In the cathedral-like atmosphere of the world’s diamond headquarters ... his outspoken appeal for South Africa to rejoin the Commonwealth and to treat its black Africans better.

De Beers has appointed Molefi Letsiki, who owns Molefi Letsiki Diamonds in Johannesburg, South Africa, as its first majority-Black sightholder authorized to purchase rough diamonds. Israeli ...

The Koh-i-Noor diamond is valued at $2,500,000—a sum which could purchase 590,000 tons of coal. If this diamond was dropt into the depths ot the sea and lost forever, no one in the world would ...

A bigger, less pure black diamond was discovered in Brazil in the late 1800s, but it was found above ground and was believed to have been part of a meteorite. Africa: Despite the relative ...

Yet here on South Africa's wild and diamond-rich Atlantic ... hampers their legal operations and fuels a parallel black market in illegal diamonds. "At the end of the day, it's a situation that's ...