ALROSA reported that its sales of rough and polished diamonds rose 5 percent year on ?year to $1 billion in the first quarter of 2012.? ??ALROSA has noted a moderate growth of rough diamond prices, and the Company is ?expecting the growth to continue ...

India wants Gokhran, the body responsible for all rough diamond sales in the Russian Federation, to formalize a mechanism for diamond sales to India. The ADMR letter, penned by Maxim Shkadov, the group's chairman and CEO of Kristall, Russia's largest ...

Today the group's activities are spread across the entire value chain from rough diamond sourcing, cutting, polishing and distribution, and jewelry manufacture, to jewelry branding and retail, as well as global lifestyle brands, in India and abroad.

Industry sources said local diamantaires have been eyeing the rough diamond stockpile worth over $2 billion with Gokhran, which functions under Russian ministry of finance. The Russian state repository had suspended the sale of diamonds since 2008 ...

While Harry Winston reported that its rough diamond revenue in the fourth quarter was up 24%, it also saw a 14% fall in revenue in its luxury brand in the same period. But the company registered optimism at what it sees as increasing consumer demand ...

Alrosa's production suppresses De Beers' declining production of 31.3 million carats in 2011. However, De Beers' overall sales in 2011 had increased 26 percent to $7.4 billion and sales of rough diamonds by the DTC increased 27 percent to $6.5 billion.

JIM YARWOOD hit a 180 with his first three darts of the new Dover Invitation League season as Three Cups beat Division One new boys rough diamonds. Cups ran out 5-4 winners over promoted Division Two champions Diamonds who won the last two games of the ...

rough diamond prices have been on an upswing, rising 24% last year after two consecutive annual gains of 32%. India's annual requirement of rough diamonds hovers over $10 billion. In 2010-11, India imported $11 billion worth of rough stones, ...

Harry Winston, a luxury jeweler and watchmaker which holds the remaining 40 percent of Diavik, said it expected rough diamond production at the mine to rise to 8.3 million carats in calendar 2012 from 6.7 million in 2011. However, it had decided not to ...

The company said the decrease in rough diamond volume follows a decision to hold inventory. rough diamond production at Diavik was 3 percent higher, totaling 6.7 million carats, due primarily to an increase in ore processed. Harry Winston's 40 percent ...