Angolan Mining Oil & Gas

Canadian diamond mining company Diamcor Mining, which owns and operates the Krone-Endora at Venetia mine, in South Africa’s Limpopo province, plans to complete a term loan financing of up to C$5-million. The proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, the deployment of additional operational equipment to support increased processing volumes, the continued advancement of the work programmes currently under way at Krone-Endora and to provide the company with additional working capital to offset the timeframes associated with the

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HB Antwerp, a Belgian gem processor and trader, said that one of its founding members who was fired last month has been reinstated, amid a pending deal with Botswana for the supply of rough stones. Oded Mansori was reinstated as managing partner and director and all four of the company’s founding partners have moved past “internal differences of the last several weeks”, HB Antwerp said in a statement issued late on Monday. The three-year-old company said last month

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Diamond mining company Lucara Diamond today, October 2nd announced the resignation of CFO Zara Boldt and VP of technical services John Armstrong. Boldt will step down with effect from December 29, and Armstrong will resign on December 1. The company did not name successors for either Boldt or Armstrong. Lucara, which owns the Karowe mine in Botswana, in August reappointed William Lamb as CEO, when Eira Thomas resigned.

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 Botswana’s government is reassessing a proposed deal with HB Antwerp after Lucara Diamond terminated its sales agreement with the Belgian gem trader, citing financial irregularities, President Mokgweetsi Masisi said last week. Lucara Diamond said on Thursday it had ended its agreement with HB Trading BV, a unit of HB Antwerp, following what it called “a material breach of financial commitments by HB”. HB did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In March Botswana, the world’s

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