Koidu Limited, Sierra Leone’s largest diamond producer, has halted operations and laid off nearly its entire local workforce of more than 1,000 employees following a protracted dispute over pay and ...

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 ...

OCTEA diamond mining company spokesman Ibrahim Kamara said Friday that the company is increasing the year-end salary bonus for workers from 20 percent to 30 percent. Sierra Leone's diamond wealth ...

The judges said Taylor supplied arms and other help to rebels in exchange for so-called "blood diamonds" mined in Sierra Leone. Today diamond mining is apparently "clean" and a major industry in ...

The Koidu diamond mine in Sierra Leone will be set for an initial public ... sold out to its partner Anglo America for $5.1 billion. Russian diamond mining giant Alrosa is also reportedly ...

PERTH (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed Newfield Resources has resumed mining at its Tongo diamond mine, in Sierra Leone, following a fatality in May. The company in May reported a fall-of-ground ...

KOIDU, Sierra Leone (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A dispute over a bridge in eastern Sierra Leone thought to span diamond deposits has divided a local community with a foreign mining company ...

FREETOWN, March 20 (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 ...