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GABORONE, Botswana — The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country’s president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewing ...

On January 26, 1905, the course of gemstone history was altered forever in a small town near Pretoria, South Africa. During a routine inspection at the Premier No. 2 mine, Frederick Wells, the mine’s ...

GABORONE, Botswana(AP) — In a village outside Botswana ’s capital, Keorapetse Koko sat on an aging couch in her sparsely furnished home, stunned that a career — and an entire nation’s economy — built ...

By Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Brian Benza CAPE TOWN, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Botswana plans to ramp up mining exploration, ...

Namibia has become the sixth country to sign up to the Luanda Accord - an agreement on the marketing of natural diamonds ...