Angolan state diamond company Endiama said that, thanks to newly discovered kimberlites Luashe (Luaxe), which is already considered the largest kimberlite mine country, it will be possible to double the production of diamonds by 2022.
Currently, Angola produces 8 million carats per year.
Luashe was designed to have an annual output of 8 million to 10 million carats.
"We are currently producing 8 million carats per year, and thanks to kimberlites Luashe we're going to double production in the next five years", - said director general of the national diamond company of Angola, Endiama Sumbula Carlos (Carlos Sumbula) at a conference in Cape Town.
Luashe was found Endiama and Alrosa of Russia in 2015.
Kimberlite is larger than the field Katoka (Catoca), which is currently producing about 80% of the total volume of diamond mining in Angola.
Catoca is also the fourth-largest kimberlite in the world.
ALROSA President Andrew Zharkov said in September last year that production on the diamond Luashe project will begin within three to four years.
According to him, capital investment in the project for the entire period of its operation is estimated at $ 1 billion.
At the same time for the entire 30-year life cycle of the mine on it, it is expected to produce about 350 million carats.
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Lucapa Diamond received another 14 special diamonds, including a 74.5-carat stone, during the ore mining and processing operations at Block 8 of the Lulo diamond project in Angola.
The size of all mined diamonds exceeds 10.8 carats, and a 74.5 carat diamond was identified as a type IIa stone of color D. It became the fourth largest stone in Lulo, the company said in a statement.
"Block 8 not only provides a steady flow of large and valuable diamonds, but also provides our geologists with important indications of the location of the kimberlite source of these exceptional alluvial diamonds," said Lucapa CEO Stephen Wetherall. "It is for this reason that the L259 kimberlite, As we found out, is adjacent to Block 8, On average, the price of diamonds from the project at the current moment reaches 4,500 Australian dollars per carat.
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