The good and great were there to watch as de beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer handed over a gilded key to the custom-built facility just outside central ...  -

... renegotiation of contracts between state mining companies and mining majors BHP Billiton, Freeport McRoRan Copper & Gold Inc and diamond giant de beers. ...

AT THE new Eurostar diamond cutting factory in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, hundreds of workers in neat rows are labouring over tiny stones. ...  -

The creation of the DTCB, an equal joint venture between de beers and the Botswana government, will end the practice of sending diamonds mined in Botswana ...  -

Alrosa wants to create something similar to de beers' sightholders, and have 10 to 15 large clients, instead of 100 to 200 small ones. ...

In return for renewing a rough diamond supply agreement, de beers promised to move aggregation of rough diamonds to Botswana, the world's single largest ...

Diamond producer Debswana, a joint-venture between the Botswana government and de beers, was hoping to find new mines in that country to take up the some ...

The creation of the DTCB, a joint venture between de beers and the Botswana government, will end the practice of sending diamonds mined in Botswana to De ...  -

However, he noted that he was not fully convinced that the country, which is the biggest market for the diamonds that de beers produces globally, ...

DTC Botswana will be the largest and most sophisticated rough diamond sorting and valuing operation in the world -- de beers is investing US$83 million in ...