De Beers to maine gold off SA west coast

DE BEERS and Anglo Ashanti are a third of the way into a joint venture agreement to search for gold and other metals off SA's west coast.

They are to use years of hard-won experience by the diamond producer in extracting diamonds from the sea.

De Beers Consolidated Mines, chaired by Barend Petersen and which is the South African division of the global diamond giant, De Beers, holds prospecting licences to search for metals off the west coast in water from 20m to 200m deep, the limit at which its underwater diamond mining technology functions.

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Closure as pain lingers

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