The giant miner is sharpening its focus on its iron ore, copper, and aluminum and lithium businesses.

The Diavik diamond mine has been operating for decades, producing more than 150 million carats of diamonds. Not all of its ...

After 23 years of operations and more than 150 million carats of rough diamonds produced before exhausting its economic reserves, Rio Tinto’s Diavik diamond mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada ...

Rio Tinto Group has dug its last diamond and will close its final mine for the precious gemstone, marking the end of a business that lasted more than half a century.

Global mining giant Rio Tinto has marked the last day of production at its Diavik diamond mine in the Northwest Territories.

Diamonds are uniquely valuable due to their extreme hardness and exceptional thermal conductivity, making them the hardest known natural material, about 58 times harder than any other, according to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery of the Lucara Diamond in August in the Karowe Mine in northeast Botswana rocked the jewelry industry, but few were ...

(Reuters) - 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 ...

Gaborone, Botswana — Botswana says one of the largest diamonds ever found has been unearthed at one of its mines and will be put on show on Thursday. The Botswana government believes the huge ...

Crater of Diamonds State Park is located in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, and operates under one of the simplest policies in American tourism. If you find a diamond there, it belongs to you. Families, ...

Mining can be dangerous, exploitative and harmful to the environment. Chie Murakami’s organization is aiming to change that by raising awareness and addressing the needs of miners. By Vivian Morelli ...