Growing interest around the world for laboratory-grown diamonds poses both threats and opportunities for African economies that depend on their own natural gems. More and more jewellery lovers are ...

The Koh-i-Noor diamond is valued at $2,500,000—a sum which could purchase 590,000 tons of coal. If this diamond was dropt into the depths ot the sea and lost forever, no one in the world would ...

But in the present debate, it introduces the complication that legally speaking, the Cullinan diamonds were given by a forerunner government of South Africa, rather than having been “looted”.