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.Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said that all contracts and mining leases that were awarded by government to mining firms in the controversial Marange diamond field should be cancelled as they were fraudulently awarded.
Despite reports that Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) had given a dividend of 800 000 USD, Zimonline quoted Biti as saying that the state had not received any revenue from the diamond mining area.
“There is nothing coming from Chiadzwa. There is nothing coming to the fiscus from Chiadzwa,” Biti was quoted as saying.
“Chiadzwa represents the biggest find of alluvial diamonds in the history of mankind. In the interest of transparency, all mining licences, leases, special grants that have been given in Chiadzwa must be cancelled forthwith. All mining operations must cease. There must be a new diamond law in Zimbabwe.”
Zimonline reports that government had also shortlisted firms to extract diamonds in Chiadzwa.
The short listing of the firms came at a time when a Kimberley Process (KP) monitor Abbey Chikane had begun assessing operations in Zimbabwe.
Currently, two firms Mbada Diamonds and Canadile Miners were mining diamonds at the diamond fields.
Mathew Nyaungwa, Rough&Polished, from Namibia
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