Amanda Triossi – an expert of Sotheby's, the registrar and curator of the BVLGARY anniversary exhibition, collector of jewelry and author of some books about jewelry art - intends to visit Russia in the near future with an authorial workshop, “Understanding jewelry.”
Arthur Androsov, Doctor of Engineering, Professor, a diamond industry veteran and inventor, gave this interview to Rough&Polished. 
Varda Shine, Managing Director of Diamond Trading Company (DTC), met our correspondent in London shortly before the World Diamond Congress in Moscow for this interview where she shared some of her views on the current state of affairs in the diamond industry.Reports say the Zimbabwean government has accused world diamond mining giant, De Beers of looting tonnes of diamonds from the Marange mining fields over a period of 15 years without notifying the state of the discovery of the gems.
“De Beers looted our diamonds for 15 years and were sending them to South Africa without our knowledge and they had even declared that area a restricted area, as if it was their land when the country belongs to us,” Mines minister Obert Mpofu told journalists.
He was quoted as saying by the Independent that the government during that time believed that De Beers was only prospecting and carrying out tests when in reality the company was carrying out covert mining activities.
“Everyone knows that the diamonds at Chiadzwa are mined from the surface and De Beers was for the last 15 years alleging that they were doing prospecting and carrying out tests when in actual fact they were looting diamonds from Chiadzwa,” he was quoted as saying.
He said De Beers pulled out of the country when government began a probe into the operations of the company after getting wind that there were diamonds at Chiadzwa and that the diamond miner was covertly mining at the site.
Mathew Nyaungwa, Rough&Polished, from Namibia
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