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 Zimbabwe has short-listed about 20 companies to extract diamonds at the troubled Marange field but only five were being seriously considered.
ZimOnline reports that the short-listing of the firms came at the back of plans by Zimbabwe to grant small scale indigenous miners licenses to mine gems from the diamond field.
“We have received some 20 applications from various firms to mine diamonds in (Marange),” a senior government official was quoted as saying.
“The applications are now under consideration. Of the 20 applications, four or five applications are seriously under consideration at this stage. We are not sure when the process will be completed, but (Mines Minister Obert) Mpofu has already got the documents.”
Currently, two firms Mbada Diamonds and Canadile Miners – both joint ventures the government’s Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) formed with two South African firms last year – are mining diamonds at Marange.
The ZMDC controls some 69 000 hectares of the vast diamond field.
The joint ventures were formed “in line” with standards set by the Kimberley Process.
Mathew Nyaungwa, Rough&Polished from Namibia
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