Mozambique is joining an international certification process aimed at establishing the origin of diamonds and avoiding the transaction of precious stones from conflict areas, Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Sousa Fernando has announced. “We are joining the Kimberley Process certification scheme, to certify that [the stones] are not blood diamonds,” Sousa Fernando told journalists in Maputo on Wednesday at the opening Mozambique’s largest exhibition of precious stones, Expogema.
Three years ago, mining company Mustang Resources announced the discovery in Mozambique of the first deposit of marketable diamonds, while further research in 2016 discovered the existence of diamonds in the Massagena district of Gaza province, southern Mozambique.
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