1.   If successful, the rewards for diamond miners can be enormous.

2.   Guyanese gold and diamond miners want neighboring Venezuela to reopen its border with Guyana, to allow the miners to receive supplies in the remote area where they work.

3.   Malaysian Mining Corp. has controlling interests in Plutonic Resources Ltd. and diamond miner Ashton Mining Ltd.

4.   Meanwhile, an American diamond miner in Lubumbashi said troops from Angola as well as Angolan tanks and heavy equipment were involved in the rebel push toward the capital.

5.   The Lundas have also seen fighting amongst armed groups of rival diamond miners and speculators.

6.   The South African ambassador in Luanda said earlier this week that the four men were civilian diamond miners.

7.   Angolan security services have experienced difficulties patrolling the border with neighbouring Zaire and have ordered swoops on unauthorised diamond miners and traders in Lunda-Norte.

8.   Earlier LUSA quoted Moises Ndele, governor of northeastern Lunda-Norte province, as saying the plane was carrying clandestine Zairean diamond miners hired by UNITA.

9.   Yellowknife is expecting diamond miners to be employed near here by the Australian BHP conglomerate later this year to start a new wave of house purchasing and building.