GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The Botswana government signed a new diamond sales agreement crucial to its economy with the De Beers mining company on Tuesday after seven years of negotiations. The deal ...

Sitting on nearly double its permitted diamond stockpile as weak prices and rising competition from lab‑grown stones curb ...

By Brian Benza GABORONE, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Botswana's diamond stockpile is nearly double its target inventory levels amid ...

Diamonds are losing their sparkle, at least for the stones dug out of the ground. The rapid development of lab-grown synthetic diamonds increasingly looks like it will deliver a death blow to diamond ...

Botswana faces economic challenges as diamond stockpiles nearly double target levels, amid falling prices and weak demand. The nation struggles to boost production, with the diamond sector critical to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...