Angolan State diamond marketing company Sodiam plans to hold a rough diamond tender in Luanda, Angola, with viewings to take place between October 24 and November 14 at Sodiam’s offices. The online-only bid submission will end on November 15 at 10:00, with the sale exclusively targeting Sodiam-registered customers that have
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London-listed Botswana Diamonds has entered into a data licence agreement with fellow-listed Petra Diamonds to gain access to the full library of data on the Reivilo kimberlite cluster. Botswana Diamonds was recently awarded a prospecting licence over the Reivilo prospect, with Petra having been the prior holder of the licence.
South Africa’s National Treasury will have a narrower budget deficit in 2022/23 than it earlier assumed, continuing to be trimmed over the next three years thanks to buoyant mining receipts, a Reuters poll found on Friday. In a review of finances due to be announced next week in parliament –
Lucapa has unearthed a Type IIa 131-carat stone at its Lulo mine, in Angola. The “spectacular” gem, according to the Australian miner, is the miner’s fourth +100 carat diamond found in Lulo this year. According to IDEX Online, it’s the 29th +100 carat diamond recovered since commercial production started
Zimbabwe wants gold, diamond and platinum miners to pay half of their royalties to the government in the commodities themselves and the rest in cash, as the southern African country seeks to build its mineral reserves. The Treasury was concerned that the country does not have reserves of the minerals,
The key objective of transparency in applying for prospecting rights and mining rights – and openly managing them – can be enabled by a commercially available cadastre system. While South Africa does not have such a cadastre, fellow African countries that are already thriving on it include Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire,
