This technology enables De Beers to mine its deposits responsibly by ensuring that all value is cost effectively and appropriately extracted from the deposit. Mining operations are able to recover all or as many diamonds as possible, while preventing their theft and preserving their value by minimizing damage induced by the recovery process.

Many technologies, techniques and processes required by the diamond mining industry are not readily available in the market place. The role of DebTech within the De Beers Family of Companies strives to advance these technologies through its capabilities in research, development, as well commercialization and support of products and technical services. These include the automation of mining processes and the remote monitoring of process and equipment performance, the development of marine mining technologies and efficient diamond sorting processes.

DebTech have provided diamond sorting technology to De Beers since 1979. 

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