Sierra Leone, which was among top 10 diamond producers until 2013 with 608,955 carats of production, exported diamonds worth $221.67 million in2014. The project, a 79.9sqkm diamond mining site is ...

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Sierra Leone is extremely ... economic growth has been driven by mining - particularly iron ore. The country’s principal exports are iron ore, diamonds, and rutile, and the economy is vulnerable ...

Sierra Leone must face a lawsuit by U.S. law firm Jenner & Block seeking to recover more than $8 million in fees from the ...

This business case looks at the ethical and environmental issues associated with the traditional diamond industry ...

A claim for damages of $288 million (€209 million) was demanded in Sierra Leone’s High Court after locals alleged that ...

However, they were only partially lifted in 2015, contrary to what happened in Angola, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone, he added. Today, a third of the 24 diamond mining zones listed in the CAR have ...