With an abundance of diamonds from South Africa's nascent mines suddenly flooding ... and many famous stones evoke the complicated and contentious history of colonialism — like the legendary ...

the rare gem attracts 6 million visitors a year to the Natural History Museum. Chip Clark The Blue Heart Diamond, cut from a 100-carat stone found at the Premiere Mine in South Africa in 1909 ...

The Kimberley Process grew out of a 2000 meeting in Kimberley, South Africa, when the world’s major diamond producers and buyers met to address growing concerns, and the threat of a consumer ...

AFP via Getty Images Visitors focused on the 10-karat blue diamond from South Africa, considered one of the most important blue diamonds ever discovered. Sotheby’s expects it to be auctioned off ...

For nearly 2,000 years, the mines at Golconda were the only source of diamonds on earth (South Africa's deposits were ... Golconda remains present in the history of stones, some of the most ...

Petra Diamonds, which has the world's third-largest resource of diamonds, said on Wednesday it had delayed the sale of gems from its Cullinan Mine in South Africa until there was greater clarity ...

Dating history is a herculean task. For diamonds, reportedly ... after its discovery, Brazil and South Africa found it too and soon these quickly made way to Europe, China and other nations.

or other major diamond producing countries like South Africa, China, India, United States, or Europe. The Jwaneng Diamond Mine in Botswana, a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, is regarded as ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... Visitors focused on the 10-karat blue diamond from South Africa, considered one of the most important blue diamonds ever ...