De Beers Tweaks Sight Boxes to Support Small Rough

Miner moves 2-carat goods out of beneficiation ranges.
An employee of Namdeb, a joint venture between De Beers and the Namibian government, sorting rough diamonds by Ben Perry/Armoury Films/De Beers image

De Beers has adjusted its rough-diamond assortments for next year in a move that sightholders see as a tactic for handling weakness in small goods.

The miner has removed 8-grainer (2-carat) stones from its 2- to 4-carat boxes, and instead will sell them as part of the 4- to 6-grainer (1 to 1.50-carat) batches, sources told Rapaport News this week. These assortments will respectively become…

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