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Top Two Diamond Producing Country Botswana
Top Two Diamond Producing Country Botswana
Description
Botswana, the world's main diamond manufacturer, may manufacture 24
million carats of gems
in 2010, 36 percent more than last year, as require recovers subsequent a global economic depression.
Permanent Secretary of the Minerals, Energy, plus Water Resources Ministry Gabaake Gabaake,
speaking in Perth, Western Australia, said that "an important development in diamond
production is predictable by the end of 2010, as markets are now getting better."
In 2009, the global monetary crisis hit the diamond industry and Botswana,
one of the world's top uneven diamond producers saw diamond production plunge
by nearly half, adding up 17.7 million carats compared to 32.6 million carats in
2008. Nonetheless, the nation's rough diamond yield for 2009 accounted for 14% of
the world's total diamond manufacture by volume and 17% by value.
Arguing Botswana's new laws for the minerals sector, which he hoped to see take
consequence by the end of 2011, Gabaake said, the organization hoped to sell all diamonds
produced in Botswana within Botswana.
Diamond Collections
The production of synthetic diamond are shaped several cuts diamonds. Blue diamonds, and black diamond , Cubic diamonds are collections of Botswana.
| Rank | Country | % of Worldwide Production | Value in USD |
| 2 | Botswana | 19.90% | $1,989 |
