For now, Mothae is expected to yield 22,000 carats per year. The company also has a 40% stake in the prolific Lulo mine in Angola, a source of the world’s highest dollar-per-carat alluvial diamonds.

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Construction will start toward the end of 2013 and will take 18 months, she said. Namdeb, which plans to produce 600,000 carats in 2012, expects the new mine to produce 45,000 carats a year.