An artisanal miner holds an uncut diamond in his hand in Kimberley KIMBERLEY, South Africa (Reuters) - The first South African project to bring illegal miners into the formal fold has been plagued by ...

West Wits Mining has secured a key new tenement at its new Qala Shallows underground gold mine in South Africa’s world-class ...

Diamond miner Petra Diamonds expects all ore from its Kimberley underground operation to be processed through the combined treatment plant associated with its Kimberley Ekapa Mining (KEM) joint ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – A month after South African diamond-mining company De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) sold its Kimberley Mines, the National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM’s) Kimberley ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South Africa’s De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) on Thursday announced its intention to dispose of its Kimberley Mines as a going concern by competitive tender to a ...

An exploration company hopes to extract potentially thousands of blocks of granite from the Malarngowem people’s native title area 50km north of the remote West Australian town of Halls Creek. It ...

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has acquired the Kimberley Diamond for its National Gem Collection. The 55.08-carat diamond will go on display in the Hall of Geology Gems and Minerals ...

The first South African project to bring illegal miners into the formal fold has been plagued by violence in diamond capital Kimberley, dealing a major blow to national efforts to stem a booming ...