Botswana has introduced a new regulation requiring mining companies to sell a 24% stake in new concessions to local investors ...

Botswana has enforced a new rule requiring mining companies to sell a 24% stake in new concessions to local investors if the ...

Botswana's Karowe mine just produced a record-breaking 2,492-carat diamond, the largest unearthed in over a century.

State trader Okavango Diamond Co. had offered about 1 million carats of rough stones in Thursday’s “closed” tender.

Botswana has implemented a new regulation mandating that all new mining concessions allocate a 24% stake to local investors if ...

Debswana Mining Company, equally owned by De Beers and the Botswana government, will close a diamond mine in the country as weak demand and trading disruption from the pandemic make the mining of ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed an Article IV consultation in Botswana, which found that the diamond ...

Lucara estimates that its Karowe mine accounts for 0.3% to 0.4% of global diamond production. The world’s largest diamond was discovered near Pretoria, South Africa in 1905 when Frederick Wells, a ...

GHAGHOO, Botswana (miningweekly.com) – London-listed diamond mining company Gem Diamonds on Friday officially opened its new Ghaghoo diamond mine, which is the first underground diamond mine in ...

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 ...

GABORONE, Botswana — The Botswana government signed a new diamond sales agreement crucial to its economy with the De Beers mining company on Tuesday after seven years of negotiations. The deal gives ...

Companies are required to sell a 24% stake in new concessions to local investors if the government chooses not to buy.