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Venetia Mine

Location: 74 km SW from Beitbridge, South Africa

Regional Office:

PO Box 668
Kimberley
South Africa
3600

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Summary

Mine TypeUnderground
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Diamond
Mining Method
  • Sub-level caving
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SnapshotVenetia is South Africa’s leading diamond mine. Open-pit mining concluded as planned in 2022, with the first underground production achieved in June 2023.

Venetia Underground project will progress in line with the recently reconfigured plan and is expected to extend the life of the mine to 2048.

Ore from the underground and surface low-grade stockpiles is treated through the Main Treatment Plant.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Government of the Republic of Botswana (GRB) 11.1 % Indirect
Ponahalo Holdings Pty Ltd 26 % Indirect
Anglo American plc. 62.9 % Indirect
Anglo American owns 85% of De Beers Group, the world's leading diamond company. The remaining 15% is owned by the Government of the Republic of Botswana (GRB).

De Beers’ legal ownership of De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) and its subsidiaries is 74%. For accounting purposes De Beers consolidates 100% of DBCM as it is deemed to control the BEE entity, Ponahalo, which holds the remaining 26%.

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Deposit type

  • Kimberlite

Summary:

The 519 Ma Venetia kimberlite cluster was emplaced into the 2 Ga high-grade metamorphic Central Zone of the Limpopo Mobile belt. This belt consists of three tectonic units: Southern Marginal Zone, Central Zone and Northern Marginal Zone, intruded by Proterozoic dolerite dykes and sills. The kimberlite cluster consists of 13 pipes and one external dyke. The Diamond Resource is represented by two of these pipes, K01 and K02. Most of the kimberlites are less than 1.0 ha in size, with the majority being less than 0.2 ha in size.

The regional structure within the Central Zone played a significant role in controlling the emplacement of the kimberlites and resulted in a prominent west–north west orientation of the pipe shapes. The kimberlite bodies are characterised by steepsided and irregular shapes as a result of the fault, joint and fracture orientations. They consist of several texturally distinct phases of kimberlite, varying from several types of volcaniclastic kimberlite lapilli tuffs to several coherent kimberlite types. The two main kimberlites are monogenetic pipe complexes characterised by multiple kimberlite emplacement events.

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Comminution

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Water usage

Parameter2023
Recycled water 12,222 ML
Fresh water 2,520 ML

Commodity Production

CommodityUnits20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Diamond k carats  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe1,9224,2494,6023,5173,132
All production numbers are expressed as mineral.

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Personnel

Mine Management

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Workforce

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