African Diamonds, the Dublin-headquartered mining company which is listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and the Botswana Stock Exchange, has reported a pre-tax loss of £176,000 (€259,000), an operating loss of £225,000 and a 24p loss per share for the half year to the end of last December.

African Diamonds, the Dublin-based diamond mining company, has announced the discovery of two additional diamonds from the ongoing analysis of drilling samples from their 19 hole drilling programme in Orapa, Botswana.

Irish diamond firm, African Diamonds has announced it will commence trading on the Botswana Stock Exchange on March 3, 2004.

African Diamonds plc has announced plans to seek a secondary listing of its ordinary shares on the Botswana Stock Exchange.