Strong gains seen in rough diamond prices
Friday, October 15, 2010
"We have seen a rapid recovery and prices are back to pre-crisis levels," Harry Kenyon-Slaney, chief executive officer of diamonds and minerals at London-based Rio, said in an interview with Bloomberg. "What we see going forward is a long decline in production and a significant growth in demand."
Diamond miners are struggling to keep pace with growing consumption in emerging economies as older mines are exhausted and producers lack new discoveries.
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