The diamond mining industry is where the modern diamond’s story picks up. Companies like DeBeers (SIDEBAR LINK), the world’s largest diamond mining company based in South Africa, spend millions of ...

De Beers and Endiama discover a new kimberlite deposit in Angola, the first in 30 years, changing the global diamond map.

Johannesburg, South Africa — A tiny village in South Africa has been overrun by thousands of people searching for diamonds. The crowds poured in after a man reported finding a crystal-like stone in a ...

Africa’s two leading diamond producers, Botswana and Angola, are holding high-level talks that could reshape the global ...

Offshore diamond prospecting threatens a fishing community in South Africa, while un-checked mining for the precious stones on land is silting up rivers in Zimbabwe. In Nigeria, serial polluter Shell ...

Bracing against the vibrations of the jackhammer, illicit diamond miner Jefferson Ncube bores steadily into the rock face before him, sending chunks of dry stone clattering to the ground and filling ...

In the cathedral-like atmosphere of the world’s diamond headquarters, where aged Havana leaf burns like incense and merchants converse in hushed tones, a change is slowly taking place. The De Beers ...

Since the coronavirus forced his school to close in March, Papin has been working six days a week at a diamond mine in the ...

Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa — As word spread that there were diamonds to be found beneath the soil in a tiny, rural village in South Africa's Kwa-Zulu Natal region, thousands of people descended with ...

Tommy Trenchard for NPR Bracing against the vibrations of the jackhammer, illicit diamond miner Jefferson Ncube bores steadily into the rock face before him, sending chunks of dry stone clattering to ...