Alrosa plans to produce at Upper Muna diamond mine 1.7 million carats a year, according to company materials.
Of ore capacity will be 3 million tons. IRR of the project is estimated at 22%. Running production is expected in 2018. Company to reach its design capacity is planned for 2019.
Balance reserves of Upper Muna is 38.3 million carats. Term development of the deposit - up to 2043. It was reported that ALROSA's investment in the development of a draft Upper Muna estimated at about 63 billion rubles. The State provides the company a grant for the development of infrastructure in the amount of 8.5 billion rubles.
Development of the Upper Muna included in the approved long-term program of development of ALROSA, providing for an increase in production to 41 million carats by 2021.
According to published on Friday, presentation of the company, ALROSA's production forecast for 2016 remains at 37 million carats in the years 2017-2018 - at 39.9 million carats. Although at the beginning of September, the President of the company Andrey Zharkov, spoke about the plan for 2017 about 39 million carats.
In 2015, Alrosa produced 38.3 million carats of diamonds.
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According to the Antwerp World Diamond Center (Antwerp World Diamond Centre, AWDC) , Belgium's polished diamond exports fell by 9.4% in 2015 to $ 13.07 billion, against a background of falling sales as the global diamond trade has faced during the year. By the volume of Belgian exports decreased by 7.1%, up to 6 million carats as the average price of the stones had fallen by 2.4%, to $ 2251 per carat.
ReplyDeleteIf we talk about the main trading partners of Belgium, the polished exports to the US decreased by 9.5%, to $ 3.59 billion, while shipments to Hong Kong decreased by 2.7%, to $ 3.46 billion. Exports to Israel fell by 23% , to $ 1.25 billion, while sales to India have decreased by 27% and amounted to $ 476.7 million.
"the global diamond industry in this (2015) year, a downturn - said in a statement on February 1 AWDC CEO Ari Epstein (Ari Epstein) . - Thanks to our strong fundamentals, as well as the ability to be flexible and accept new innovative technologies, Antwerp has succeeded in defending its leading position in both the diamond and the diamond. As a result of Antwerp will emerge from this recession stronger, ready to profitable next year. "
Total imports of polished diamonds to Belgium for the year decreased by 8.4% to $ 12.65 billion, while their net exports, which is the difference between exports and imports fell by 31%, to $ 415.8 million.
Rough imports decreased by 25 % to $ 11.13 billion and exports decreased by 27% to $ 11.5 bln. deficit net import diamonds representing the difference between imports and exports, reduced from $ 744.3 Mill. a year earlier to $ 371.6 Mill.
balance Belgian diamond trade in 2015, which is the difference between total exports and imports of rough and polished diamonds, abbr ilos by 41%, to $ 787.4 million. This figure represents the estimated value of the contribution that the diamond trade has made the country's economy.
In December, the Belgian polished exports decreased by 8.3%, to $ 995.3 million, while imports fell by 11%, to $ 819.6 million. Import of diamonds fell 18% to $ 844.7 million, while while rough exports decreased by 9.5%, to $ 1.1 billion. The balance of the Belgian diamond trade at the same time increased by 24%, to $ 430.5 million.