Earlier this year one of the largest ever single diamonds was unearthed at a mine in Botswana ... have been reluctant to invest there. South Africa comes in fifth with 80 million carats in ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

has unveiled the names chosen of the two largest diamonds recovered this year at its prolific Karowe mine in Botswana. The 2,488 carat diamond found in August has been named Motswedi, meaning “w ...

In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about the centenary of diamond prospecting and ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Africa's largest gold mine has become one of the greenest on the continent. Kibali, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has set new standards in eco-friendly practices, with much of its ...

Mwanza and Rodriguez are on opposite ends of an $81.4 billion-a-year industry that links the mines of Africa ... in the U.S.—the world’s biggest retail diamond market—have stagnated ...

The mine is estimated to be one of the world’s largest by resource, with an estimated 628 million carats of diamonds at a depth of 600m. Rómulo Mucase, chairman of the board of directors of ...