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| Tony and Beth live in Northcliff hill right on top with a fantastic view over greater Johannesburg and Randburg area.Tony works for Debeers and Beth has her own pottery workshop where she makes the most fantastic dinner sets, a must for any one, and of course tony is always busy in the garden making modifications or changes to the landscape . Tanzania
Steven Holmes 064494S0391707E Dar es Salaam Tanzania. M315. Tony and Beth will be going to Tanzania next year i understand so i have add a additional photo page for them that i took of the web Mwadui Williamson Diamonds Mine enjoy. As Promised some photos taken by Tony And Beth and some extra news from www.mining.co.za an article on Williamson Mine williamson Mine Tony Guthrie .htm Williams photos/2003_0128_102120AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0130_085917AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0130_123940AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0131_071114AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0131_075045AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0131_093341AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0131_093400AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0131_093428AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0131_093428AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0131_093455AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0201_062557AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0201_062605AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0201_062625AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0201_094839AA.JPG Williams photos/2003_0202_081907AA.JPG
Canadian GM mining Tony Guthrie (left) and senior divisional surveyor Alex Bals (right) with John McConnell, vice president NWT projects (Snap Lake) and Jeremy Wyeth, Snap Lake mining project leader. The men from Canada were in South Africa to attend the August mining review and also visited operations here and in Botswana to establish best practice.
Chairman Nicky Oppenheimer and senior company officials visited Williamson Mine at Mwadui in Tanzania during August. They were in the country to attend the opening of the Geita gold mine (a joint venture between AngIoGold and Ashanti) near Mwanza. Williamson is 75 per cent owned by De Beers and treats two million tons a year. Production for this year is likely to be more than 250 000 carats. This is from tailings retreatment and from the economically viable remnant ore in the 50-year-old pit. The visit was an opportunity to view improvements made since De Beers took over the operation of the mine in 1994.
There are about 900 employees, about half of whom are contractors. The MD is John Acland. Exploration work was undertaken by De Beers from 1993 and resulted in the discovery of over 90 new kimberlite pipes in Tanzania. However none of these proved economically attractive and Exploration was suspended at the end of last year.
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