Angola eases controls over diamond sector, to double output in four years

It'll surely make you think twice about showering and washing your hands often enough.

It's the fourth largest diamond recovered at Lulo mine to date.

While 2013 will go down as the one when gold stop glittering and miners were forced to tighten their belts, our readers favoured a wide range of stories.

Researcher says it was a "terrible mistake."

New mining listings in the Toronto Stock Exchange and its junior counterpart, the TSX-V, continue to dive.

Numsa will openly recruit from NUM's membership, in direct violation of federation principles. Numsa tells opponents to 'go to hell.'

But scientists think the chance of the Antarctic kimberlite containing economically viable amounts of diamonds may be low.

Drilling results far exceeded expectations.

The CEO of world number two miner Rio Tinto said the quality of Chinese mining equipment is catching up and in some instances surpassing that of the major US manufacturers.