Mineral chemistry studies, including DES in-house developed Machine Learning “fingerprinting” workflows were deployed to highlight an area with strikingly similar mineral chemistry to the Jwaneng cluster of kimberlites. Numerous geophysical techniques have been used to create a 3D model of the area in order to identify possible diamondiferous alluvial gravels underneath the relatively...

Two kimberlites/”related” bodies were discovered by SAMC in the Mosomane area in 1998. The bodies have been described as kimberlites, related rocks and melnoites and consist of a sill, subcropping over a large area of several square kilometres and a dyke with a strike distance of more than a kilometre. Further work was undertaken by Daheng in 2006, who took additional samples,...

DES has two licences in the Orapa area has undertaken geophysical surveys and drilling programmes on airborne geophysical targets. Two targets have been proven negative to date. DES has an ongoing mineral chemistry study incorporating the Orapa cluster kimberlite province and surrounding indicator mineral sampling results, including DES’s in-house developed Machine Learning...

DES has entered into an “Option Agreement” with Pangolin Diamonds that will enable DES and its alliance partners to earn into any discovery made on their PL 172/2020. A widely-accepted hypothesis proposes a Cretaceous drainage crossing the Orapa area from the northwest towards the Limpopo River for over 30 million years before being cut off by the Ovambo-Kalahari-Zimbabwe (OKZ) axis...