{"id":5173,"date":"2014-09-08T16:26:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T09:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2014-09-08T16:26:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T09:26:57","slug":"gem-opens-botswanas-first-underground-diamond-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/gem-opens-botswanas-first-underground-diamond-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gem Opens Botswana&#8217;s first Underground Diamond Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gem Diamonds Ltd has opened the Ghaghoo diamond mine in Botswana, which will be the first underground diamond mine in the country and Gem&#8217;s second major producing diamond mine, joining its Letseng mine in Lesotho. The firm held an opening ceremony at the Ghaghoo mine today attended by the President of Botswana, Seretse Khama Ian Khama.<\/p>\n<p>The company is expected to employ approximately 250 people in Botswana once full Phase 1 production is achieved in 2015. The objective of Phase 1 of the development is to confirm the grade, diamond prices and the recovery processes. Results from Phase 1 will define the further development plans at Ghaghoo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.israelidiamond.co.il\/english\/News.aspx?boneId=918&amp;objid=14908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gem Diamonds Ltd has opened the Ghaghoo diamond mine in Botswana, which will be the first underground diamond mine in the country and Gem&#8217;s second major producing diamond mine, joining its Letseng mine in Lesotho. The firm held an opening ceremony at the Ghaghoo mine today attended by the President of Botswana, Seretse Khama Ian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,3949,3945,3946,257,3950,3948,254,4693,3947],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-confirm-the-grade","tag-gem-diamonds-ltd","tag-ghaghoo-diamond-mine","tag-news","tag-recovery-processes","tag-seretse-khama-ian-khama","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-underground-diamond-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}