Mining Resumes At The Lace Diamond Mine Diamondcorp Plc AIM Share Code: DCP & JSE Share Code: DMC ISIN: GB00B183ZC46 (Incorporated In England And Wales) (Registration Number 05400982) (SA Company Registration Number 2007/031444/10) ("Diamondcorp", “The Group” Or "The Company") Mining Resumes At The Lace Diamond Mine DiamondCorp, the Southern African diamond mining, development and exploration company, is pleased to advise that the Section 54 underground shutdown instruction issued last week by the South African Department of Mineral Resources with respect to the Lace diamond mine has been lifted and mining has resumed. The financial impact of the four days of mining lost as a result of the shutdown instruction has been minimised by a rescheduling of programme maintenance and the fact that the mine was ahead of its planned tonnage for the month at the time of the shutdown. Contact details: DiamondCorp plc Paul Loudon, Chief Executive Tel: +27 56 216 1300 Euan Worthington, Chairman Tel: +44 7753 862 097 UK Broker & Nomad Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited Adam James/Atholl Tweedie Tel: +44 20 7886 2500 JSE Sponsor Sasfin Capital (a division of Sasfin Bank Limited) Megan Young Tel: +27 11 445 8068 SA Corporate Advisor Qinisele Resources Proprietary Limited Dennis Tucker/Andrew Brady Tel: +27 11 883 6358 The information communicated in this announcement is inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014 ("MAR"). 18 October 2016 United Kingdom Date: 18/10/2016 08:00:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.