HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's mining minister said the government will now control all mining in the diamond-rich Marange area, after operators were ordered to halt all mining because their ...

Zimbabwe’s largest diamond miner has begun retrenching some 400 workers as the industry takes a hit from tough domestic foreign currency policies and reduced demand amid global trade wars. State-owned ...

HARARE- Zimbabwe will now allow two more private companies to explore and mine diamonds in the country, bringing to four the number of firms that will operate in the sector, mines minister Winston ...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe is planning to merge all diamond mining companies, including the local unit of Rio Tinto, into one big firm in which the state will own half of the shares, the minister of ...

The access was granted by Red Mercury, a company owned by the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust, which has received an undertaking from the government of Zimbabwe for a licence to mine ...

Zimbabwean Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said a forensic audit of diamonds mined in the controversial Marange field is under way, predicting that it will disprove charges by Finance Minister Tendai Biti ...

HARARE/LONDON - De Beers and Vast Resources will be allowed to explore for diamonds in Zimbabwe, which would make them the first listed companies to mine there in that sector for two years, Mining ...

During a visit by Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa that ended Wednesday, Russian diamond giant Alrosa announced that it has set up a subsidiary in Zimbabwe to begin mining operations there, more ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – A world monitoring group on conflict diamonds said Wednesday it wants restrictions on the sale of Zimbabwe diamonds tightened after calls to relax them by diamond companies in ...

Growing interest around the world for laboratory-grown diamonds poses both threats and opportunities for African economies that depend on their own natural gems. More and more jewellery lovers are ...

HARARE (Reuters) - At least $2 billion of diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields have been stolen by people linked to President Robert Mugabe's party, a diamond watchdog has said, although the state ...

Smugglers of illegal goods succeed by avoiding physical detection of their products. Hence cocaine traders hide their wares inside ping pong balls or even humans. But for legal products, such as ...