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Underground mining resumes at DiamondCorp's Lace mine

Published: 15:19 26 Jul 2016 BST

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The South Africa Department of Mineral Resources gave permission for the resumption of mining

DiamondCorp PLC (LON:DCP), the Southern African diamond mining, development and exploration company, said underground mining has resumed at its Lace diamond mine.

The South Africa Department of Mineral Resources have permission for the resumption this afternoon.

Mining was suspended on 18 July on the order of the Department of Mines following an incident involving explosives in which a miner’s assistant was injured.

The Department of Mineral Resources ordered that all miners’ assistants handling explosives should undertake refresher safety training, which has now been completed.

Diamondcorp had previously indicated it expects to return to its targeted 30,000 tonnes a month rate of production in August and plans to make up the July shortfall by September.

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