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How we did it

Over 3500 carats recovered by recent bulk survey on Diamond Lakes

The Team

Meet the Bloodless Diamonds team

Using mining to fund education in Africa.

The most valuable resource that comes out of Africa is her Youth

Indiana James and the Legend of Diamond Lakes

James Campbell is somewhat of a celebrity in the world of geology, geophysics and diamonds. In Southern Africa, he is a legend in the diamond exploration and diamond mine development world. He is a graduate of the illustrious Imperial College in London with a degree in Mining Exploration and Geology. He did his honours project on what was to become the Venetia Mine while it was still an exploration project. This laid the foundation for him to go to work at DeBeers after his graduation.

Post university he was schooled in the big leagues within DeBeers, where he began a career which has been regularly punctuated by massive achievements. He worked at DeBeers for 21 years and rose to the position of General Manager in charge of Advanced Exploration and DeBeers Laboratories around the World. During his stint at DeBeers, he even worked as Nikki Oppenheimer’s personal assistant for several years.

He eventually launched into a career outside of DeBeers and successfully ran several prominent diamond junior companies, starting with African Diamonds and the development of the Karowe mine...

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Mat Roux and Sons Diamond Mining

On the Mat Roux and Sond Diamond Mine, after the shutdown caused by the covid 19 pandemic, operations are finally restarting. The rich high quality Manganese deposits to the South of the mine have a contractor on site and they are in the process of setting up and soon to increase production to a sustainable exportable quantity of high grade manganese.

The Dredger Project has gone from an idea to actual working model in 5 years. It has not only made previous technically and logistically difficult virgin diamond gravels on the mine, to now be accessible, but to also be able to recover the diamonds without the use of any chemicals except electricity, and replacing a previous high diesel consuming industry with a complete electricity driven option that could run off a mini-solar grid on the mine. The crowd funding capital raise for Diamond Lakes entails developing a larger, more efficient dredger to mine the base of the Legendary Pienaars Pothole.

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Better Life Diamond Mine

This project is being developed as a unique model based on socially sound principles that will empower and benefit the local community by funding education and social development and generate revenue for the local communities as well as the mines equity holders.

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Watch a video of the manganese production site

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African Diamonds and Gold

Leveraging mining to fund education.

Gold and Diamonds from Africa have for centuries enormously benefited a small elite outside of Africa; often through the detriment of the continent, its people, land, animals and water. We have a company policy to adhere strictly to the social and ethical principles expected of Impact investing. One fundamental priority of the group and company is capitalizing on and investing in Africa’s most valuable resource- It’s youth!!

We intend on leveraging mining investment capital to do two things; the first to generate shareholder and investor revenue using sustainable and environmentally sound mining operations and the second is to use capital income from mining to subsidize student education throughout Southern and Eastern Africa. We aim to show that it can be done and then to challenge every corporate to do the same. The financing of Africa’s youth is expected to deliver far bigger returns than an investment in gold or diamonds. We intend investing in all three, gold, diamonds and Africa’s youth.

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800

percent expected growth over the next 5 years

500

students/scholars to be assisted by the end of 2026

5

resources extracted

  • Manganese
  • Diamonds
  • Agates
  • Crushed stone
  • Building sand

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    50

    years and more of mining in the area

    Bloodless Diamonds Operations

    It all started when Mat Roux Senior acquired the mine Elandsputte in the last century. Daan is Mat’s son and has mined in the area for more than 50 years. He has seen Pienaars pothole on the Diamond lakes mine been mined by draining the water on a continuous basis and using conventional earthmoving equipment through to the use of a dredger with suction pump brought up from the West Coast Marine waters. There has been large areas of virgin diamond gravels on the mine Mat Roux and Sons and Diamond Lakes that have been inaccessible for almost a century of diamonds having discovered in the area. This is traditionally the richest alluvial diamond run of the last century. An incredible amount of diamonds are recorded to have been recovered from the mine. Although there are large areas of relatively superficial gravels on both mines, the intrigue of these previously untouched areas are what inspired Dann to design and develop the Dredger Project.

    In Pursuit of Dragon’s Blood

    The Story of Diamond Lakes

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    Watch a video with the dredger in action

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    Meet Our Founder

    Dr Navin Naidoo

    Navin is a Medical Doctor, Lawyer and entrepreneur. He has been involved in the Lichtenburg Projects as a Director of all three mines since 2006. He works as a GP and Emergency Medicine Consultant in Queensland Australia and does specialized medicolegal consulting to health professional on a global platform. He is involved in medical education with an emphasis on medico-legal issues.

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    Meet Our Ops Manager and Director Representative

    Theo Roux

    Theo Roux is the Operations Manager and Director Representative on all 3 mines.

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