Small Diamonds Lead Price Gains in September
1-carat RAPI rises for second straight month.
Category: Rough
All 36 diamonds exceed 10 carats, with seven topping 60 carats.
Staff has returned to work following upgraded security measures.
Rough market seeing gentle improvement after months of crisis, dealers say.
Move puts miner’s recoverable amount at $4.1 billion.
The diamond industry’s most important sales agreement is almost done.
Miner recovered 549-carat Sethunya in 2020 and 1,080-carat Eva Star in 2023.
Parent company slashes diamond miner’s production plan by 10 million carats.
The miner faces competing pressures as the focus shifts to negotiations with Botswana.
Eyal Axelrod of consultancy Lexa International analyzes the supply chain.
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