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 ...

Mining still continues but the land and communities suffer the impact of mining with homes, farms and livelihoods destroyed. A Delta flight flipped upside down while landing at Toronto's main ...

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 ...

seen as the capital of diamond mining in West Africa. Ever since the so-called “Star of Sierra Leone” – at 969 carats, the fourth-largest diamond to have ever been unearthed – was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Koidu Limited, Sierra Leone’s largest diamond producer ... founded by Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz’s BSG Resources. Mining tycoon Beny Steinmetz released by Greek top court Charles ...

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 ...

Villagers from Sierra Leone's eastern Kono district are suing a company which they accuse of being complicit in polluting air and well water, destroying crops and homes and provoking violence.

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.

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 ...