Letlhakane open pit mine is situated in the Boteti District of Botswana, 50km from Debswana's Orapa operation and 190km west of Francistown.
Letlhakane means "little reeds.”
The resource was first discovered during the sampling and evaluation process at Orapa.
It became Debswana's second mine when it opened in 1975.
Letlhakane is the deepest of Debswana’s mines, and ensuring slope stability is an ongoing challenge.
The mine is managed from the larger Orapa operation, producing 3.6 million tons of ore annually.
In 2006, 1.089 million carats of diamonds were recovered at the mine.
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