The Equitable Access Campaign (EAC), which includes local marine diamond miners operating off the coast of Alexander Bay, tells Mining Weekly it strongly disagrees that State-owned land and marine diamond mining company Alexkor’s concessions potentially being be sold off. It argues that Alexkor’s assets are “unquestionably strategic” and “arguably priceless”.

Canada’s Stornoway Diamonds on Thursday announced a management shakeup as part of a rationalisation exercise, which began last year with the privitisation of the company. Patrick Godin had resigned as CEO and Annie Torkia Lagacé also stepped down as executive VP, finance and corporate services. Gordon would be succeeded by

Lesotho has opened up more border posts to speed up  the return to work of locked-down foreign mineworkers. As reported  by Mining Weekly last week, 12 000 mineworkers had one border post at their disposal on re-entering South Africa from Lesotho and the opening of more border posts was requested.

Diversified miner Anglo American CE Mark Cutifani has called for a society-wide response to the global Covid-19 crisis and says the miner is committed to global tax and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). In its Tax and Economic Contribution report for the year ended December 31, 2019, Cutifani says

Russian diamond miner Alrosa has suspended work at its Inter underground mine, after several employees tested positive for Covid-19. Operations would be idled for one to two weeks, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The employees who tested positive for Covid-19 are treated at the Mirny hospital and

TSX-V-listed Pangolin Diamonds on June 23 provided an update on recent activities at its various projects in Botswana, with all field teams now fully operational. It added that the Botswana Department of Mines had granted the company’s joint venture partner, Makunwu Civl Blasting, to proceed with a 500 t bulk