The National Company for Prospecting, Exploration, Lapidation and Marketing of Diamonds in Angola (ENDIAMA) will create a database on the country’s diamond production. Speaking to the press, on the sidelines of the opening of the workshop on Data Integration and Information on Diamond Projects in Angola, which takes place in Luanda, the chairman of the Board of Directors of ENDIAMA, Ganga Júnior, said that the process is already underway, and will be implemented through the
Africa’s vast hydrocarbon resources present an opportunity for the continent to secure its energy supply, improve energy access and drive socioeconomic development. With the continent’s oil and gas industry rapidly expanding owing to increases in energy demand across the continent and at globe scale, the role local energy companies play in driving energy developments continues to expand. Global chemicals and energy company Sasol will be returning to this year’s edition of the African Energy Week
The Australian company Lucapa Diamond Company announced this Monday that it had discovered a 160-carat diamond in the same block from which it extracted the “Rosa do Lulo”, the 170-carat diamond discovered at the time in early August, having been considered the largest of this hue, found in 300 years. The new diamond, white, with superior quality of type IIa, is the 28th with more than 100 carats to be extracted from the Lulo Mine
A diamond over 150 carats was discovered in Lucapa, in the province of Lunda Norte, announced today the Lucapa Diamond Company, advances Agência Lusa. In the same block where the “Rosa do Lulo” was recently mined, with 170 carats, this becomes the sixth largest found in the mine in Capenda, Camulemba. According to the same source, the new diamond is white, with superior quality of the Ila type and is the 28th with more than
The global diamond industry continues to recover from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic during 2021, as a result of the cooling of economies and the adaptation of national markets. In the first half of the current year, according to the De Beers report, consumer sales of diamond jewelry in the United States of America and China recorded positive growth, not only in the revenues affected by Covid-19 in 2020, but also compared to 2019
In line with the mining operations in the provinces of Lundas Norte and Sul, we were able to witness the complexity of all the engineering work, developed with alluvial diamond deposits in mind, which became more valued from 2018 onwards, with the implementation of a new commercialization model, which eliminated the so-called “preferred customers”. The first stop was at N’zaji, municipality of Cambulo, base of operations of SMC (Sociedade Mineira do Chitotolo), since 1986, with
The Sociedade Mineira do Chitotolo (SMC) suspended operations in the areas of Chitotolo, Muyta and Sangulungu, keeping them in Maludi, which represents 40 percent of the activity of the consortium owned by Angola’s Endiama and Lumanhe, as well as Australia’s ITM. The partial interruption of operations was decided to comply with the restrictions imposed by the State of Emergency in force in the country since March 27, giving rise to authorization for home confinement for
Two projects are in pilot production, located in the province of Lunda Norte, the region where the largest number of mines and diamond projects are located, although Lunda Sul is the largest diamond producer in the country. There are a total of 42 projects participated by Endiama Mining. Of the 42 mining projects participated by Endiama Mining, the diamond operator of the Endiama group, 21 are at a standstill, five are in prospection and only 11
Australia’s Lucapa Diamond (ASX: LOM) has recovered a 160-carat white Type IIa diamond at its prolific Lulo mine in Angola, the sixth-largest recovered at the operation to date. The diamond was found at the same alluvial mining block as the Lulo Rose, a 170-carat pink-coloured diamond believed to be the largest of its kind found in Angola in 300 years. Lucapa has a 40% stake in the Lulo mine, which hosts the world’s highest dollar-per-carat alluvial diamonds. The rest is held
Australia’s Lucapa Diamond (ASX: LOM) has recovered a rare 170-carat pink diamond at its prolific Lulo mine, believed to be the largest of its kind found in Angola in the last 300 years. The massive pink stone named the “Lulo Rose” will be sold later this year through an international tender conducted by Angolan state-owned diamond trading firm Sodiam. Lucapa has a 40% stake in the Lulo mine, which hosts the world’s highest dollar-per-carat alluvial diamonds. The rest is
