Debswana studies Jwaneng mine

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Botswana diamond-miner Debswana, which is a joint venture between leading producer De Beers and the country's government, is conducting studies that could see it expanding its Jwaneng mine underground, or expanding the open pit even further, in a project called 'cut nine', it said on Monday.

Studies to either go underground or develop the cut nine were still in prefeasibility stages, and Jwaneng GM Balisi Bongyongo declined to provide estimates of what these projects could cost.

The company said previously that it planned to sink an exploratory shaft to at least 1,000 m, as part of the study to mine underground.

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