Last week, mining giant DeBeers announced the closure of its lab-grown diamond business and its renewed commitment to natural diamonds. But northern Ontario’s mining industry isn’t expecting an ...

Work continues to rehab former diamond mine Once employing as many as 500 people, today the De Beers diamond mine employs around 90 who are working to put the land back together.

While it may look like a blazing red ruby, the 2.33-carat Winston Red Diamond is just that—a diamond. One of the rarest ...

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.

It's an old-mine cushion cut. GUEST ... I just had to let you know about the diamond. GUEST: Well, I'm glad you did. That made my day. (laughing) My year. APPRAISER: Yeah, but thanks for coming.

Rodriguez has heard about how diamonds fuel distant conflicts, about the miserable conditions of the miners who wrest the stones from the earth, and he worries. The 34-year-old slips on a gold ...

An example is the old mine cut, which creates a squarish stone with rounded corners and a high crown (the top portion of the diamond), a style popular in the Georgian and Victorian eras.