Firestone completes inaugural diamond tender
Friday, December 17, 2010
The tender ran from 29 November to 9 December 2010, and was attended by more than 30 diamond buyers from Belgium, Israel, India, Russia and southern Africa.
The diamonds sold at the tender were from its BK11 Mine in Botswana and Liqhobong Mine in Lesotho. "The company sold a total of 14, 673 carats by tender at the Diamond Technology Park in Botswana for total proceeds of US$1.6m," the company says in a statement.
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