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On the basis of small samples of ore and diamonds, the pipe was assessed as being sub economic with relatively low ore grades and low diamond valuations.

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In 2002, the sector has continued to show a declining trend both for diamond production as well as mining and quarrying.

Currently, there are only 8 mines that are in production in the country 4 diamond mines, 2 copper nickel mines, 1 gold mine, 1 soda ash mine and 1 coal mine.

Various foreign companies operating diamond, titanium, bauxite and gold mines left the country or were forced to suspend their operations.

More than 50 per cent of diamond mining activities in the country are still unlicensed.

Branch Energy, a company affiliated to EO, has been contracted to work the Koidu diamond mines.

The Government continued to implement measures to reassert its control over diamond mining through the issuance of more mining licences.

The FN provides combatants daily to secure the area around the diamond pits.

In Mbuji Mayi alone 45,000 children work in diamond mines and do not attend school.

In July and August, following the discovery of diamond deposits in Sanquin District, Sinoe County, some 20,000 people moved into the area, where they started illegal alluvial diamond mining activities.

However, the Transitional Government has continued to struggle to establish security throughout diamond mining areas.

Newly discovered deposits of diamonds in Gbarpolu and Nimba counties recently led to the movement of a significant number of speculators to these areas.

Nonetheless, the Government will have to continue to deploy considerable efforts to monitor the mines and diamond extraction.

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In December 2004, the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy began surveillance of diamond mining areas and discovered evidence of illegal diamond mining in Lofa, Nimba and Grand Gedeh Counties.

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The problem came to a head this year when the Kimberley Process began to certify diamonds from Marange, in Zimbabwe. The Marange diamond field, discovered in 2006, is one of the richest ever found.

This remarkable growth is linked to increased Government control over diamond mining through the implementation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme and related measures taken by the Government.

As for mining production, the Central African extraction industries used to rely on two main products diamonds and gold.

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It is these laws, policies and practices that attract mining companies to prospect for and subsequently exploit the diamonds, copper nickel, coal, gold and soda ash deposits.

It was hoped that the embargo would help to combat the illegal export of diamonds from legally operating licensed mines.

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In addition, diamond mining rights and boundaries continue to be a major source of disputes among chiefdoms.

The embargo on the export of diamonds from Liberia is rapidly becoming ineffective, as miners dig with a flagrant disregard for national or United Nations authority.

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According to surveys of mining sites conducted by UNAMSIL, more than 50 per cent of diamond mining remains unlicensed, and reports indicate that there is still a considerable degree of illegal diamond smuggling.

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Such innovations include on ship analysis of geophysical and geological survey data, recently carried out for the first time for diamond concessions offshore South Africa, and making provisional interpretation of seabed sediment characteristics relevant for diamonds and mineral sands mining from repeated in situ measurements obtained through cone penetrometer tests (CPT).

This includes, but is not restricted to, agricultural work and often toiling in diamond mines in conditions akin to slavery.

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