Botswana Diamonds Share Discussion Threads

[ukgeorge] 06/10/2017 17:03

I've just got a cup of tea

[thecynical1] 06/10/2017 16:44

Anybody holding Tsodilo on here?

[thecynical1] 06/10/2017 16:06

I am slowly getting to the point where they need to get on with it..... Lot more gray hair now than there was in the AFD days....

[thecynical1] 06/10/2017 16:06

We can dream....... : )

[chapchip] 06/10/2017 16:05

one day TC1

[thecynical1] 06/10/2017 15:58

Chapchip..... :)

[chapchip] 06/10/2017 15:48

Lordz....that wasn t WOW, if you are a LUC holder and having waited almost 2 years for it to sell at almost 50% below the expected value, however, the gross receipts from that one stone were more than LUC paid for the whole mine, and with the proceeds of two other large stones, all infrastructure and plant upgrades.

So in essence if BOD were to stumble across anything similar well all be millionaires rodney

[lordz] 06/10/2017 15:12

Yes higher risks with previous experience and knowledge from De Beers. Greater licenses too.

[markfrankie] 06/10/2017 15:00

lordz you are preaching to the converted here.... quite a few of us here are in BOD and LUC and TSODILO courtesy of previous holdings
bod have great potential but greater risk than luc

[lordz] 06/10/2017 14:42

There are high value diamonds recovered from Orapa and Karowe mine by Lucara. Check out the website big job going on there for 6 years. With new recovery machinery .

[lordz] 06/10/2017 14:12

If you look at BOD website on, media then events look at 12th June 2917 meeting. It's at the Tsodilo room in Gaborone in S.Africa. Strange.

[thecynical1] 06/10/2017 13:34

Missed that. Thanks.

[markfrankie] 06/10/2017 13:20

Lucara announced it a wee while back thecynical1, chapchip isn't it funny the circles we go through... our MS is at tsodilo

[lordz] 06/10/2017 13:07

Chapchip it's on Tsodilo website under investors.

[thecynical1] 06/10/2017 13:03

Chapchip. Where did you find that? Very interesting-do you have a link?

[chapchip] 06/10/2017 11:39

Lucara is an investor in Tsodilo and has first rights on buy out should the licence throw up something worth mining

[lordz] 06/10/2017 11:06

SADC forecasts mining boom by 2017Ngoni ChiutsiMonday, 18 September 2017Orapa mine ore of Debswana assets.Orapa mine ore of Debswana assets.Urges member states to upgrade their transport networksSeveral companies explore mineral assetsAn expert has urged Botswana to move with speed to upgrade her transport network and facilities as there are high chances of an increase in traffic volumes due to expected increase in mining activities in the next decade within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.Programme Manager & Technical Adviser for the Tripartite, Transport and Trade Facilitation Programme [TTTFP] in the SADC Secretariat's Infrastructure & Services Directorate, Lovemore Bingandadi, said the region should brace itself for an increase in traffic volumes.He said this is likely to be the case particularly in Botswana which has many mining projects in the pipeline and would need proper transport network to carry the mining materials. Bingandadi said although currently there is adequate transport infrastructure to carry some of the mineral output mined in Botswana when using Durban or Beira routes, by either road or rail, there is likely to be challenge if it is not upgraded in the coming ten years. He said they did a 15-year projection of up to year 2027 and envisioned that there is going to be a boom in economies leading to more activities in the transport business. "When the country starts fully exploiting a significant portion of the vast mineral particularly coal reserves that Botswana has, then under that scenario, we will start running out of capacity, especially port capacity in the region," said Bingandadi. Several companies are currently eyeing Botswana's mineral assets such as coal, diamonds and coal bed methane.Bingandadi said the countries are responding to those possible future challenges as the Walvis Bay and Durban ports are currently being upgraded. The official also added that Mozambique is also developing three more ports in addition to Maputo, Beira and Nakala."All this is in anticipation of the growth of traffic to the year 2027 and if those ports are expanded by the date, then we'll no longer feel that constraint," said the SADC expert. He said authorities always face a dilemma on whether to take a supply driven approach or demand driven approach when setting up transport network."Transport is a challenge in the sense that you have to make a decision to say 'do you wait for the demand to be created before you respond and provide the transport infrastructure or first construct it hoping that it will stimulate the mining sector to move into production.' "So that is the biggest challenge that any country faces when it comes to the provision of transport," he said. Bingadadi mentioned that when the Botswana government constructed the Trans Kalahari road it led to a dramatic increase in transport volumes. "When the Trans Kalahari road was constructed, the vehicle count was less than 20 per day and most people thought it was madness including the World Bank but years later we now have more traffic that now justifies the investment that was made to stimulate trade between Botswana and Namibia and even now South Africa is using that corridor to import and export its products," said Bingandadi.

[lordz] 06/10/2017 10:50

Looks like every diamond mining company is drilling at previous De Beers diamond sites with the latest technologies.

[lordz] 06/10/2017 09:44

If you you look at BOD licence area on their website and look at Tsodilo licence area they are very close. They could be on to something big in Orapa.

[lordz] 06/10/2017 09:37

Here you can see another mining company in the same region as BOD close to Lucara . I presume BOD is somewhere there . Good chance of finding diamonds.

[fenners66] 05/10/2017 15:40

There have been just 12 reported trades all day.
I suspect the MM's have more likely fallen asleep and are ignoring this than doing anything else.....zzzzzzzzzzz

[novicetrade68] 05/10/2017 15:10

Looks like Mms are trying to encourage sellers by droping the bid on a small sale, but you can still not buy quantity and sell at 2.15p if need be.