With 84% of the world's rough diamonds and 50% of cut diamonds passing through, the city attracts international traders seeking the highest quality diamonds.