Koidu Limited, Sierra Leone’s largest diamond producer, has halted operations and laid off nearly its entire local workforce ...

Notable finds include the 968.9-carat Star of Sierra Leone and a 709-carat alluvial diamond discovered in 2017. Kono District and Tongo Field are key mining areas. China's Kingho Group now ...

Residents of Koidu, in eastern Sierra Leone, are suing the operators of a diamond mine they say has polluted the environment, damaged homes, and cost many their livelihoods. The mine’s owners ...

Plunging revenues, halted operations and growing doubts about diamonds’ cultural and economic relevance are just some of the ...

Sierra Leone's "blood diamonds" helped fuel atrocities ... It was not clear when the results would be announced. The diamond-mining Kono district, in the eastern part of the country, reflected ...

Freetown — President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah announced tighter government controls on diamond mining in Sierra Leone in a keynote address to parliament on Friday. He said the government would ...

The Campaign for Just Mining (CJM) under the auspices of ... of Sando chiefdom with regards to the operation of the Sierra Leone Diamond Company (SLDC) and Milestone Mining Company operating ...

The plant is part of a wave of foreign investments in mining ... who would like jobs there. Sierra Leone's foreign investment boom, mainly in iron ore and diamond mines but also in roads and ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Diamond mining in Sierra Leone, for years a symbol of the worst form of exploitation of Africa's natural resources, is following a global economic trend with miners turning to ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The recent find of a mammoth ... A few days before the new gem was put on auction, the diamond-mining firm Lucara sold an 813-carat diamond for $63 million in London.