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Endiama E.P. (''Empresa Nacional de Diamantes E.P.'') is the national
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company of
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and it is the exclusive concessionary of
mining rights Mineral rights are property rights to exploit an area for the minerals it harbors. Mineral rights can be separate from property ownership (see Split estate). Mineral rights can refer to sedentary minerals that do not move below the Earth's surfac ...
in the domain of diamonds. Angola's state-run diamond company Endiama produced 8.55 million carats of diamonds in 2010. Endiama's primary property is Catoca, which is a joint venture between Endiama (32.8%), Russia based ALROSA (32.8%), China based LLI (18%), and Brazil based Odebrecht (16.4%). Catoca is the seventh largest diamond mine in the world, and is estimated to produce over 7 million carats of diamonds in 2014 worth just under $1 billion.Mining.com: The state of global rough diamond supply 2014
March 13, 2014 Through the long time former president of Endiama, Noé Baltazar, who is part of the inner circle of
José Eduardo dos Santos José Eduardo dos Santos (; 28 August 1942 – 8 July 2022) was the president of Angola from 1979 to 2017. As president, dos Santos was also the commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and president of the People's Movement for the ...
,
Isabel dos Santos Isabel dos Santos (; born 20 April 1973) is an Angolan businesswoman, the eldest child of Angola's former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled the country as a dictator from 1979 to 2017. Once considered Africa's richest woman accordi ...
entered the diamond business with her stakes in SODIAM and ASCORP in which both Endiama and Noé Baltazar also had stakes as well as
Marc Rich Marc Rich (born Marcell David Reich; December 18, 1934 – June 26, 2013) was an international commodity, commodities Trader (finance), trader, hedge fund manager, financier, businessman, and financial criminal. He founded the commodities company ...
, Lucien Goldberg, and Lev Leviev for the latter.


Operations

Subsidiaries; links are to the subsidiaries' pages at Endiam's main site: * SODIAM/ Sociedade de Comercialização de Diamantes de Angola

''diamond purchasing; diamond sales; diamond trade management; company works to combat illegal diamond trade'' *
ENDIAMA Prospecção & Produção Endiama E.P. (''Empresa Nacional de Diamantes E.P.'') is the national diamond company of Angola and it is the exclusive concessionary of mining rights in the domain of diamonds. Angola's state-run diamond company Endiama produced 8.55 million car ...
/ ENDIAMA P & P

''diamond
prospecting Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (followed by exploration) of a territory. It is the search for minerals, fossils, precious metals, or mineral specimens. It is also known as fossicking. Traditionally prospecting reli ...
and
mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...
'' * Enditrade/ Sociedade Enditrade

''transport and logistics; transport of
ore Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.Encyclopædia Britannica. "Ore". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 7 April 2 ...
and diamonds between mining and processing facilities; produces
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in association with
Sonangol Group Sonangol ( pt, Grupo Sonangol) is a parastatal that formerly oversaw petroleum and natural gas production in Angola. The group consisted of Sonangol E.P. ( pt, Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola, E.P.) and its many subsidiaries. ...
; has recently begun producing heavy industrial equipment in association with its own subsidiary Endibell'' * Fundação Brilhante/F

''social programs; cultural programs'' * Clínica Sagrada Esperança/CS

''an 80-bed
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in Luanda; medical specialties represented include
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,
neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and peri ...
,
neurology Neurology (from el, wikt:νεῦρον, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine), medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of co ...
,
gynecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined are ...
,
obstetrics Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgi ...
, etc etc'' *
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- ''company
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'' * Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança/ GDSE

- ''"Sagrada Esperança", a major league
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club in Dondo.'' Endiama's mining operations, each of which is a company in its own right: * Associacao Chitotolo

''(35% ownership) located in N'Zagi -
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; besides mining, Chitololo is involved in education via its Projecto Educar'' * Sociedade de Desenvolvimento Mineiro (SDM

''in Cuango, Angola, Cuango, 50% ownership in association with
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in Brasil.'' * Sociedade Mineira de Catoca/ Catoca

''32.8%, in association with Almazzi Rossi and Alrosa in Russia, Daumonty Financing Company in Israel and Odebrecht Mining Services in Brasil. * Sociedade Mineira do Angola, Lda (20%) * Projecto Fucaúma/ Fucauma diamond minebr>
''40% owned in association with
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and others; * Projecto Luarica/ Luarica diamond minebr>
''38% owned in association with Transhex, Micol and others'' * Sociedade Mineira do Lucapa/SM

''51% owned by Endiama, 49% owned by Sociedade Portuguesa de Empreendimentos/SPE; operations are located in the Chicapa River and Luachimo River basins.'' * Sociedade Mineira do Camatchia-Camagico/ LUÓbr>
''a joint venture formed in 2003 with Hipergesta, Angodiam and ESCOM-Alrosa/
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and Alrosa.'' * Chimbongobr>
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''diamond production'' * Projecto Yetwene

''50% owned, in association with Mining BV/ Grupo Lev Leviev; located in the
Camissombo Camissombo is a town and commune of Angola, located in the province of Lunda Norte. See also * Communes of Angola The Communes of Angola ( pt, comunas) are administrative units in Angola after municipalities. The 163 municipalities of An ...
exploration area in the province of
Lunda Norte Lu(u)nda or Ruund may refer to: Places * Lunda (Asia Minor), an Ancient Roman city and present Catholic titular see * Lunda, Färingsö parish, a locality in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden * Lunda, Ohio, an unincorporated communi ...
.''


See also

*
Conflict diamond ''Blood Diamond'' is a 2006 American political war action thriller film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood diamonds, which are diamonds mi ...
*
Diamonds as an investment Diamonds were largely inaccessible to investors until the recent advent of regulated commodities, due to a lack of price discovery and transparency. The characteristics of individual diamonds, especially the carat weight, color and clarity, hav ...


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