I should have got used to it...but somehow I still can't adapt to the inefficiency in these places! We are here to fix our optical sorters- what we did - 3 days ago!!! The customer wants us to do efficiency tests to proof that the units are recovering the diamonds. Well, obviously we can't do that our selfes because of security issues. So now we are waiting for 3 days to be able to test our units.
It is one guy who is responsible for that and must organise everything... wow, but it simply doesn't happen... He is so important that he has to do soooo many things every day that he cannot find time for our things. He is even so busy that one day he could not come to work before 10 o'clock... It is so nice to sit in the desert and waist your time...

...at least it looks like it is the place for me to update thite site. In the past I always sent something from here. The reason might be that there is simply nothing else to do here. Caught between the up to 40° hot dessert in the east and the 10° cold ocean in the west, there is nothing here!
For all of you who don't know where Oranjemund is (and that will be about 99% of all) I attached a map of the area. Please remember we are in Namibia!

Hopefully I will be able to change that again!

At the moment I am back at the same place ffrom where I sent my last message: Namibia, Oranjemund.

This time we are here to do the final commissioning of our sorters. We had our first successs of finding diamonds. On the first day of our test run we recovered a lot of stones out of a small sample (<300Kg).

Let's see, how it goes!