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Angola
Botswana Diamonds eyes Angolan stones

South Africa's Vutomi Mining, a subsidiary of John Teeling's Botswana Diamonds, has created a new Angolan investment structure. This comes as international investors are making a comeback in the country. [...]

Published on 08.12.2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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African Diamonds
Alrosa
Baroville Trade and Investments 02
Botswana Diamonds
Charl Nienaber
De Beers
Dennis Kgotli Dikgoro Kekana
Diamexstrat Botswana
Gem Diamonds
Jacques Nienaber
James Campbell
John Shelton
John Teeling
Lucapa Diamond Co
Lucara Diamond
Nicky Oppenheimer
Okwa Diamonds
Rio Tinto
Vast Resources
Vutomi Mining
Vutomi Mining Angola

In Focus | Angola, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe
Sanctions-hit Alrosa's woes impact on continent's diamond producers

The West's sanctions on the Russian mining colossus Alrosa, the world's largest diamond producer, are taking a huge toll on Angola, its main partner. That has left the field open for the world's second largest diamond producer, Botswana, to charge ahead.

Subscribers only Mining 23.05.2022

Angolan President Joao Lourenco (C) watches as Endiama CEO Jose Manuel Augusto Ganga Junior (L) shakes hands with Alrosa CEO Sergei Ivanov (R), in the Kremlin in Moscow, 4 April 2019.

Angola
Will Angolan diamonds of Russia's Alrosa soon be scrutinised by the Kimberley Process?

The risk of seeing diamonds produced by Russian group Alrosa, including in Angola, being used to finance Russia's war on Ukraine has brought a reaction from the civil society coalition monitoring implementation of the Kimberley Process.

Subscribers only Mining 21.03.2022

Angola, UAE
Lourenço's last try for Saurimo diamond hub success

During the Dubai Diamond Conference, the Angolan government will showcase its new Saurimo diamond hub, which has been slow in finding investors.

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2022

Southern Africa, United States
Tracr diamond tracking software battle resumes with De Beers and BCG lawsuit

After more than a year of waiting, a former BCG employee is resuming legal action against the company and De Beers over the development of its Tracr blockchain-based diamond tracking software, which he claims was based on the results of his doctoral research in the field.

Subscribers only Mining 02.02.2022

Namibia
Kalahari copperbelt fever slowly spreads to Namibia

There has been a flurry of activity in neighbouring Botswana since the beginning of this year, but now the Namibian section of the Kalahari copperbelt is also attracting increasingly active exploration projects.

Subscribers only Mining 17.12.2021

Botswana
Lawyer Rizwan Desai expands mining investments

Top lawyer Rizwan Desai, founding partner of the influential Gaborone law firm Desai Law Group, registered the company Mining and Power Resources on 29 November. He is the company's sole shareholder.

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2021

Angola
Luanda prospects for diamond financing

Buoyed by the opening of Alrosa's second kimberlite mine and Rio Tinto's arrival in the country's diamond sector, the Angolan authorities promoted themselves to international investors at a diamond industry conference in Saurimo.

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2021

Angola's Minister of Mines and Petroleum Diamantino Azevedo speaking at the Angola International Diamond Conference on 25 November 2021.

Inner circles | Africa, Portugal
Portugal pulls out the stops to safeguard its influence in lusophone Africa

Embassies, international bodies, military support, language ties... Portugal is using all the resources at its disposal to maintain its position in Africa, particularly in its former colonies, where it still has strong economic links. Its resources are limited, however.

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Portuguese prime minister Antonio Costa (right), with Angolan president João Lourenço, in 2018.

Angola
Sodiam inches toward opening its diamond training centre

The new diamond cutting and polishing training centre at the Saurimo diamond hub should soon be opening its doors and replacing the modest temporary facilities that have been housing some fifty students since the summer.

Subscribers only Mining 26.11.2021

Angola
Up for reelection, Lourenço makes diamond industry successes shine

The Angola International Diamond Conference will soon take place in the diamond hub of Saurimo to highlight the progress made in the industry since João Lourenço became president.

Subscribers only Mining 16.11.2021

Inner circles | Botswana
The "dynamic duo" behind John Teeling's mining and energy investments

Business magnate John Teeling's companies have been involved in a number of ventures in countries with challenging political environments, most of them in Africa. James Finn and David Horgan have played a discreet but key role in these high-risk ventures.

Subscribers only Mining 06.07.2020

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