Category: Diamonds
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🇬🇭 Ghana’s Gold Rush: Who Pays the Price for Mineral Wealth?
Ghana’s Birim Valley sits at the intersection of mineral wealth, livelihoods and environmental pressure. From diamonds to gold, informal and illegal mining — widely known as galamsey — provides income for communities while raising serious concerns about land degradation, water pollution and mineral smuggling. Ghana now faces the challenge of building a formal, traceable and…
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🇦🇴 Diamond mining in Angola amounted to 10.7 million carats from January to September of the current year, with a target of 14.8 million carats for 2025.
The African country mined a record 14 million carats in 2024, making it one of the top three largest diamond producers, second only to Russia and Botswana. The Secretary of State for Mineral Resources, Jânio Correia Victor, specified that diamond production in Angola in the first half of 2025 exceeded the same period last year…