Stellar Diamonds

• 31/01/12

  Interim Results

• 19/01/12

  Tongo resource definition programme update

• 19/12/11

  Stellar Diamonds Droujba Microdiamond Results

• 28/11/11

  Droujba Kimberlite Pipe Update

• 10/11/11

  Result of AGM

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  19/01/12

  Stellar Diamonds shares rise after ‘excellent’ bulk sampling results at Tongo kimberlite

  Chief executive Karl Smithson described the bulk sampling results as excellent. The company also confirmed the project is on track for a maiden resource statement by the end of this quarter.

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  23/11/11

  Diamond fundamentals intact, says Northland

  Recent falls in the average price of diamonds in the UK should not deter investors in Stellar Diamonds and Petra Diamonds says broker Northland Capital.
  
  

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  17/10/11

  Stellar Diamonds shares surge after upbeat full-year results

  House broker Northland Capital Partners noted that the firm has substantial resources to progress its two key projects this year, and that these have “not been reflected in the valuation which is discounting little or no success”

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  16/08/11

  Stellar Diamonds pleases analysts with Tongo update

  Stellar Diamonds (LON:STEL) received the thumbs up from brokers as they welcomed news from the diamond miner that it has begun resource drilling at its high-grade Tongo kimberlite project in eastern Sierra Leone. Analysts reckon the well-funded company should be in a position to move two of its key projects towards JORC status in the first quarter of 2012 and rate its shares a ‘buy’.

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  23/06/11

  Stellar Diamonds enters a pivotal period of development; but is the market missing a trick?

  Stellar Diamonds’ £6.2 million cash call three months ago was a turning point for the company but one the market appears to have to have missed. The placing at 8 pence a share brought in a new cornerstone investor in Blackrock, and signalled the start of a very exciting phase of development for the group.

• 31/01/12

  Stellar Diamonds on track for maiden resource statements

• 19/01/12

  Stellar Diamonds describes latest Tongo drilling results as "excellent"

• 19/12/11

  Stellar Diamonds reveals encouraging results from microdiamond analysis on Droujba

• 28/11/11

  UPDATE: Stellar Diamonds completes resource drilling at Droujba

• 28/11/11

  Stellar Diamonds completes resource drilling at Droujba

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  22/07/2010

  Stellar Diamonds One2One Investor Presentation 22nd July 10 (PDF)

  Stellar Diamonds updates investors at the One2One Investor Forum on the 22nd July 10
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  10/08/2009

  John Teeling, Non-Executive Chairman of West African Diamonds, talks to Proactiveinvestors

  John Teeling, Non-Executive Chairman of West African Diamonds, talks to Proactiveinvestors

Overview 

• A leading West African diamond exploration, development and production company 

• Ten year track record of exploration, development and mining in Sierra Leone and 

Guinea

• Focussed on value creation through the development of high grade kimberlite projects

• Raised £6.2 million (before expenses) in March 2011

• Fully funded to define initial resources at Droujba and Tong

Stellar Diamonds' Projects

Sierra Leone

Kono 

• US$17 million spent to date – project almost fully capitalised

• Focus on high value Pol-K and Bardu kimberlites

• Underground trial mining of Pol-K at 65m depth (Level 1)

• 4,200 carats produced to end Apr-09

• 11.96, 11.39 and 10.51 carat stones from Pol-K Shaft

• In-situ grades of 66cpht (Pol-K), 140cpht (Bardu)

• $152/ct for Pol-K “pre-crash”

• The project was temporarily put onto care and maintenance in May-09 to preserve cash.

Tongo

Key value driver for growth

• Tongo is a renowned diamond mining area of Sierra Leone

• Stellar commenced exploration in 2007

• Four kimberlites discovered and tested

• Dyke 1 strike length of 2.5km

• Significant tonnage potential to depth

• 2,000 tonne bulk sampling programme in progress

Dyke 1 Bulk Sampling in progress

Bulk Sampling Results

• 2,000 ton bulk sampling ongoing and yielding in-situ grades of 110cpht

• 500 carats produced, to be exported in June

• 90% diamonds classified as gem quality

• 2008 diamond parcel re-valued at $169/ct

• Calculated $186 per tonne in situ value kimberlite, some of the highest value rock in the world

Guinea

Droujba

• Russian sampling grades of up to 5.84ct/m(>200cpht)

• 270-ct stone discovered by local diggers in alluvials near to pipe

• Drilling programme commenced in November 2010

• 18 holes completed for 3,000m

• Pipe intersected at 222m, open at depth

• Surface area delineated at 3-hectares

• Initial microdiamond results significantly positive

• Phase-2 drilling to delineate resource to 250m

Aerial View of the Droujba Kimberlite Pipe

Mandala and Bomboko

• 128,000 carats produced to date

• $4m in sales completed

• Bomboko closed down due to uneconomic grades

• Mandala to continue in high grade areas (>30cpht) so long as it remains profitable

      

Mandala Gems                                                                   Bomboko run of mine diamonds

Bouro

• 5km long kimberlite

• 2km from Mandala plant

• De Beers work suggested grades ofover 400cpht

• First bulk sample gave grade of243cpht

• 550 carats to be exported in May forvaluation

• Additional bulk samples to be collectedbefore end July-11

• Decision on future work will depend ondiamond grade and value from thesebulk samples

The Lord Daresbury - Non-Executive Chairman (aged 57)
	Peter Daresbury has held numerous executive positions, including CEO from 1997 to 2000 of the Greenalls Group, which had an annual turnover of £983 million and a FTSE market capitalisation of £1.7 billion. In 2000, the company was re-named The De Vere Group plc, and Peter Daresbury became Non-Executive Chairman until he stood down in 2006. Peter Daresbury has also served as Non-Executive Chairman of Kazakhgold Group Ltd from 2005 to 2007 and Executive Chairman of Highland Gold from 2002 to 2004. Peter is currently Chairman of AIM quoted Nasstar plc, Aintree Racecourse Company Ltd, Mallett plc and North West Business Finance Ltd, a new Private Venture Capital and Loan Fund (VCLF) for the Northwest.  Current directorships include Sumatra Copper and Gold Ltd, and in addition, since 2005, Peter sits on the Fleming Family and Partners Private Equity Committee.
Karl Smithson - Chief Executive Officer (aged 44)
	Karl Smithson (44) was appointed as Stellar's Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 January 2007, having built the portfolio of Stellar's assets within Mano River Resources since 2000. He led the listing of Stellar on AIM through a reverse takeover of West African Diamonds and has over the years successfully raised over £12million in equity funding for Stellar. Karl has 22 years of resource sector experience gained with a number of companies in senior management positions, including De Beers (10 years), SouthernEra Diamonds (two years) and African Aura/Stellar (10 years). Karl's working career has been focused on diamond exploration in Africa and he has been responsible for a number of new diamond discoveries in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Liberia.  Karl is a geology graduate of Kingston University in the UK. He completed his MBA in 2006 at the Graduate School of Business in Cape Town, South Africa and was awarded with the Old Mutual Gold Medal.
James Campbell - Non-Executive Director (aged 46)
	James is the Managing Director of African Diamonds plc, and a Director of Bugeco sa, Swala Resources plc, Boteti Mining Pty Ltd as well as Stellar Diamonds plc. Previously, he worked for De Beers for over 20 years, culminating in being General Manager responsible for resource delivery in the Global Mining and Exploration group. During his career with De Beers he also led small-scale mine development as well as being involved in corporate management and being Nicky Oppenheimer's Personal Assistant. James holds a degree in Mining & Exploration Geology from the Royal School of Mines (Imperial College, London University) and an MBA with distinction from Durham University. James is a Fellow of the Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Materials, Chartered Engineer (UK), Chartered Scientist (UK), a Professional Natural Scientist (RSA) and a member of the Institute of Directors of South Africa.  As part of his social commitment to South Africa, he acts as vice chairman of the South African Ballet Theatre and acting chairman of Common Purpose SA. He is also a licensed Lay Minister in the Anglican Church of South Africa and an accomplished Ballroom and Latin American dancer. James lives in Irene with his wife and two university going daughters.
Luis da Silva - Non-Executive Director (aged 40)
	Luis is CEO of TSXV/AIM listed (symbol: AFF) Afferro Mining Inc. He gained his extensive international experience with multinationals Lafarge S.A. and Blue Circle Industries Plc. Luis is a graduate Mining Engineer from Camborne School of Mines and read for his MBA at the Cranfield School of Management. He is a Non-Executive Director of Aureus Mining Inc (TSX / AIM: AUE).
Steven Poulton - Non-Executive Director (aged 35)
	Steven Poulton holds an Honours degree in Geology from the University of Southampton (1997) and a Masters degree in Mining Geology from the Camborne School of Mines (1998). He is the Chief Executive and co-founder (2007) of Altus Strategies Ltd, a private natural resource investment group and a director of its subsidiaries Altus Capital Ltd (the investment manager of Altus Resource Capital Ltd [LSE:ARCL]) and Asterion AV Ltd a special situation resource investor and new business incubator. Steven was a co-founder of African Aura Mining Inc, which in 2011 de-merged its assets to create Aureus Mining Inc [AIM / TSX: AUE] and Afferro Mining Inc [AIM / TSX-V: AFF]. Steven is a fellow of the Geological Society of London and a fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Management

Rowan D. Carr - Chief Operating Officer
	Rowan Carr has 21 years of diamond exploration with De Beers, managing projects in Botswana, South Africa, Angola, Guinea, CAR and the DRC. For 4 years he managed the world's largest prospecting sample treatment / indicator mineral examination facility in South Africa, which included the implementation of a global Laboratory Information Management System. He has a proven track record of initiating and managing exploration programmes in remote African settings and was responsible in 1997 for the discovery & drilling of Angola's first kimberlites found by De Beers since Independence. In a senior management position, prior to joining Stellar, Rowan managed De Beers' discovery and preliminary kimberlite evaluation drilling programme in the DRC. Rowan joined Stellar as VP Exploration in May 2007, and is responsible for exploration & evaluation activities, adding value to projects in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and the DRC. He did his Masters at the Royal School of Mines, and is a Fellow of the Geological Society (London) and a Chartered Geologist.
A. Kassim Mansaray - Senior Geologist for Sierra Leone
	Kassim completed an MSc. at the Moscow Geological Research Institute in 1980 and joined the Sierra Leone Geological Survey. In 1990, he completed a second MSc. in Mining Geo-statistics at the University of Leeds. In 1988, he was Project Geologist for an EEC funded project to investigate gold lode mineralisation in the Nimini hills. In 1995-96 he was responsible, on behalf of the Sierra Leone Government, for supervision of De Beer's offshore diamond exploration programme. Kassim has been with Mano and Stellar since 1996 and is currently responsible for both the Kono and Tongo projects in Sierra Leone.
Graham C. Radburnd - Project Manager, Tongo
	Graham, 56, brings over 32 years of bulk earthmoving, road construction, civil engineering, and diamond mining experience to Stellar. Graham spent from 1976 through to 1995 working on civils projects in South Africa, Botswana and Oman, specializing in bulk earthmoving and roads construction. From 1996 through to 2006, Graham covered all aspects of commissioning, operating and managing both alluvial and kimberlitic diamond Mines, having spent 6 years in Angola, and 4 years in the DR Congo with ITM Mining, SouthernEra Resources and Oryx Natural Resources. Graham joins Stellar from completing a 2 year contract, as the Operations Manager with the Tsar Emerald Corporation, refurbishing (US$45M) and bringing back into production, the Malysheva emerald deposit in Siberia, Russia.

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