Stellar increases mining capacity to boost Guinea output

Aim-listed Stellar Diamonds said on Thursday that it had, as planned, introduced additional earth moving equipment at its Mandala and Bomboko sites in Guinea during the last quarter. The company added four 30-t articulated dump trucks, two...

Stellar Diamonds to increase production at Guinea mines

Aim-listed Stellar Diamonds was acquiring additional mining equipment to further boost production and processing capacity at its Mandala and Bomboko diamond mines, in Guinea, the company reported on Monday. Among other equipment, it would install...

West African Diamonds announces Sierra Leone JV

Aim-listed diamond miner West African Diamonds (WAD) has formed a joint venture with a private Japanese/Sierra Leone company, Thunderball, to explore and, if justified, to develop a mine in and around the diamondiferous pipe 3 kimberlite in the...

Guinea diamond mine in commissioning phase

Precious metals company West African Diamonds is currently commissioning the Bomboko alluvial mine, in Guinea, says West African Diamonds chairperson John Teeling.

West African to start Guinea alluvial diamond-mining in April

Production at the Bomboko alluvial diamond mine, in Guinea, would start in April, exploration company West African Diamonds announced on Wednesday. The company, which had operations in Sierra Leone and Guinea, said in a statement to shareholders...

West African Diamonds to start production at Guinea alluvial mine

Diamond and gold producer West African Diamonds (WAD) on Tuesday stated that production would start at its Bomboko alluvial diamond mine, in Guinea, in March. WAD chairperson John Teeling noted that all necessary equipment was already on site,...

Sierra Leone president sees gold output within 6 months

Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma told Reuters on Monday he expected the West African country to begin mining its first commercial quantities of gold within six months. The former British colony is slowly recovering from a 1991-2002...

Company Announcement: Preliminary Results for Year Ended 30 June 2007

Attached please find a press release on: Since establishment in 2001 African Diamonds (AFD) has spent a total of £7m to acquire, a 28.38% interest in the AK6 diamond mine development in Botswana, a 30% interest in Atlas the AFD/De Beers...

West African Diamonds secures Guinea prospecting permit

Aim-listed diamond explorer West African Diamonds has acquired a 22-km2 exploration permit in south-eastern Guinea, the company said on Wednesday.

New MD for African-focused gem junior

London- and Botswana-listed diamond explorer African Diamonds has appointed Kevin Dabinett, formerly COO and CEO of Petra Diamonds, as the new MD of wholly-owned subsidiary West African Diamonds (WAD).