They call it "diamond road", the richest road in the world can be in Angola
New JornalPublicado 10/4/2016 10:21
After all, the road to the Treasury's own road. At least that's what is convinced the Australian Lucapa Diamond Company, majority partner In mine, in Lunda Norte, which has provided the largest and finest gems never found in Angola. The company suspects it in landfills and aggregates used to build the access road to the mine are some of the largest diamonds in the world. And is already preparing for the sweep.
Earlier this year, the Lucapa announced to the world the discovery of a diamond with 404 carats, the largest and most valuable ever found in Angola, which was sold for about $ 20,000,000, and, since then, follow the discoveries of unique gems, the last for days, with 172 carats. But what if this kind of "stones" were just offal among the giants that still have In to marvel at the international jewellery?
Apparently, Yes, that's exactly what the Lucapa is waiting to happen, and, according to the Australian Press, equipped already In mine with machinery which allows the detection of diamonds with very large, up to 1000 carats, when currently available equipment allows only detect mechanically diamonds until approximately 280 carats.
This mine, known among specialists and that often arises in the publications most recognised the diamond industry, is not as good producer in quantity, it is place of extraction of a few diamonds but huge and extremely high quality.
Given this, according to Lucapa left know the Australian journalists, the road that gives access to the mine In may as well, within a short time, be considered to be the most valuable road worldwide and already call it "Diamond Highway".
Everything, because, without at the time if he had knowledge of it, the inert used for its construction, collected in the neighborhood, may contain some of the largest diamonds and of better quality than the world has ever seen.
But, to get the clean this possibility, the Australian company that runs In mine with the Angolan and dealership Endiama and Rosa & Petals as partners, will begin to "sift" literally the road ...
For now, still not provide In the largest in the world, but may have given some of unsurpassed quality, as was the case of the latest, that, with 172 carats and weighing 35 grams, was described as "outstanding" and "almost pure" State, leaving experts baffled about to be who already argue that the mine might exceed in value and the most famous fame of Botswana.
The quality of the stones is such that In the international market already pays the carat extracted this mine 20 times more expensive than the world average, which is about 120 u.s. dollars, while those to be worth more than $ 2000.
The adjectives used to describe Sparkle In diamonds were all exhausted itself, exceptional, extraordinary, wonderful, magnificent. But the best may be yet to come in and out of the rubble ... literally.
An example of the value of the diamonds are In the $ 32,000,000 that have already entered the coffers of Lucapa since the beginning of this year, having the 404 diamond carats, sold to the Swiss jeweler De Grisogono surrendered almost 20,000,000 dollars and the latest to be on the verge of surrender more than eight million.
Currently, Miles Kennedy, non-Executive Chairman of Lucapa Diamond Company, Australian multinational In mine operator, in partnership with the Angolan Endiama and Rosa & petals, says only that "it's definitely a very, very special stone which will make a lot of money".
October, the month of the giant gems?
It is already next month that the Lucapa will begin to sift through the road In Access, with the hope of finding the desired built-in or hidden amid giant boulders collected in the vicinity of the mine to build the road.
According to Lucapa, the point is that the equipment until now used, with the detection of the gems made through a screen designed for that purpose, may be letting those giants undetected.
To find them, the company changed equipment and, after having found, in February the giant 404 carats, was piling up the inert until the new equipment is installed to be passed with a fine-tooth comb, like the rubble used in the construction of access roads to the mine In.
Quoted by The Australian, Miles Kennedy, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lucapa already dubbed the road concerned as "highways of diamonds"
"It will be very interesting to know what these materials stacked in will provide, but we're pretty confident that we will find some diamonds. We're going to have to wait to see, "added Kennedy.
Sure there is, for now. The mine is to render between five to 12,000,000 u.s. dollars per month in diamonds for an operating cost of about 1, 3,000,000, "that's awesome," admits Miles Kennedy.
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