Tsodilo Resources Limited Awarded Key Diamond Exploration License In The Orapa Kimberlite Field, Botswana

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Tsodilo Resources Limited (“Tsodilo” or the “Company”) (TSXV:TSD) is pleased to announce that its Botswana subsidiary, Bosoto (Pty) Ltd., has been granted prospecting license PL217/2016 in the Orapa Kimberlite Field (“OKF”) in Botswana. As quoted in the press release: PL217/2016 is located within the OKF in Botswana. The diamond mines in Botswana have produced an …

Tsodilo Resources Limited (“Tsodilo” or the “Company”) (TSXV:TSD) is pleased to announce that its Botswana subsidiary, Bosoto (Pty) Ltd., has been granted prospecting license PL217/2016 in the Orapa Kimberlite Field (“OKF”) in Botswana.
As quoted in the press release:

PL217/2016 is located within the OKF in Botswana. The diamond mines in Botswana have produced an average of 27 million carats annually in the last 10 years and Botswana is the world’s largest producer of diamonds by value. In 2016, the OKF area produced 8.85 million carats. Of the 83 known kimberlite bodies in the OKF, eleven have been or are currently being mined. These are AK01 with AK02 and AK07 (Orapa, Debswana), AK06 (Karowe, Lucara Diamond Corporation), BK01, BK09, BK12 and BK15 (Damtshaa, Debswana), DK01 and DK02 (Letlhakane, Debswana) and BK11 (Firestone Diamonds). The Karowe mine has produced such notable diamonds as the 1,109 carat ‘Lesedi La Rona’ and the 813 carat ‘Constellation’.

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