A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, stated in January that it had discovered two large diamonds in its diamond mine Malambani Permis de Recherche, located in the Congo.

The first diamond was described as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter. The second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white colored dodecahedral diamond. It was reported that the weight of each was 0.1 gram.

Canadian government records indicated that the firm after World War II found a sharp-faced white gem octahedral diamond that weighed around 75 carats in the same location, with a blue-yellow color.

The company has been in the process of conducting systematic reconnaissance exploration mapping and sampling for gold and diamonds along the Mayoko Greenstone Belt at Malambani. The firm stated that the diamond were found in an area with a It has heavy mineral pan-concentrate sampling in alluvium.

The diamonds were found in two pits located 100 meters from each other. The diamond indicator mineral chromite and purplish, pink garnets were found in these areas at the same time.