China is set to make one if its biggest overseas investments, in the west African nation of Liberia.
It's promising to spend $2.6bn developing an iron ore mine.
It's hoped the project will create 3,000 jobs in a country struggling to recover from years of war.
Dan Nolan reports from the mine site, about 150 kilometres north of the capital, Monrovia.
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"