Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry.
This week:
Exploration, junior culture needed to save mining
Young HDSA diamond beneficiators doing well
And, Diamond exploration intensifying close to mine that paid for itself in 3.5 days
Unless South Africa starts exploring again and finds new ore deposits, the country will continue to turn out the lights of the mining sector.
Resources consultant Dr John Bristow:
The model launched last year by De Beers for the development of young historically disadvantaged South Africans as diamond beneficiators is proving highly successful.
De Beers Senior VP Sightholder Sales South Africa Mpumi Zikalala:
London- and Botswana-listed Botswana Diamonds, which is funding diamond exploration on three sites in South Africa, expects to declare an inferred resource by year-end at its Thorny River project in Limpopo.
Botswana Diamonds MD James Campbell:
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