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ALROSA tallies up results of International Diamond Week in Israel

01 march 2017

ALROSA, the world’s largest diamond producer by volume, reported the results of the international diamond auction, which took place within the Sixth International Diamond Week in Israel (IDWI) offering for sale special-size natural rough diamonds, as well as polished goods.
The company sold 105 lots of rough and polished diamonds worth $ 21.8 million during the trading session held on 13-16 February, 2017 in the City of Ramat Gan, Israel. The auction was attended by 119 buyers from 30 countries.

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This time, ALROSA put on the block diamonds from the collection of Cities of Yakutia produced by Diamonds ALROSA, the miner’s subsidiary. The lots included a unique round diamond, the Star of Vilyuysk, weighing 80.59 carats. Currently, it is the largest diamond of a round cut with 57 facets manufactured by Diamonds ALROSA and one of the largest in the world in this segment.
Star of Vilyuysk is one of the ten polished diamonds produced from the 235-carat rough diamond, City of Vilyuysk recovered at the Yubileynaya Mine in 2013. It took more than nine months of hard work for Diamonds ALROSA’s craftsmen to cut and polish the giant diamond.
Diamonds ALROSA is a diamond cutting operation owned by the parent company and one of the biggest diamond manufacturers in Russia. Diamonds ALROSA sells diamonds of round and fancy cuts in the domestic and overseas markets offering goods of a complete product mix in terms of size, weight, color and quality.