Botswana Diamonds has been granted a five-year prospecting permit in South Africa on property holding a cluster of kimberlites.
The Reivilo cluster has three kimberlite pipes, with sizes of 3.1 ha, 1.7 ha, and 0.9 ha.
“We’ve got two major project areas. The one is in South Africa, in the Northern Cape, and I hope to be able to go into the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy conference in a couple of weeks to talk about this,” Botswana Diamonds managing director James Campbell was quoted by Mining Weekly as saying to a Junior Mining Indaba.
“This is the Reivilo cluster of kimberlites, which, interestingly, if you look in the historical literature, very, very little is spoken about, and that’s quite rare for a kimberlite or diamond province in the world. It’s five kimberlites, near the surface, but need a fair amount of work, but they are diamondiferous.”
G10 and eclogitic garnets were found in drilling core samples, and micro-diamond analyses have begun with the collection of samples.
Botswana Diamonds got a databank on Reivilo in exchange for royalty from Petra Diamonds.
Mathew Nyaungwa, Editor in Chief of the African Bureau, Rough&Polished
