Since the coronavirus forced his school to close in March, Papin has been working six days a week at a diamond mine in the ...

Offshore diamond prospecting threatens a fishing community in South Africa, while un-checked mining for the precious stones on land is silting up rivers in Zimbabwe. In Nigeria, serial polluter Shell ...

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 ...

In the cathedral-like atmosphere of the world’s diamond headquarters, where aged Havana leaf burns like incense and merchants converse in hushed tones, a change is slowly taking place. The De Beers ...

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 ...