Ekapa Mine faces financial strain from falling diamond prices, causing proposed salary cuts and unrest among workers.

For centuries, diamonds have captivated people, symbolizing luck and protection from evil. Even today, the pursuit of the ...

Canadian diamond mining company Lucara Diamond Corp is developing the underground project at Karowe to extend the mine’s life and continue the production of large, high-value Type IIa diamonds.

Debmarine Namibia, a subsidiary of Anglo American's diamond unit De Beers, on Monday reported a 13% drop in production to 1.125 million carats last year as demand slumped during the COVID-19 ...

Diamonds are uniquely valuable due to their extreme hardness and exceptional thermal conductivity, making them the hardest known natural material, about 58 times harder than any other, according to ...

A massive 2,492-carat diamond — the second-largest stone ever unearthed — has been recovered from a mine in Botswana. The stone, found at the Karowe mine that’s run by Canada’s Lucara Diamond Corp., ...

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 ...

A rare bi-colored pink diamond of “astounding weight” was found at the Karowe diamond mine in Botswana, according to the Gemological Institute of America. Lucara Diamond A rare rough, or uncut, pink ...

Lucapa plans to restart production at the Merlin diamond mine. The mine comprises two phases. Phase 1, which comprises the Gawain, Ywain, Palomides, Sacramore and Excalibur pits, will use excavator ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery of the Lucara Diamond in August in the Karowe Mine in northeast Botswana rocked the jewelry industry, but few were ...

A South African diamond mine is being shut down after a mudslide trapped five miners underground and the company says they are presumed dead.