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Global Diamond Mining
Within a century, the hard labor of mining by hand, has evolved into industry where hi-tech machinery performs the hard work. However, only little hardness has been lost.
Worldwide there are about 500 significant sites, where a few of them are really profitable for the industrial mining of rough diamonds. The most important mining regions are Russia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Botswana and Canada. In addition to Australia, other African countries, small parts of South America and the People’s Republic of China also play a role – with China providing very little support, but leading synthetic diamond production ahead of America, Russia and Ireland.
In 2017, some 150 million carats – worth some 16 billion US dollars – were produced worldwide: 35% in Russia, 22% in Botswana, 14% in Canada, 8% in Angola, 7% in South Africa, 5% in Namibia and 3% in Australia. More than 180 million carats were forecast for 2018.
