According to Jânio Corrêa Victor, this is a diamond certification system that will attest to their origin, recalling that Angola has been a member of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) since 2022 and has been periodically presenting its reports.
Jânio Corrêa Victor was speaking at the opening of the workshop on Assessment and Classification of Mineral Resources and Reserves, an event that precedes the 2nd International Diamond Conference, which will take place in the province of Lunda Sul on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
The minister stressed that the Angolan mining industry is experiencing a moment of significant growth and affirmation, with "transparency and compliance issues in its operations being a pressing need, adjusted to the requirements of international good practices and better adaptation to the internal legal framework".
Speaking to the press, the chairman of the board of directors of Endiama, a public diamond production company in Angola, José Ganga Júnior, considered this device for the traceability of Angolan diamonds to be "extremely important".
"The main purpose of this equipment that the Secretary of State referred to for tracking is to show the world where our diamonds come from, which mines we have, and what diamonds bring to Angola in terms of prosperity, employment and solutions to social problems," said José Ganga Júnior.
The president of Endiama also stressed the importance of the equipment in "showing that natural diamonds are perhaps more important than diamonds made in laboratories," referring to the challenge of synthetic diamonds.
During the event, the equipment was on display for a demonstration test of its operation.
