Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Colombian mine owner, speaking on condition of anonymity, takes a little white paper packet out of his shirt ...

Prices do not appear poised for a quick recovery (see analysis). Colombian mines have continued operating through the general decline in commodity prices in the past three years, save of course the ...

It may be churlish of me to highlight this during wedding season, but as scientist and jeweller Aja Raden points out in her cultural history Stoned, gemstones are "just colourful gravel." She ...

MUZO, Colombia — Although he has helped transform Colombia's emerald industry, long a source of violence and environmental damage, former U.S. diplomat Charles Burgess admits that he got into the ...