Botswana used its mineral wealth to slash poverty. But now, lab-grown diamonds are threatening the future of its biggest ...

Botswana Diamonds (LON: BOD) will rebrand as Botswana Minerals and trade under the new ticker BMIN from February 27 as it expands into copper exploration to cut exposure to a prolonged downturn in the ...

A chance encounter with President Ian Khama of Botswana connected a local Madison business owner with the country producing many of his diamonds. Brent Meade, owner of Gruno’s Diamonds, describes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 2,492-carat diamond was unearthed at Botswana's famed Karowe mine this week by Canada's Lucara Diamond, one of the largest ...

I learnt many years ago that – in the context of a late night at a Kenyan pub – there is one thing which is likely to provoke an incandescent fury in a fellow patron who had previously been arguing ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana votes in a national election this week that will decide if the ruling party extends a 58-year stretch in power in a southern African country that is a leading ...

Canadian diamond mining company Lucara Diamond Corp is developing the underground project at Karowe to extend the mine’s life and continue the production of large, high-value Type IIa diamonds.

GABORONE, Botswana — In a village outside Botswana ’s capital, Keorapetse Koko sat on an aging couch in her sparsely furnished home, stunned that a career — and an entire nation’s economy — built on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The Botswana ...