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    Billions of Dollars to be invested in massive diamond mine by Botswana‘s Debswana

    Posted On 24 Apr 2021
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
    Comments: 8

    By Abdul Rahman Bangura–

    Photo Credit: Mining Technology

    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Debswana Diamond Co will expend 65-billion pula (about R85bn) to assemble the world’s biggest underground diamond mine at Botswana’s Jwaneng, which is already the wealthiest mine by value for the previous stones. Thus, the mine will have a capacity of as much as nine million carats per year, increasing Jwaneng’s lifespan by twenty years.

    The underground mine will retain more than 360km of subway improvement and will hit full production by 2034, Debswana’s Head of Transformation and Innovation, Thabo Balopi, announced at a briefing in Gaborone on April 23rd, 2021.

    “We are still doing the studies toward transforming to an underground producer, which is a very different environment, with different capabilities and mindset,” he stated.

    Getting on underground will be a “hurdle” for the group, which has regulated entirely as an open-pit miner since its establishment in the 1970s, according to Acting Managing Director – Lynette Armstrong.

    “It’s a huge undertaking,” she said during the briefing.

    The board of Debswana — a 50-50 cooperative investment between De Beers and Botswana — is yet to make an ultimate development on how to finance the project, according to Head of Technical Services Len Dimbungu. The previous extension at Jwaneng had a 24-billion pula budget and modified the mine into one of the world’s largest open-pit diamond operations.

    Diamond mining has traditionally fixed the Southern African nation’s economy, reckoning for the bulk of budget revenue and foreign-exchange receipts. Jwaneng, in operation since 1982, has been improved many times as its reserves decreased over the years. The mine is critical to De Beers, and produced 7.5-million carats of the group’s 2020 output of 2.1-million carats. Jwaneng produced 3.2-million carats in the first quarter, or 41% of De Beers’ total production.

     

    For New Africa Business News (NABN) Abdul Rahman Bangura Reports,  Africa Correspondent

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    8 Comments

    1. Nobel April 24, 2021 at 2:59 am Reply

      Thank you for the report. Our government’s natural resource policies is one of the best. They not letting lotters come and rob us of our diamonds. Nobel in Gaborone

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    2. Azuel April 24, 2021 at 3:10 am Reply

      We are going to have the capability of producing billions of dollars worth of diamonds per year, good for our people. Kanye BOTSWANA. Azuel

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    3. Ahmed April 24, 2021 at 3:15 am Reply

      Thank you for the beautiful newsletters. Ahmed in Dubai

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    4. Paul April 24, 2021 at 3:19 am Reply

      Girls best friend diamond is mainly mine in Africa. Paul in Nairobi, Kenya

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