"Lab diamonds and natural diamonds are chemically and optically identical. They are both tetrahedral crystalline carbon. They ...

Lucapa noted that the blockade of its mine, in the Lunda Norte region was "currently peaceful". There has been some downtime ...

A bus brings them to the shore, and then they take hovercrafts. Alluvial diamond mining in Yakutia’s Anabar District began in 1998. The division works 24 hours year-round. The Diamonds of Anabar ...

In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about the centenary of diamond prospecting and mining along the West Coast of South Africa and the legends that shaped the ...

By contrast, secondary or alluvial' diamonds can be pulled from riverbeds by anyone with a shovel and sieve rich pickings for criminals and warlords desperate for cash. The film, which opened in ...