Gem deal spares Botswana from blood diamonds
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The world's largest open-pit diamond mine is as big as 52 football fields and more than 20 stories deep.
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Find out what some suppliers are doing to stem the global flow of "blood diamonds"&#8212;gems mined and sold illegally to fuel deadly rebel conflicts.
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The upstart miner has won a huge round as part of its hostile takeover bid for Gold Fields. It&#39;s not money in the bank yet, though.
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Gabarone - The son of poor cattle farmers whose good school grades paved the way to Oxford University, President Festus Mogae describes himself as the &#39;CEO&#39; of diamond-rich Botswana, the southern African country he has lead since 1998.
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Diamonds -- online -- can be an investor's best friend.
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Botswana President Festus Mogae&#39;s ruling party leads in early results on Sunday with the opposition split -- and is seen as a safe bet to win overall in the world&#39;s largest diamond producer.
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It was only 12 months ago that Kelly Holmes stood by the side of the Stade Louis II here on the CÃ´te d&#39;Azur bemoaning her apparent lot as the unappreciated diamond of British athletics.
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Thieves snatched two diamonds worth a total of 11.5 million euros (14.1 million dollars) from an antique dealers' show in a bold heist at the Louvre museum complex in Paris, police said.
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MURFREESBORO, Ark. - Walking along a path taken by thousands of others at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, Nicole Ruhter noticed something everyone else had missed - a tea-colored, 2.93-carat diamond.
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Thieves stole two diamonds worth almost Â£8 million yesterday from a dealers&#39; show at the Louvre museum complex in Paris. Police blamed lax security after the thieves broke into a display case on a stand operated
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Hollywood's take on "conflict diamonds" has brought attention back in a big way to how gems associated with wealth and glamour have too often meant war and suffering in Africa.
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London-listed Central African Mining & Exploration launched a formal offer for Katanga Mining Ltd on Wednesday, but Katanga Chief Executive Arthur Ditto said he was not interested.
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Junior mining company Northern Lion Gold Corp. has bought the remaining 30 per cent in a Finnish gold and copper property that it didn't already own in deal worth about $4.6 million.
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A 603-carat diamond, the biggest found in 13 years and the 15th largest in the world, went on sale in Antwerp on Wednesday after being uncovered in Lesotho in southern Africa, the owners said.
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Initial results from Botswana&#39;s election were delayed on Sunday but President Festus Mogae&#39;s ruling party has won the first seat and is seen as safe to win the overall poll in the world&#39;s largest diamond producer.
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Journey to Sierra Leone to see the deadly effects of "blood diamonds," stones harvested illegally to fund wars and campaigns of terror.
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Human rights organizations and the diamond industry are working on ways to keep conflict diamonds&#151;those sold to fund armed conflict&#151;off the international market.