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Gangaram-Panday, A. (author)
De Beers Marine is currently mining diamonds offshore near the Namibian coast (at water depths of 115 - 140 meters), using a vertical batch drill mining system ('Wirth drill"). Previously also continuous seabed crawlers have been used, but this method was discontinued because of unsatisfactory operational performance and recovery of the diamonds...
master thesis 2003