BlueRock Diamonds: The junior diamond miner with global ambitions

(miningglobal.com) - “In mining, as with any project, the proof of the pudding is the results, and the last two years have shown some really great results for us,” says Adam Waugh, CEO of BlueRock Diamonds. BlueRock Diamonds, established in 2012, is a diamond exploration company founded with one principle – to acquire or invest in under-exploited diamond mines in South Africa and sub Saharan Africa. The company’s flagship operation is the Kareevlei Diamond Project, a 3,000-hectare mining right in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. An open-pit mining plan has been in operation at Kareevlei since late 2015, but the drilling work and mining exploration was first conducted back in the early nineties. In the time since, multiple companies have come and gone, completing light exploration, drilling work and sampling before striking out. BlueRock Diamonds acquired the mining right for the Kareevlei tenement back in 2013 and soon discovered five known diamondiferous kimberlite pipes. Following a trial mining period in 2014, utilising a mining plant that had been put in place from a previous company, BlueRock realised that there was more to the site than had previously been established.