AMADHILA AUTHENTIC MINING is a cutting edge diamond marketing and sales company, perfectly positioned to create a sustainable route to market a portion of Namibia’s unique and highly sought-after diamonds.
AMADHILA AUTHENTIC MINING is registered under Registration Number of Corporation: CC/2015/15280 the business focuses on Mining and trade of precious gem stones Namibia's economy is heavily dependent on mining, which contributed an average 21.5 per cent annually to GDP.
The industry is stretching its operations offshore. Today, Namibia is the only country that mines diamonds from the seabed. Some 29,000 carats, or 4 per cent of total diamond output, were recovered offshore in 1990, rising to 623,000 carats, or 44 per cent of total output in 1997. "If the expansion plans of the diamond producers are successful, offshore output is expected to surge to 1.27 MN carats in 1999 and 1.60 MN in 2000," says the Bank of Namibia.
Namibia is expected to increase its total diamond production from an estimated 1.4 MN carats in 1997 to 2.2 MN carats a year by 2000, according to the Bank of Namibia.
The official story of Namibia’s diamond history starts in 1908, when a young railways worker, Zacharias Lewala picks up a large shiny diamond whilst on duty near the country’s southern coastal town of Luderitz.
Little did he know that this nondescript act would set off a chain of events so large, it would change the course of history forever. An avalanche of fortune hunters, whose eyes sparkled in awe of the world’s purest, most precious diamonds, descended on this desert land.
As a result of the diamond rush, cities grew from the sand, some of which are mere remnants of the past.
The German colonial government, which at the time had control over what was known as Deutsch Sud West Afrika (German South west Africa), declared the diamond rich areas of the country as Forbidden Areas or “Sperrgebiet” and small mining operations set up shop within these areas.
After World War 11, most of these colonial mining companies were amalgamated to form Consolidated Diamond Mines (CDM), which held the monopoly of the mining rights within this “Forbidden Area”.
