Afrol News Marine Diamond Mining Off Namibia

Debmarine Namibia is a joint venture marine diamond prospecting and mining company, owned in equal shares by the Government of the Republic of Namibia and De Beers. Debmarine Namibia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Namdeb Holdings (Pty) Ltd. Debmarine Namibia became operational in January 2002. Debmarine Namibia mines in the off-shore mining

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Sep 04, 2018 Since operations began in 2002, Debmarine Namibia has extracted nearly 16 million carats of marine diamonds from the ocean. Each mining ship has a team of 120, with 60 people working on board for

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Oct 02, 2014 02 Oct, 2014. Meet Lerato Tsaoane, an inspiring woman, who manages a mining vessel and a crew of 106 people, sailing off the coast of Namibia and into the Atlantic Ocean in search of diamonds. For millions of years, the Orange River has been carrying diamonds from the centre of South Africa to the Atlantic coastline

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THE PRIDE OF NAMIBIA'S MINING. Namdeb is a wholly owned subsidiary of Namdeb Holdings (Proprietary) Limited Holdings which is owned in equal shares (50:50) by the Government of the Republic of Namibia and De Beers Group. Namdeb performs land-based prospecting (exploration), mining and rehabilitation operation and services for Namdeb Holdings

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afrol News - Marine diamond mining off Namibia resumed. ... 2008 - Transhex - A diamond Mining ship from Luderitz, Namibia sold to an oil & gas company in Russia – sold for US$4 million (R36 million at time of sale)... Read more. Hughes Mining Barge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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May 23, 2019 Diamond mining moves offshore and into the deep. Of the coast of Namibia, in barely 200 meters of water, an entirely different kind of deep-sea mining is taking shape. The target is neither precious metals, rare earth elements, or the minerals destined to supply next-generation batteries and power cells, but diamonds

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May 31, 2019 Alluvial diamond mining on land on the west coast of Namibia started over 110 years in 1908. Over time, many mines on land have reached end-of-life while marine diamond recovery is, relatively speaking, still at its beginning stages. A Debmarine Namibia ‘life of mine’ is expected to be 31 years to 2050, meaning there is much to gain

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Namibia. Economy 2020. Namibia’s economy is heavily dependent on the extraction and processing of minerals for export. Mining accounts for about 12.5% of GDP, but provides more than 50% of foreign exchange earnings. Rich alluvial diamond deposits make Namibia a primary source for gem-quality diamonds

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Jul 01, 2017 De Beers, which historically dominated global diamond production, purchased mining rights to more than 3,000 square miles of the Namibian seafloor in

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These diamonds are now being mined off the coast of South Africa and even off the coast of Namibia where they have been carried by strong longshore currents and wave action. Seafloor mining off the coast of Namibia: Some of the seafloor mining for diamonds off the coast of Namibia is done using small boats such as the ones shown in the photo

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Jun 13, 2019 The Orapa diamond mine is located 240km west of Francistown, central Botswana. The open-pit mine was estimated to contain 131.2Mct of proven and probable reserves as of December 2018. Producing since 1971, Orapa is the oldest of the four diamond mines operated by Debswana

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Coastal ships fitted with vacuum suction tubes for marine mining. Deposits of diamonds found in marine bodies are a result of kimberlite pipe erosion. When heavy rain occurs, the exposed diamonds are washed into rivers and carried towards the coast. Namibia is a country that holds the biggest quantity of gem quality marine deposits in the world

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Mar 01, 2007 NamDeb, Namibia's largest diamond miner, produced 2m carats in 2006 and has pledged to maintain the target for the coming four years. NamDeb's subsidiary, NamGem produced more than 1m carats of marine gems in 2006, setting a record for marine diamond mining

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afrol News, 16 November - After some declining years and an impression that the diamond age in Namibia's economy were fading out, gems are making a comeback. Last available statistics show that the Namibian gem trade has boomed by 26 percent since mid-2005, and the industry keeps investing in diamond mining

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afrol News, 31 January - The government of Namibia has entered into a new agreement with diamond monopolist De Beers over Namibian diamond sales until 2013, with conditions significantly improving for Namibia each time they have been renegotiated since colonial times. Partly state-owned Namdeb will get a larger share of the downstream industry and diamond trade through the deal

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Sep 24, 2015 The majority of diamond mining in Namibia is marine mining, along the coast and a few km west into the sea. CDM was granted its first offshore mining license in 1961. This led to the development several innovations for mining in this new environment, including vacuum extractors, dredgers, floating treatment plants and probe drilling platforms

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Marine Diamond Mining The near-shore and shelf environments of the Benguela Current region hold rich reserves of minerals, particularly diamonds. Namibia has the richest marine diamond deposits in the world, with an estimated reserve of over 1.5 billion carats

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