"Primero achieved its strongest quarter to date. San Dimas delivered record gold and silver production, record profit margins and record operating cash flow for Primero."

The decision by the diamond rich country leaves Anglo American to pick up the full $5.1bn tab for the buyout of the remaining shares owned by the Oppenheimer family

Brilliance.com with a brief infographic on the need-to-know properties of diamonds: Carat, color, clarity and cut.

The Marange diamond fields are home to controversy and a 25% wage increase.

With Botswana a top producer, diamond production rose by 26% to $14.41 billion 2011.

With an illegal strike on its hands Gold One has reduced its guidance, originally set at 300 000 oz, down to 250 000 oz.

'Structural failure' at CONSOL Energy's mine and preparation plant in Pennsylvania has the company reporting that the Bailey and Enlow Fork mines could be fully impacted for the next two weeks.

Visual Capitalist has done it again! This time they answer the question 'how rare are 1 million+ oz gold deposits?'

Reports that assays contained "interesting enrichment in certain rare earth elements" and that gold mineralization was not tested in the area, were not enough to deter investors from dumping the stock – which traded at 17 times the normal volume.

Despite a drop in net income, from $68.9 million last Q2 to this year's $43.4, the miner saw an increase in revenue, gold production and, as a result, a pleasant 8.5% rise in stock price.

The company reported a 20% drop in its adjusted Q2 earnings due in part, says Goldcorps CEO, to the operating problems at its Penasquito and Red Lake projects.

Located somewhere under 'a building within the international airport compound' in Hong Kong, Malca-Amit's vault is designed to hold 1,000 tonnes of gold – roughly 22% of the gold bullion currently at Fort Knox.