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 ...

Botswana and southern African peers that built much of their prosperity on diamonds are scrambling for alternatives as cheaper, lab-grown stones threaten their economies. Diamond-dependent Botswana is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...