Recently, the chairman of the board of the Angolan state diamond mining company, ENDIAMA Antonio Carlos Sumbula, spoke at a meeting of the Commission for Social Policy of the Council of Ministers, where he presented a project for the establishment of the Diamond Museum in Angola. The construction of the museum can take about three years and will cost $ 718 million.
According to the head of ENDIAMA, the project was launched after approval at a meeting of the commission. Within the framework of the project it is planned to build a seven-story building for the museum and recreate the ancient "Iron Palace" in the center of Luanda.
Antonio Carlos Sumbula stressed that he wants to see the diamond museum as a dynamic structure that will educate the general public, giving scientific information on a number of issues - for example, the formation of diamonds in kimberlite rocks. It is necessary to show the processes of erosion of kimberlites and to recreate the sequence of events that occurred thousands of years ago.