South Africa needs to find ways to build and sustain its alluvial diamond sector in particular, given this country’s “incredible” alluvial sector which hosts “exceptional” diamonds. Accompanying these comments to Mining Weekly by diamond luminary Dr John Bristow was a picture of a 176 ct white diamond probably carried down the Orange river from Lesotho and recovered by Namdeb in the offshore setting on the Namibian side of the West Coast. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)
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