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Lions Gate Metals Expands Main Zone Mineralization at Poplar Deposit

Canada-based junior resource company, Lions Gate Metals has declared the results of 3 additional holes from 29 holes, 10,913.93 m, diamond drill project located at the Poplar Copper-Gold-Silver Porphyry Property.

25 Jan 2012

Steinmetz Diamond Looks to List Sierra Leone Diamond Mine‎ on Hong Kong Stock Exchange

The Steinmetz Diamond Group of Companies is looking to float its diamond mine in Sierra Leone on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

24 Jan 2012

Researchers Reveal How Diamonds Rise From Earth's Depths‎

Diamonds are formed in the magma that is present deep inside the Earth. Then how do they get to the surface of the planet to a depth where miners can easily harvest them? That is what the researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver tried to find out.

22 Jan 2012

Zambia Seeking to Gain from Booming Mining Sector

Zambia is looking to realise greater profits from its mining industry. The Mines Minister Wilbur Simuusa was speaking to mine supplier and contractors at the Chingola mine club when he said that in terms of mineral resources they were the richest nation and yet they were counted amongst the poorest nations in the world.

19 Jan 2012

Discovery of Huge Diamond Deposit in China

The largest deposit of diamonds in Asia has been discovered in the Liaoning province in China. The mine in the Wafandgdian district near the city of Dalian is expected to hold one million carats of diamonds. It was discovered last year.

16 Jan 2012

BHP Ditches Baffin Island Diamond Project

Diamonds are not forever, at least not for BHP Billiton. The mining giant has decided to sell its stake in one of two diamond mining operations it is involved with in Canada.

From BHP Billiton Plc 21 Dec 2011

Kimberley Process Fail: Mugabe Using Diamond Money to Stay in Power

Is President Mugabe using the blood diamonds profits to stick on to power in Zimbabwe? The dismal failure of the Kimberley Process to regulate the sale of conflict diamonds begs this question as environmentalists and human rights activists criticize the situation.

19 Dec 2011