Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Mining here is a high-tech operation. Workers use powerful drills and controlled explosions to break up the earth, then transport the rock using massive trucks that can carry up to 250 tonnes at a ...

The Mediterranean Blue” is 10.3-carat fancy vivid blue diamond with VS2 clarity that is the highlight of Sotheby's Geneva ...

This brings us to the world’s richest diamond mine, worth an estimated £1 billion, that sits in the heart of an ancient volcanic crater in Botswana. The Jwaneng Diamond Mine, nicknamed the ...

Pomona, a former diamond mining settlement in southern Namibia ... In 1915, South African troops took control of German South West Africa, and the railway was destroyed. After the war, De Beers ...

It is an open-pit mine, formed around a rare volcanic rock formation called a kimberlite pipe, which contains high ...

Africa’s mining sector at a crossroads: resource sovereignty, infrastructure bottlenecks, and political risks dominate Mining ...

(IDEX Online) - Six people have been arrested in South Africa on suspicion of illegal diamond mining as part of an ongoing ...

Botswana Diamonds (BOD) says it has been granted a mining permit for its Thorny River project in South Africa's Limpopo ...