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  • Russian miner ALROSA announced its preliminary rough and polished sales results for January totaled $325 million. Rough diamond sales equaled $315 million and polished sales $10 million.

  • Russian diamond miner ALROSA reported the company’s diamond production equaled 32.4 million carats in 2021. They sold 45.5 million carats with proceeds equaling $4.2 billion, $4 billion from rough and $200 million from polished diamond sales. Gem-quality diamonds accounted for 67% of total sales. In 2021, revenue per carat for these gem-quality diamonds equaled $128, a year-on-year increase of 17%.

  • Rough & Polished reports, based on a local TV interview with CEO Sergei Ivanov, that the company is optimistic about restoration of the Mir diamond mine, and is in the final stage of a feasibility study which will determine the course of action, to be decided by a review committee in H1 of 2022.