Growing interest around the world for laboratory-grown diamonds poses both threats and opportunities for African economies that depend on their own natural gems. More and more jewellery lovers are ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

For years, shy little Sir Ernest Oppenheimer left aides breathless as he raced down into South Africa’s mines or whisked surefootedly around the crags of high finance. “There’s a special place in hell ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Now that its 40%-owned AK6 project, in Botswana, was on track to start production next year, Aim-listed African Diamonds would resume evaluation work on its other ...

GABORONE, Botswana — The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country’s president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewing ...

Jwaneng Diamond Mine: While Russia is the world's largest producer of diamonds, and is also home to the biggest diamond mine on the planet, however, the world's richest diamond is not located in ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - It was like a scene from the darkest days of apartheid: South African police opening fire with live ammunition, killing 34 striking black miners demanding a "living wage" from ...

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 15 (Reuters) - African Diamonds Plc has applied for a diamond mining lease for a one-million -carat-a-year mine in Botswana and is due to start production by late 2009, Managing ...