Canadian-headquartered Lucara Diamond Corporation has announced plans to reappoint William Lamb president and CEO of the company, as well as director, succeeding Eira Thomas. Lamb brings to the... 

Illegal mining has grown in scale and complexity, forcing mine security personnel and law enforcement to adapt as traditional security measures become obsolete. Additionally, the sophistication of... 

Illegal mining has grown in scale and complexity, forcing mine security personnel and law enforcement to adapt as traditional security measures become obsolete. Additionally, the sophistication of... 

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports that mining production increased by 1.1% year-on-year in June, with the largest positive contributors having been platinum group metals (PGMs) and gold.... 

TSX-listed Lucara Diamond Corp has recovered a 1 080 ct Type IIa diamond at its Karowe mine, in Botswana – the fourth diamond weighing more than 1 000 ct to be recovered at the mine since 2015.... 

Botswana's state diamond company is planning to diversify how it sells precious stones to the market as it gears up to receive far more supply under a multi-year deal the country struck with... 

Diamond exploration and development company Botswana Diamonds says mining on the Marsfontein project, in Limpopo, South Africa, is a proof of concept that is working well. Marsfontein is designed... 

Junior mining and exploration company Diamcor has narrowed its net loss for the financial year ended March 31, to $762 308, compared with a loss of about $2.4-million for the 2022 financial year.... 

The De Beers Group faced off tricky macro-economic conditions to record first-half earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of $0.3-billion, with the diamond... 

South African State-owned mining company African Exploration Mining and Finance Corporation (AEMFC) is actively searching for partnerships with South Sudanese mining companies, according to an... 

De Beers Group has delivered first production from the underground operations at the Venetia mine. 

An international team of scientists led by the University of Southampton has discovered that the breakup of tectonic plates is the main driving force behind the generation and eruption of... 

The US$2.3 billion investment to take South Africa’s leading diamond mine underground bolsters De Beers’ global production and will benefit the South African economy and host communities until at... 

Global miner De Beers' rough diamond production decreased by 5% year-on-year to 7.6-million carats in the second quarter as a result of the planned reduction in South Africa while the Venetia... 

ASX-listed Lucapa Diamond Company has reported a strong second-quarter performance, with a record volume of material mined and treated at its Lulo mine, in Angola and its Mothae mine, in Lesotho.... 

With an operational turnaround under way at diamond miner Petra Diamond’s Finsch mine, in South Africa; the restart of its Williamson mine, in Tanzania, running ahead of schedule; and the company’s... 

Canadian diamond miner Mountain Province continues to hold a positive demand outlook for smaller goods, despite the softening of the broader rough diamond market in the second quarter of the year.... 

A new deal Botswana signed this month with De Beers that will give it access to more diamonds mined within the country will be a major boost for the economy, President Mokgweetsi Masisi said in an... 

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports that mining production decreased by 0.8% year-on-year in May, with the largest negative contributors having been platinum group metals (PGMs) and... 

In this article, Department of Mineral Resources and Energy media relations director Ernest Mulibana writes about the scourge of illegal mining in South Africa and its impact on the economy. 

This week: De Beers commits billion pula upfront to diamonds-for-development in Botswana; Lawyer says South African regulator not doing enough to promote junior mining; and, water power in... 

A new collection of rings, featuring miner Gemfields’ emeralds and rubies, has been unveiled during the Journées de la Haute Joaillerie. Gemfields – a miner and marketer of coloured gemstones – has... 

ASX-listed Lucapa Diamond Company has fully repaid all interest-bearing loans that it had borrowed from gold exploration and mining company Equigold and the Industrial Development Corporation of... 

In this opinion article, policy adviser and former CEO of De Beers Botswana Sheila Khama writes about the implications of the heads of agreement signed by the Botswana government and diamond miner... 

The De Beers Group, which concluded in principle diamond sales and mining agreements with the government of Botswana at the weekend, has committed a billion pula (R1.4-billion) upfront to fund the... 

The public market continues to see delistings on the JSE and other South African stock exchanges at an alarming rate, says consultancy and research provider AmaranthCX director Paul Miller, with 14... 

Diamond mining and marketing company De Beers and the Botswana government have reached an in principle agreement on a 25-year extension of the Debswana mining licences, through to 2054, and a new... 

Combating climate change is a process. We are all in it together. We need to work together, and we need to be strategic about how we do it, how we report it, and how we talk about it. 

Junior miners in Africa face several challenges, especially in terms of accessing funding in the region, says Southern Africa’s only active listed junior diamond miner Botswana Diamonds (BOD) MD... 

Diamond miner Petra Diamonds improved its diamond mining performance in the third quarter of its 2023 financial year, to March this year, in the wake of lower production in the quarter prior. This... 

Diamond miner Petra Diamonds has pointed out that laboratory-grown diamonds (LGDs) are diverging as a distinctly separate product category with a lower price point that can work alongside the... 

ASX-listed Burgundy Diamond Mines will move to complete the acquisition of the Ekati diamond mine, in Canada, after shareholders approved the $136-million deal and the $150-million conditional... 

De Beers has sold about $450-million of rough diamonds through global sightholder sales and auctions in its fifth cycle of this year. The provisional rough diamond sales figure quoted for the fifth... 

This week: Woman-led Lethabo is mining iron-ore in Limpopo with offtake agreement in place; Lithium-pioneering Marula to be additionally listed on JSE; and, diamond junior says junior miner CEO is... 

Investing in African Mining Indaba (Mining Indaba) is honoured to announce that the President of the Republic of Angola, H.E. João Lourenço, will attend Mining Indaba 2024 where he will deliver a... 

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses the value Copper 360 has identified at its mines in the Northern Cape; Botswana Diamonds' new prospecting licence in the Northern Cape; and the... 

After 14 months of year-on-year contractions in mining production, South Africa in April recorded a 2.3% year-on-year increase in output to April. Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports that... 

Angola President João Lourenço will attend the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2024, where he will deliver a keynote address. "His presence marks a significant step of progress for Angola and... 

London Aim- and Botswana-listed diamond exploration company Botswana Diamonds has been granted a five-year prospecting licence on ground containing a cluster of kimberlites in South Africa.... 

Namibia has banned the export of unprocessed lithium and other critical minerals, the government announced on Thursday, as it seeks to profit from growing global demand for metals used in clean... 

Diamond marketing company Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) will be enhancing and diversifying its sales channels and partnerships to meet the increased demand for diamonds caused by the... 

The board of Aim-listed BlueRock Diamonds, together with the business rescue practitioners (BRPs) of its subsidiary Kareevlei Mining, have decided to put BlueRock in administration, as it cannot...