A1 English News | De Beers Stops Work at South Africa's Biggest Mine

Learn with slow English news for A1 listening practice.In this episode: De Beers pauses work at a huge South African diamond mine as fewer people buy diamonds and lab-grown gems grow in popularity. Also: A T. rex fossil called Gus sells for a record $50.1 million at Sotheby's in New York.Today’s English focus: sell for = to be sold at a certain price. Vocabulary: mine (a place to get rock, metal, or stone), market (the place where people buy and sell things), price (how much money something costs).Learn more from today’s episode with the full podcast transcript, English translation, vocabulary explanations, and extra learning materials: https://linguawire.com/episodes/english-a1-2026-07-15

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