Nevsky Brilliant has been engaged in making polished diamonds of all categories for more than three years and mostly established itself as a manufacturer of large stones, second only to the largest diamond cutting company in Russia, Smolensk-based Krystal. The company’s international team of professional diamond cutters and manufacturing engineers made it possible to turn Nevsky Brilliant into a pace-setting leader in the Western Region of Russia not only in diamond manufacturing, but also in terms of turnover by value. Aneli Irakli, CEO of Nevsky Brilliant, told our correspondent about his company.
A strategic long-term plan paving way for further development of Belgium's diamond industry was unveiled recently by Governor Cathy Berx during the ceremony to inaugurate the Diamond Pavilion at the Museum aan de Stroom (MAS). Our correspondent in Belgium caught up with Ms. Berx to hear her comments on the event.In the fourth quarter of 2011, De Beers recovered 6.5 million carats of diamonds, which is a 30-percent slump from the third quarter of 2011. The news was broken in the press release distributed by Anglo American. Thus, it turns out that De Beers produced 31.328 million carats last year, which is 5% lower than in 2010.
Russia’s diamond miner ALROSA produced 34.4 million carats in 2011 confidently retaining the first place in the world in terms of carat output the third year running.
The press release says the reduction mainly reflects De Beers’ deliberate focus on increasing waste stripping, as well as scheduled maintenance at the Debswana and DBCM operations in recognition of short-term global macro-economic volatility.
At a meeting last December the Supervisory Board of ALROSA decided to bring the Group’s diamond output in 2012 to 34.6 million carats.
Tatiana Alexandrova, Rough&Polished, Moscow
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