Terra Energy & Resource Technologies Inc. (TEGR)

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A little info about Terra Insight Corp. that i found on the web, may be you have seen it alredy but makes for a good reading.

Diamonds and Gems


Miners race to exploit Namibia's off-shore diamonds
By: Rodrick Mukumbira
Posted: '14-SEP-06 11:00' GMT © Mineweb 1997-2006



WINDHOEK (Mineweb.com) --A raft of new diamond exploration projects are beginning in Namibia, as the focus shifts from land to marine reserves. This week alone, two international companies have reported stepping up prospecting projects in Namibia’s off-shore territory.

Diamonds are the lifeline of the Namibian economy, contributing over 70 percent to the country’s GDP. But earlier this year, Namdeb - a 50-50 joint venture between the Namibian government and DeBeers Group - voiced concern over the declining land diamond reserves.

Since then, its interim results for the year ended 30 June 2006 revealed a shift to a near match in production for marine mining activities and land based operations. Its marine mines accounted for 537,000 carats, while land based operations produced 544,000 carats.

Namdeb managing director Inge Zaamwani said her company was pumping US$125 million into in-shore and off-shore diamond mining activities, and predicted that marine diamond mining activities would by-pass land mining in 2009, due to an “aging process” underway in land-based mines.

Meanwhile, on Monday, Namterra Mineral Resources (Pty) Ltd, a subsidiary of Terra Insight Corporation, said that it had received a sixth exclusive licence to use satellite-based technology to explore for diamonds in an area covering approximately 247,000 acres of off-shore territory.

Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corp, a Canadian company listed on the TSX, followed suit on Tuesday announcing that it will commence the first phase of exploring Block J in Namibia’s south-western coast for diamonds on October 8.

This phase, which consists of a geophysical survey of an area totalling approximately 1,200 line-kilometres and an extraction of at least 25 vibro-core samples measuring 100 millimetres in diameter, will last for about 25 days, said a statement from the company on Wednesday.

It will be undertaken by International Mining and Dredging Holding Ltd (IMD), an international marine mining contractor with state-of-the-art geophysical survey and sampling equipment. IMD’s parent company Argo SRL owns several marine exploration and mining vessels that have been successfully operating diamond mining projects in Namibian territorial waters for over six years.

The statement said the survey and vibro-core sampling will focus specifically on target areas called Features 6 and 8 in areas lying between the mining town of Luderitz and South Africa, both of which proved to contain diamonds in the two previous reconnaissance sampling programmes the company undertook.

“Feature 6 forms a known aeolian-fluvial diamondiferous deposit covering approximately 4.1 sq. Km, and is structurally similar to known deposits in the Luderitz area in Namibia where an historical inferred resource of 4.1 million carats of diamonds has been estimated. Feature 8 consists of known diamondiferous gravel waves and lag gravel deposits covering approximately 11.2 sq. Km. Feature 8 is structurally similar to a known deposit at the mouth of the Orange River area in Namibian waters, where Namdeb is producing in excess of 900,000 carats annually,” said the statement.

If the first phase results are satisfactory, a second phase will begin almsot immediately to take 319 large samples, each of 10 square metres.

Here is the link:
http://www.mineweb.net/gems/170220.htm

Always do you own DD.