Angolan diamond sector pushing hard to meet its proper potential
Today 05 december 2011 Angola has a huge wealth of mineral resources but, almost a decade after the end of a crippling civil war, it has yet to map them out and take advantage of the natural treasures, Antwerp Facets says. If there was a title for under-performer in the diamond producing sector, the perennial winner would almost undoubtedly have been Angola. With abundant alluvial deposits and literally hundreds of kimberlite formations dotting a fault line that runs from the from Huila and Benguela provinces in the southwest, to the Huambo and Bie provinces, to the Luanda Sul and Lunda Norte...