Hopes for Liberia’s first diamond mine rise on general election

This year's discovery of two new additional diamond-bearing pipes that are satellites to an earlier-discovered main diamond-bearing kimberlite pipe have boosted hopes for the establishment of the first diamond mine in Liberia, where artisanal activity has been the mainstay of diamond recovery in the West African country since the 1930s and where a general election took place this week. Downstream of the sizeable main kimberlite pipe, located in Liberia’s Camp Alpha region of Cape Mount County, artisanal miners have been operating with considerable success for many decades. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video).