Sentences with phrase «kimberlite mining»

For those countries, which have suffered through wars and the Ebola epidemics, kimberlite mining could offer revenue without great damage to the environment, Shirey says.

Kimberlite mines tend to be narrow and vertical, with much smaller footprints than, say, open - pit copper mines, and their effluent — ground - up kimberlite — is benign.

Not exact matches

Bevington, though, has long expected the industry would consolidate as mines aged and production shifted to less lucrative kimberlite bodies.

But as Lucara has continued to process kimberlite, the igneous rock that sometimes contains diamonds, the company has been able to show a random distribution of very large stones in the mine's south lobe.

10-24-2001 Kimberlite Sample Yields Significant Diamond Results 09-07-2001 Kimberlite Discovered On Kikerk Lake Property 08-29-2001 Financing Completed and 2nd Quarter Results 07-18-2001 Caledonia Acquires The Strategic Konkola West Prospecting Licence In Zambia [See Map as well] 07-05-2001 Caledonia Mining Corporation Announces the J.V. with Ashton is to Drill the Kikerk Lake Diamond Property 06-12-2001 Caledonia [CAL - TSE; CALVF - Nasdaq] signs option to aquire an interest in platinum and diamond properties 06-06-2001 Caledonia [CAL - TSE; CALVF - Nasdaq] commissions metallurgical test 06-05-2001 Financial goals achieved by Caledonia [CAL - TSE; CALVF - Nasdaq] 04-19-2001 Caledonia announces financing and the cancellation of the Spring Hills Agreements 03-27-2001 News Release Caledonia Mining Corporation March 27, 2001

But the new plant, identified as Pandanus candelabrum, is the first indicator species for diamond - bearing kimberlite, says Stephen Haggerty, a researcher at Florida International University in Miami and the chief exploration officer of Youssef Diamond Mining Company, which owns mining concessions in LiMining Company, which owns mining concessions in Limining concessions in Liberia.