Overview

Diagem Inc. is a publicly listed Canadian exploration mining company focussed on the exploration and development of primary diamond resources in Juína Diamond Province of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The Company’s main achievement is the discovery of two new clusters of kimberlite pipes believed to be significant sources of Juína’s historical alluvial diamond production. The most documented of the two sites is located on the Chapadão, a regional elevated plateau, and has revealed economic grade diamondiferous crater facies kimberlitic rocks outcropping and/or under shallow tertiary cover. The considered one if not the most promising area of Brazil for the delineation of large primary diamond Chapadão has to be deposits of economic significance. Diagem properties also have excellent alluvial diamond potential.

Chief Property

Brazil

Diagem is an exploration company focussed on finding primary kimberlitic sources of diamonds in Brazil’s historical alluvial Juina Diamond Province. The Company holds an unrivalled portfolio of mining properties of 228,000 hectares, by far the largest single landholding in the area. There is also an additional 100,000 hectares of priority applications. The properties host 40 identified kimberlite pipes; 19 of which have been proven to be diamondiferous, five are barren and 16 have yet to be investigated. The Collier-04 kimberlite pipe is the only pipe with any appreciable amount of work done to investigate its potential.

In late 2006 and early 2007, Diagem discovered two new kimberlite clusters which are believed to be significant primary sources of the Juina historical alluvial diamond production. The realization of the potential of the kimberlite clusters to host one or more economic primary diamond deposits is excellent and constitutes the Company’s primary objective.
In addition, Diagem has one advanced project at the feasibility stage: the 17 hectare Collier-04 kimberlite pipe on mining concession Property 214 is undergoing large-scale bulk sampling through the commissioning of a 23 cubic metre per hour pilot concentration plant and the recovery of commercial size diamonds at its Juina X-Ray Separator facility in Juina. From a Brazilian perspective, Diagem has all the permits to extract, process, market and sell the diamonds recovered at Collier-04.

Management

• Mousseau Tremblay, PhD, P.Eng., Director
  Recognized worldwide as a leader in the field of diamond exploration, he is credited with the discovery of several kimberlite deposits in Africa and Canada including the Bamigui-Bangoran deposit in the Central African Republic. He worked for a period of fourteen years with the world’s leading diamond producer, De Beers, and established their North American diamond exploration division, pioneering diamond exploration in North America. Dr. Tremblay received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 from the Quebec Prospectors Association.
• Denis Francoeur, P.Geo., M.Sc., Chief Executive Officer & Director
  is a practicing geologist with over 30 years of varied exploration experience in Canada, Central & South America and in Botswana, Africa. He most recently held senior positions at junior mining companies and previously spent 18 years at Noranda. In 1987, Mr. Francoeur and his exploration team were the recipients of the 1987 Prospector of the Year Award of the Quebec Prospectors Association in recognition for the discovery of three new ore bodies in Northwestern Quebec.
• Paulo Andreazza, Geologist, President
  has been an exploration geologist for over 30 years in various commodities in Brazil and abroad, including more than 20 years pursuing diamond exploration. He has lead the Rio Tinto diamond branch in Brazil and has expert knowledge of the Juina Diamond Province.
• Paul Einarson, CA, CPA, Chief Financial Officer
  Prior to joining Diagem, Mr. Einarson worked three years with Molson Inc. as Senior Director of Financial Reporting, Planning, and Analysis which included significant exposure to their Brazilian operations. Mr. Einarson also draws on five years in Eastern Europe where he was involved in opening
  and developing offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
• David Crevier, Secretary & Director
  is the managing partner in a law firm focused on commercial, securities, and mining law.
• Jacques Lewy, Director
  is principal and founder of Natural Diamond Corp. NV., a diamond marketing company headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium.
• Philip Renaud, Director
  is Managing Director of Church Advisors, a European investment advisory business. Until recently, he was a founding partner of Change Capital Partners, a 300 million Euro private equity fund.
• Tony Wood, Director
  is a chartered accountant with extensive experience in diamond and other resource markets.
• Carlos Alberto Pessoa Pardellas, Director
  is a retired Brazilian Ambassador, in multiple European and Middle Eastern countries as well as in China and the U.S. He has accumulated experience in numerous mining initiatives in Brazil.
• Jose Aldo Duarte Ferraz, Mining Engineer and Metallurgist, Consultant to Diagem
  is responsible for the design and construction of the concentration plants and has also been involved with the application and renewal of Diagem’s environmental, exploration and mining permits.

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