BlueRock Diamonds PLC Recovery of Three Large Gem Quality Stones (4868S)
17 March 2021 - 6:00PM
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BlueRock Diamonds PLC
17 March 2021
BlueRock Diamonds PLC / AIM: BRD / Sector: Natural Resources
17 March 2021
BlueRock Diamonds PLC ('BlueRock' or the 'Company')
Recovery of Three Large Gem Quality Stones
BlueRock Diamonds PLC, the AIM listed diamond producer, which
owns and operates the Kareevlei Diamond Mine ('Kareevlei') in the
Kimberley region of South Africa, is pleased to announce the
recovery of three gem quality stones of 10.6 carats, 9.8 carats and
8.4 carats.
BlueRock Executive Chairman, Mike Houston, said, "I am very
encouraged by the recovery of these three high value gem quality
stones following on from the sale in January 2021 of a 14.8 carat
stone for USD167,000. The average price that we have received for
the first two months of 2021 was an excellent USD423 per carat and
I look forward to updating the market on the results of the March
tender, when we publish our quarterly report in early April."
Top five Kareevlei diamonds by value to date
Date Recovered Carats Sales Value USD Value per carat
USD
October 2019 20.7 236,000 11,400
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February 2019 24.9 190,000 7,900
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December 2020 14.8 167,000 11,000
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July 2019 12.2 105,000 8,600
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September 2020* 12.1 104,000 8,600
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* based on valuation as sold as part of a parcel.
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 mhouston@bluerockdiamonds.co.uk
Mike Houston dfacey@bluerockdiamonds.co.uk
David Facey, FD
SP Angel (NOMAD and Broker) contact@spangel.co.uk
Stuart Gledhill / Caroline Rowe
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St Brides Partners Ltd (Financial info@stbridespartners.co.uk
PR)
Isabel de Salis / Cosima Akerman
/ Susie Geliher
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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 with a combined inferred resource
of 10.4 million tonnes / 516,200 carats (February 2021); based on
its planned production of 1 million tonnes per annum, this provides
a minimum 10-year life of mine.
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