Endiama

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Empresa de Diamantes de Angola

Type	Private
Founded	1981
Headquarters	Luanda
Key people	Arnaldo de Sousa Calado, President
Industry	Mining
Products	Diamonds
Slogan	O Brilho da Prosperidade
Website	http://www.endiama.co.ao/contactos.php

Endiama (Empresa de Diamantes de Angola) is the national diamond company of Angola and it is the exclusive concessionary of mining rights in the domain of diamonds. Arnaldo de Sousa Calado is the president of the corporation. The company is based at the Edificio Endiama in Luanda.

[edit] Operations

Subsidiaries; links are to the (Portuguese) subsidiaries' pages at Endiam's main site:

SODIAM/Sociedade de Comercialização de Diamantes de Angola[1] diamond purchasing; diamond sales; diamond trade management; company works to combat illegal diamond trade
ENDIAMA Prospecção & Produção/ENDIAMA P & P[2] diamond prospecting and mining
Enditrade/Sociedade Enditrade[3] transport and logistics; transport of ore and diamonds between mining and processing facilities; produces lubricants in association with Sonangol; has recently begun producing heavy industrial equipment in association with its own subsidiary Endibell
Fundação Brilhante/FB [4] social programs; cultural programs
Clínica Sagrada Esperança/CSE [5] an 80 bed hospital in Luanda; medical specialties represented include cardiology, neurosurgery, neurology, gynecology, obstetrics, etc etc
Air Diamantes Angola/ADA [6] - company aviation
Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança/GDSE[7] - "Sagrada Esperança", a major league football club in Dondo.

Endiama's mining operations, each of which is a company in its own right:

Associacao Chitotolo[8] (35% ownership) located in N'Zagi - Lunda Norte; besides mining, Chitololo is involved in education via its Projecto Educar
Sociedade de Desenvolvimento Mineiro de Angola/SDM [9], in Cuango, 50% ownership in association with Odebrecht Mining Service in Brasil.
Sociedade Mineira de Catoca/Catoca [10] 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 mine [11] 40% owned in association with Trans Hex and others;
Projecto Luarica/Luarica diamond mine [12] 38% owned in association with Transhex, Micol and others
Sociedade Mineira do Lucapa/SML [13] 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/LUÓ [14] a joint venture formed in 2003 with Hipergesta, Angodiam and ESCOM-Alrosa/Espírito Santo and Alrosa.
Chimbongo [15]
Alfa 5 [16] diamond production
Projecto Yetwene[17] 50% owned, in association with Mining BV/Grupo Lev Leviev; located in the Camissombo exploration area in the province of Lunda Norte.