Rockwell in court battle over payments to mine contractor

Rockwell Diamonds is contesting a provisional liquidation application lodged by an irate contractor that could derail its plans to revive the embattled alluvial diamond mining operations in the Northern Cape. C-Rock Mining lodged papers last week to place Rockwell Diamonds and its operating subsidiary, HC van Wyk Diamonds, into provisional liquidation over the failure to pay millions of rand in bills run up while building a wet plant at the Wouterspan mine and for mining services it had provided. Rockwell, which is in the process of raising $8m from its large shareholders, has pinned its future on Wouterspan, but that has now come under threat over disputed payments for the plant that should process 200,000 tonnes a month of diamond-bearing gravel. "We are going into litigation over how much is owed by whom. It is common knowledge that we have to pay them for work they’ve done for us, but on the other hand, there are instances we believe they’ve been overpaid and owe us," newly appo...

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