Rapaport
POWERED BY Rapaport
  Skip Navigation LinksHome » News » Latest News » News Story

  News Search
Type
 Topic
 RDR Issue
 Keyword
 Author
   [Clear]

De Beers Launches Diamond Exploration Airship
By Jeanette Goldman Posted: 09/20/05 05:13
Submit Comment 
(Rapaport…September 20, 2005) De Beers launched its Zeppelin Airship in Botswana on September 16, marking the beginning of a new kind of diamond exploration in southern Africa using most modern technology, according to Bostwana’s Dailynews on September 19.

The airship displays the Diamonds for Development logo and will use modern geoscience equipment designed to find diamond-bearing kimberlite rock as it conducts large sweeps over Southern Africa. The airship will remain in Botswana for eight months where it will be used in the exploration of areas around Jwaneng and Orapa.

Speaking at the launch, managing director of Diamond Trading Company (DTC) Gareth Penny said that the three companies involved in the mission are Germany’s Zeppelin Airship Company with its innovative transport system, The United States’ Bell GeoSpace which brings geographysical technology, and Africa’s De Beers Group which combines the expertise of the two companies in order to search for new diamond deposits.

  Print  | Submit Comment 
| Email Article | Send Feedback |
Share
Previous Item | Back to List | Next Item  
 
 
 
 


© Copyright 1982-2010 by Martin Rapaport. All rights reserved. | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Legal Notices
Index®, RapNet®, Rapaport®, PriceGrid™, Diamonds.Net™, and JNS®; are TradeMarks of Martin Rapaport.
 While the information presented is from sources we believe reliable, we do not guarantee the accuracy
or validity of any information presented by Rapaport or the views expressed by users of our internet service.