Zimbabwe plans to produce 500 000 carats of diamonds per month in the Marange region (Marange) by the end of 2017, said Minister of Mines Chidakva Walter (Walter Chidhakwa).
According to the minister to Rough & Polished on the sidelines of the mining conference in Cape Town, Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) struggles to increase the availability of their equipment from the current 35% to 85%.
This, he said, will help to increase production.
"Since the beginning of January, we are discussing the desire to achieve a production volume of 500 000 carats per month", - he said.
"... If we can increase the system availability to [85%], and then update the resource base to the expected volumes, by the middle of the year we should get about 300 000 - 400 000 carats per month by the end of the year - and 500 000 ", - added the Minister.
Diamond mining in Marange was falling since the beginning of last year, due to the forced consolidation of mining companies.
ZCDC produced about 900,000 carats last year against the earlier peak of about 12 million carats per year.
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