JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – A junior diamond mining company has recovered a spectacular pink diamond from the banks of the Middle Orange River. The diamond, named Protea Pink, is a fancy pink, ...

Botswana Diamonds, a diamond exploration and project development company, has secured a mining permit for its Thorny River project in South Africa. The permit covers an area proximate to the ...

Thorny River comprises the eastern extension of the kimberlite dyke and/or pipe systems on which the Klipspringer and Marsfontein mines are located, both of which have been economically mined. The ...

A 170-carat pink diamond discovered in Angola may be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years, according to Australian miner Lucapa Diamond Company. Named the "Lulo Rose," the diamond was found at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Desperate times call for desperate measures, an old saying which explains why the world’s diamond miners have started “high ...

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., ...