De Beers, once a dominant force in the diamond industry, is under severe pressure due to declining demand for natural diamonds and increasing competition from lab-grown alternatives.
South Africa-active Petra Diamonds (Petra) has entered into an agreement to divest its entire shareholding in Tanzania’s ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
Lucara's Karowe mine in Botswana has emerged as the world's leading producer of very large diamonds. A reputation cemented by ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported to be trapped and starving ...
A miners' association said the victims were unarmed. The army said seven illegal miners were killed in a firefight.
During a multi-week stint in South Africa a few years ago, a friend of mine stumbled across several vacant cars on the rural outskirts of Cape Town. One of the cars was stuffed full of surfboards with ...
In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about the centenary of diamond prospecting and ...
Despite its ambitions, the SDT last year reported significant financial underperformance, raising alarms about the health of ...
Tim Goyder's Minerals 260 has emerged as the latest junior to ink a big gold deal, offering $166 million for Zijin's 2.3Moz ...
Sulphuric acid is typically injected into the aquifer rock that contains the uranium to dissolve it. The mine then pumps out ...