“We recognize the importance of Ekati Diamond Mine to the Northwest Territories economy and to the many employees, contractors, businesses and communities that rely on the operation,” said Jeremy King ...

The owner of The Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories says it has filed for insolvency protection. Australia-based ...

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 ...

The largest diamond in more than a century has been discovered – and experts say the gargantuan gem could be worth more than $100 million. The president of Botswana, the African nation where the ...

Ekati Diamond Mine’s parent company has filed for creditor protection. It says global events caused the gem’s prices to fall ...

Supreme Court proceedings in Vancouver also granted the Arctic Canadian Diamond Company, the Calgary-based operator of ...

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 ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures, an old saying which explains why the world’s diamond miners have started “high grading” their assets, risking rapid depletion of reserves. The large-scale ...

YELLOWKNIFE, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 ...

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 ...