Advanced tests run by Botswana Diamonds have established targets which it intends to explore for rough diamonds in the southern African country the firm is named after, Rough and Polished reports. Gravity studies and electro-magnetic studies that the firm carried out at its concession in Botswana's Lethakane region have bequeathed enough information to draw up a list of specific targets for drilling operations.

Botswana Diamonds intends to dig five holes in the next month and a half in the search for diamondiferous kimberlite structures. The diamond company's president John Teeling expressed satisfaction with the progress that the firm had made at the site thus far. Teeling added that as a result of the data their earlier tests have produced, the firm has already applied for two more concessions to explore for diamonds on territories that are contiguous to their existing holding.

Although confident of the existence of subterranean diamonds, Teeling noted that they were difficult to reach because they were covered by Kalahari sand and basalt, according to Rough and Polished.