Diamcor recovers diamonds at SA project

Diamcor Mining has recovered 1,877 individual rough diamonds with a total weight of about 143.96 carats from the Krone-Endora at Venetia project, in South Africa.
It said that the rough diamonds were recovered in conjunction with initial testing and commissioning work completed on the x-ray flow-sort final recovery modules being installed at the project.
Diamcor said of the diamonds recovered, six of the individual stones were 1.0 carat or larger in size, with the two largest being recorded at approximately 3.93 carats and 2.09 carats respectively.
“The initial recovery of rough diamonds from the Krone-Endora at Venetia project represents yet another key milestone for our Company,” said Diamcor chief executive Dean Taylor in a statement.
“With this important step now accomplished, we are focused on completing the remaining installation, testing, and commissioning work underway on the Project’s processing plant and infrastructure as quickly as possible, which will allow us to further advance the Project and move towards our next milestones.”
The acquired concentrate processed and used for this testing was a by-product of exploration and bulk sampling efforts previously completed by De Beers on the project, it said.
Diamcor said it was now targeting staged monthly operational increases during the near-term trial-mining phase along with additional bulk sampling exercises on new areas of the project not previously accounted for in its initial NI 43-101 Technical Report.

Mathew Nyaungwa, Editor in Chief of the African Bureau, Rough&Polished