Country overtook Botswana in 2023.
Funds will help miner pay off debts to joint-venture partner De Beers.
Company to dismiss workers at South Africa’s Finsch and Cullinan mines.
Following talks with Angolan government, company ups stake to 51% from 39%.
Russian miner will also hold tender for approximately $12 million in special-size stones.
Cushion-cut stone hails from the Cullinan mine in South Africa.
Move is in response to American taxes on European steel and aluminum.
All 36 diamonds exceed 10 carats, with seven topping 60 carats.
Revenue up 10% for full year, while profit more than quintuples.
Items costing less than $5,000 showed strongest consumer demand.
For the first time, more than half of couples The Knot surveyed chose synthetic stones.