Zimbabwean diamond state company Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) trying to get local banks to $ 300 million to buy equipment and expand their operations, according to the Zimbabwean media.
Local newspaper The Source quotes the executive director ZCDC Nyashanu Ridge (Ridge Nyashanu), who said that the company not having its own equipment, will have to buy it and upgrade the processing plant.
Last year's official Harare deprived of licenses for diamond mining companies that operate in the fields of Marange (Marange), and consolidated its operations under the ZCDC.
"In the future we hope to recapitalize, the total cost is around $ 300 million", - said Nyashanu.
"We are negotiating with local banks and other private financial institutions, and their results are very encouraging we will be able to come to an agreement in the near future.", - he added.
ZCDC last year received $ 30 million from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for the purchase of equipment from Belarus.
Diamond mining in the Marange diamond field falls forced consolidation.
Last year at the diamond fields of Zimbabwe produced about 900,000 carats of diamonds, against a peak of 12 million carats a few years ago.
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Jeweler from Manhattan, who said about the disappearance of diamonds worth about $ 5-10 million from the unlocked safe in the center of Manhattan, is now, reportedly, found that, in fact, stones were thrown out by mistake, Idex Online reported with reference to the publication of the New york Post.
According to sources in law enforcement bodies, employees of the company J Birnbach Inc., which reportedly helped his boss to move to another floor, mistakenly threw three wooden boxes that were actually filled with diamonds.
Later, diamonds were discovered a security guard of the building during the round floor, said the publication. It found the police officers investigating the case, when viewed from the recording of CCTV cameras for November 24.
At the time of the arrest of the guard has already sold more diamonds to another jeweler in the same building, but he remained a 17-carat stone valued at $ 3.2 million.
This 17-carat diamond and two smaller stone and $ 10,000 in cash were transferred to guard the police, but now the authorities are trying to track down the rest of the stones.
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