The first Namaqualand diamond discovery was just ... including marine, land and river deposits, attempts to consolidate old-mining assets and privatise Alexkor, and the demise of Villages/Towns ...

Satellite images show a shimmering trail of dried, chemical-filled mud left behind by wastewater that flooded the town of ...

South Africa has submitted more than 50 species to the Red List of threatened species every year for the past three years from the Richtersveld region alone due to expanding diamond mining, ongoing ...

On Sept. 11, 2022, a dam at a diamond mine in Jagersfontein suddenly collapsed, releasing a deluge of mining waste, known as tailings, which swept through the outskirts of the town and into the ...

Alleged illegal diamond mining is taking place on communally owned land in the remote Richtersveld, leaving the landscape and the !Ama (Nama) people devastated.