In 2000, Lee Wenham planned what would have been the world's largest jewel heist, targeting De Beers diamonds valued at more than $500 million. The plan involved a dramatic raid on London’s Millennium ...

BOTSWANA, Africa -- A Canadian diamond producer has unearthed the second largest diamond ever found in a land-locked southern Africa country. Lucara Diamond Corp. announced the recovery of a 1,111 ...

Botswana's Karowe mine recently produced a record breaking 2,492-carat diamond, the largest diamond unearthed in over a century. It's the biggest in a line of massive stones that have come out of the ...

A 170-carat pink diamond discovered in Angola may be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years, according to Australian miner Lucapa Diamond Company. Named the "Lulo Rose," the diamond was found at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 2,492-carat diamond was unearthed at Botswana's famed Karowe mine this week by Canada's Lucara Diamond, one of the largest ...

On January 26, 1905, the course of gemstone history was altered forever in a small town near Pretoria, South Africa. During a routine inspection at the Premier No. 2 mine, Frederick Wells, the mine’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A big pink diamond of ...

The largest rough diamond discovered since 1905, the 1,758-carat Sewelo, was revealed with great fanfare in April, named in July and then largely disappeared from view. Now, it has resurfaced with a ...

CANADA -- A giant 552-carat yellow diamond was discovered in a mine located in Canada's Northwest Territories. Dominion Diamond Mines owns 40 percent of the mine where the diamond was found and said ...