Diamonds have always been a luxury sought after by people. Diamonds have many uses. The most well-known is to make diamond rings and wedding rings. Do you know who the seven famous diamond mining companies in the world are? The following small series will give you a detailed introduction
1: De Beers is the world's diamond cartel and multinational company. One stop dominates 40% of the world's diamond mining and trade. It is the world's largest diamond mining company. Cecil & middot; Rhodes founded De Beers in 1888 and is now headquartered in Luxembourg. Its main businesses include diamond ore mining, trade, industrial diamond production and processing, etc. diamond mines are mainly located in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Canada. Mining includes open-pit mining, underground mining, large-scale alluvial mines, coastal mining and deep-sea mining.
2: Elsa is a Russian state-controlled diamond company and a leader in the diamond mining industry in the world. Elsa diamond company, founded in 1992, is headquartered in Siberia. It is the world's second largest diamond producer after De Beers and one of the top ten most effective enterprises in Russia. Diamond reserves account for about one third of the world's diamond resources and more than 90% of Russia's overall diamond production. The company has more than 16000 employees in over 20 countries worldwide. Diamond mines are mainly located in Namibia, Canada, South Africa and Botswana. It is the world's largest exploration, mining and sales company of rough embryo diamonds, supplying 60% of embryo diamonds and 40% of gem grade diamonds in the world market.
3: Dominion diamond mines is a Canadian professional diamond mining company headquartered in Calgary and Alberta, Canada. The company holds 40 per cent of the Diavik diamond mine project and began producing diamonds in November 2002. In 2012, the company purchased all of BHP Billiton's diamond assets, mainly Ekati diamond mine and adjacent to Diavik mine. In 2014, Diavik and Ekati produced more than 7 million carats of diamonds.
4: Gem diamonds is a diamond company founded in 2005, headquartered in London, UK, with sales, marketing and manufacturing capacity in Belgium. It is a leading global high-value diamond producer. Gem Diamonds owns Letseng diamond mine in Lesotho and Ghaghoo diamond mine in Botswana. Letseng mine is famous for producing large top color white diamonds, making it the mine with the highest average price per carat of kimberlite diamond mine in the world. Since its acquisition in 2006, the mine has produced five largest white gem diamonds, while only 20 largest diamonds are known in history.
5:Lucara Diamond, a diamond exploration and mining company, was founded in 2004 and has Karowe diamond mine in Botswana. It was put into production in 2012 and is one of the most important LLA diamond producers in the world. On November 18, 2015, a diamond named 'Lesedi La Rona' was found in the mining area. The diamond weighs 1.111 carats and is the second largest gem diamond in the world (second only to 3.106 carat tourmaline). A day later, two other diamonds weighing 813 and 374 carats were found. These diamonds came from the AK6 pipeline in the same mining area. Since then, more than 1 million carats of diamonds have been produced here.
6: Petra diamond company is a leading and independent diamond mining group. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in New Jersey. Petra has the most productive diamond mine in the world in history. The famous curinan diamond mine, finsch, Cullinan, koffiefontein and Kimberley underground in South Africa and Williamson mine in Tanzania, with a total diamond volume of about 300 million carats. Finsch diamond mine is one of the heaviest diamond mines in the world. Cullinan is the second largest diamond resource in the world with in-situ value. Koffefonein is one of the world's top diamond mines.
7: Founded in 1873, Rio Tinto Group is a multinational mining and resource group, which is also engaged in coal, iron, copper, gold, diamond and other businesses. Its headquarters are in London, UK and Melbourne, Australia. Rio Tinto owns and operates the argyle diamond mine in East Kimberley, Australia, and owns 60% of the Diavik diamond mine in remote northern Canada. Argyle diamond mine produces Australia's largest powder diamond 'Argyle powder diamond', weighing 12.76 carats, which can be called an exquisite treasure.