Transparency to diamond market: Angola
Tender under Angola’s
New diamond marketing laws
The
Angola government says, according to a source from the National Prospecting,
Mining, Trading and Polishing Company of Angola (SODIAM), with the public sale
of very high quality diamond stones, begins the implementation of the new
diamond trade policy approved by the Cabinet Council aimed at ending the
monopoly and preferable clients.
The
statement arrived from Angola Government in the context of Lucapa. Earlier
Lucapa Diamond Company & their partners had announced about that diamonds
from the Lulo mine in Angola will feature in an historic inaugural
international tender under Angola’s new diamond marketing laws just approved by
the President of Angola, His Excellency Joao Lourenco, and the Council of Ministers.
As
such, Sociedade Mineira Do Lulo (SML) will showcase and sell the seven large
and exceptional Lulo diamonds it has in inventory through an exceptional stone
tender to be held in the offices of Sodiam (Angolan state diamond marketing
company) in Luanda in January 2019.
The
tender will mark a significant milestone for the Angolan diamond mining
industry, being the first Lulo diamonds offered for sale at international
tender under Angola’s new diamond marketing policy.
“With
opening of the diamond trade market, investors can now see the national market
and its agents, as privileged partners for the development of new projects. The
source adds that the move is even more important, since the government is
committed to turn Angola into more open country to foreign investment embedded
of good practices international, since the nation is the fifth world’s biggest
diamond producer a position it intends to boost and bolster” said the
government.
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