Most people assume diamond hunting requires industrial machinery, deep shafts, and corporate backing. But tucked away in the rolling hills of Arkansas sits a unique exception. At Crater of Diamonds ...

Diamonds are uniquely valuable due to their extreme hardness and exceptional thermal conductivity, making them the hardest known natural material, about 58 times harder than any other, according to ...

The discovery of the Lucara Diamond in August in the Karowe Mine in northeast Botswana rocked the jewelry industry, but few were as moved by the historic find as Susan Jacques, the president and chief ...

DeBeers recently renewed its focus on natural diamonds after experimenting with lab grown ones, but that probably won't be enough to revive diamond mining in northern Ontario, according to some ...

The world’s largest diamond was discovered near Pretoria, South Africa in 1905 when Frederick Wells, a mine superintendent, carried out a routine inspection at the Premier Mine. The 2,492 carat ...

CULLINAN, South Africa (Reuters) - The owner of one of the world's most famous diamond mines could be about a decade away from clearing its multi-million-dollar debts, in a sign of the struggles ...