Since the beginning of August, junior Canadian mining company Diamcor Mining Incorporated has unearthed “several thousand individual diamonds” from their Krone-Endora project.

The company made this announcement last Thursday in a press release.

Krone-Endora is situated directly next to De Beers’ Venetia Mine in the Limpopo valley. Last month, the company started a 200-ton-per-hour modular processing plant to evaluate operational efficiencies of the in-quarry screening equipment, assess processing capacities and assist them in determining modifications required to enhance the project if needed.

Until the end of August, Diamcor has recovered individual diamonds with a total combined weight, before acidizing, of approximately 1 214.86 carats. Of these, the company was very pleased to note that 85 rough diamonds were 1 carat or larger.

Because these diamonds only came from the lower-grade areas of Krone-Endora, the company now plans to carry out bulk sampling programmes in new areas of the project that were not previously accounted for in their initial report.

In the meantime, Diamcor anticipates moving to full-scale mining once the Department of Mineral Resources has finalised its application for a New Mining Right Order.