pAfri-Can Marine Minerals Corporation has raised $1,990,613 million from the exercise of 12,935,750 share purchase warrants expiring on February 25th, 2010, 100,000 share purchase warrants expiring on January 26th, 2011 and 235,000 share purchase warrants expiring on May 6th, 2011. The share purchase warrants were exercised at a price of $0.15 each, and the number [...]
Africa
Afri-Can to Commence Diamond Sampling Program on Block J in Namibia
Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corporation (Afri-Can) reports that International Mining and Dredging Holding Ltd (IMDH) has confirmed that testing of DP The Explorer is now nearing completion, and it will be ready to commence sampling activities as soon as the Government of Namibia’s Ministry of Home Affairs issues the requisite permits for Afri-Can’s geologists to join [...]
Africa
Afri-Can Revises and Increases Target Areas for Diamond Sampling on Block J in Namibia
Canada’s Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corporation (TSX VENTURE: AFA)(FRANKFURT: AJF) announces that following the acquisition of data from a regional geophysical survey carried out in 2007 by International Mining and Dredging Holding Ltd (IMDH), Afri-Can’s geological team, in conjunction with its consultant Zstar Mineral Resource Consultants (Zstar), have revised and increased the surface of the target [...]
Africa
Afri-Can Marine Agreement on Sampling Block J Marine Diamond Concession in Namibia with International Mining and Dredging Holding Amended
diamond news – mining news: Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corporation says that the agreement previously reported on December 10, 2009 regarding sampling of its 70%-owned Block J marine diamond concession in Namibia with International Mining and Dredging Holding Ltd. (IMDH) has been amended and has been approved by the TSX Venture Exchange.
The salient features of [...]
Africa
X-Ray Body Scanning Technology Can Discover Diamonds, Synthetic Material, Drugs, Explosives and Metals
DebTech, the research and development arm of De Beers, has developed body scanning technology which is currently used on De Beers mines in South Africa and Namibia. De Beers makes the body scanning technology available to the market.
Scannex is a low X-ray dose, full-body scanner with an X-ray exposure small enough to allow for a [...]
Africa
Namibia’s Diamond Manufacturers Association Joins IDMA
Members of the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA) voted to accept the Diamond Manufacturers Association of Namibia (DiaMAN) as the organization’s 15th member. The decision was made at the 2009 Presidents’ Meeting held in Antwerp in November. Namibia is the third African country to obtain membership in IDMA.
DiaMAN’s president, Burhan Seber, thanked the IDMA members [...]
Canada
Lucara Diamond Appoints Tony George VP Development
Diamond miner Lucara Diamond Corp. announces that Mr. Anthony (Tony) George, P.Eng has joined Lucara as VP Development effective as of January 4, 2010. Mr. George is a mining engineer with over 27 years of experience in operations, design and construction. He commenced his career with De Beers in South Africa and later transferred to [...]
Africa
Eli Izhakoff Address to Kimberley Process Plenary: ‘Perceived Dithering’ over Zimbabwe is Bad For All
Following are extracts from Eli Izhakoff’s address, presented by Andrew Bone on his behalf, at the recent Kimberley Process Plenary in Swakopmund, Namibia.
“None of the issues we will discuss this week are new. In fact, many of them have been on the agenda for quite a while. Some might say too long.
Right now, the world [...]
Africa
EU: Kimberley Process Plenary Meeting Further Strengthens International Efforts to combat trade with conflict diamonds
The European Community (EC) fully endorses the decisions adopted at the Kimberley Process’ Swakopmund Plenary meeting, and in particular the KP decision and action plan agreed to addressZimbabwe’s non-compliance in the Marange mining area. Zimbabwe’s commitment to undertake a series of ambitious actions to bring diamond mining in Marange in compliance with the minimum requirements and to subject [...]
Africa
Canada Urges Zimbabwe to Implement Kimberley Process Work Plan
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has urged Zimbabwe to implement the Kimberley Process Plenary work plan aimed at bringing the country into compliance with Kimberley Process standards in diamond production. The plan was endorsed by Plenary participants, including Canada, in Swakopmund, Namibia, on November 5.
“The success of the work plan rests squarely on the [...]
Industry News
Israel to Head Kimberley Process in 2010
At the latest meeting of the Kimberley Process, which took place in Namibia on Thursday, November 5, 2009, Israel was elected to assume the Chairmanship from 2010. Boaz Hirsch, Deputy Director General for Foreign Trade at Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, will officially serve as Chair.
Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Benjamin Ben-Eliezer [...]
Americas
United States Remains ‘Deeply Concerned’ about Human Rights Abuses in the Diamond Regions of Zimbabwe
In light of serious concerns about Zimbabwe’s compliance with the Kimberley Process (KP) rough diamond certification scheme, a spokesman for the United States Department of State says that the Dept awaits full and expeditious implementation of the stringent controls for exports of rough diamonds from Zimbabwe’s Marange fields that were agreed at the KP Plenary [...]
