{"id":8181,"date":"2022-08-14T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/diamonds-in-angola-a-1-billion-carat-potential\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:25:49","slug":"diamonds-in-angola-a-1-billion-carat-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/diamonds-in-angola-a-1-billion-carat-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds in Angola, a 1 billion carat potential"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A study conducted by Angolan and Russian geologists as part of a cooperation agreement between the Alrosa Group and Endiama has divided the country into four areas.Angola has a total <strong>diamond potential<\/strong> of more than <strong>1 billion carats<\/strong>, emerges from a <strong>study<\/strong> conducted by Angolan and Russian geologists as part of a cooperation agreement between the <strong>mining group <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/preziosamagazine.com\/alrosa-sergey-ivanov-e-il-nuovo-presidente\/\"><strong>Alrosa<\/strong><\/a> and the country&#8217;s national diamond company <strong>Endiama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Of the total figure, more than 950 million are kimberlites and at least 50 million are alluvial material, <strong>deputy director of the Alrosa Group&#8217;s Geological Exploration Unit Victor Ustinov<\/strong> said in Luanda, reported by Prensa Latina news agency.<\/p>\n\n<p>The expert also added that <strong>the number could rise to 1.5 billion carats if further studies were conducted on the country&#8217;s potential.<\/strong> The study divided the Angolan <g id=\"gid_1\">territory<\/g> <g id=\"gid_2\">into four areas<\/g> with different potentials. Geologists concluded that most of the kimberlites discovered in the country are in<strong>northeastern Angola<\/strong> and belong to an area called &#8220;open territories,&#8221; where they are exposed to the air and are visible.<strong> In 2016, 9 million carats of diamonds were mined in Angola, including 7 in the Catoca mine.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n<p>Sources: &#8220;preziosamagazine.com article by C.Di Martino&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study conducted by Angolan and Russian geologists as part of a cooperation agreement between the Alrosa Group and Endiama has divided the country into four areas.Angola has a total diamond potential of more than 1 billion carats, emerges from a study conducted by Angolan and Russian geologists as part of a cooperation agreement between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8183,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions\/8183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}