JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – London-listed diamond producer Gem Diamonds on Monday said two contract workers died at its Ghaghoo underground mine project, in Botswana, when the ground collapsed at the face of the tunnel development.
The combination of the fatalities – the mine’s first in 2012 – and adverse ground conditions, was expected to delay the start of first diamond production until the first half of 2014.
Production at the Ghaghoo mine, which is located about 200 km north of Gaborone and falls within the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, was initially anticipated to start during the third quarter of 2013 at an initial rate of 100 000 ct/y, to be increased over time to a peak of 780 000 ct/y. Read more here...
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