Diamond valued at USD104,000

RNS Number : 5472X

BlueRock Diamonds PLC

01 September 2020

 

BlueRock Diamonds PLC / AIM: BRD / Sector: Natural Resources

1 September 2020

BlueRock Diamonds PLC ('BlueRock' or the 'Company')

Diamond valued at USD104,000

BlueRock Diamonds PLC, the AIM listed diamond producer, which owns and operates the Kareevlei Diamond Mine ('Kareevlei' or the 'Project') in the Kimberley region of South Africa, is pleased to announce the valuation of the 12.12 carat recovered in July 2020 of USD104,000.

BlueRock Executive Chairman, Mike Houston, said,  "This is our fifth diamond recovered with a value of above USD100,000.  Now that we are operating in pure Kimberlite again following the development of KV Main we expect an increasing incidence of higher value diamonds."

 Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure - Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement.

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BlueRock Diamonds PLC Mike Houston David Facey, FD	[e-mail] [e-mail]
SP Angel (NOMAD and Broker) Stuart Gledhill / Caroline Rowe	Tel: [phone]
St Brides Partners Ltd (Financial PR) Susie Geliher / Cosima Akerman	Tel: [phone]

Notes to editors:

BlueRock Diamonds is an AIM-listed diamond producer which operates the Kareevlei Diamond Mine near Kimberley in South Africa which produces diamonds of exceptional quality and ranks in the top ten in the world in terms of average value per carat. The Kareevlei licence area covers 3,000 hectares and hosts five known diamondiferous kimberlite pipes. As at November 2018, it was estimated that the remaining Inferred Mineral Resource from the four kimberlite pipes (KV1, KV2, KV3 and KV5) represents a potential inground number of carats of 367,000.

 

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