Africa is known as a home to huge and expensive diamonds, and in this small village near Koidu, Sierra Leone, the world’s largest alluvial ... are in the business of mining.

Russia's diamond mines, which are found sprawling across the massive Siberia region, account for around a third of the world's supply of the precious gemstones ...

The mine is the second largest diamond in the world, second to the Aikhal mine in Russia which is owned by Alrosa, a Russian diamond mining company. Botswana is often referred to as the "land of ...

Botswana, a sparsely populated and arid country in southern Africa, is the biggest ... last year that was the second-biggest diamond ever dug out of a mine and the biggest in more than a century.

In the cathedral-like atmosphere of the world’s diamond headquarters ... deeper and better mining methods boosted De Beers’ own output in South Africa, South West Africa and Tanganyika ...

This is the first time that a fossil thrips has been recorded anywhere in Africa, or the entire southern hemisphere.