Lucapa Diamond Company received $ 3 million from the sale of two lots of alluvial diamonds total weight of 2670 carats at an average price of $ 1132 per carat in the second quarter, which ended in June 2016.
Thus, in the first half diamond Lucapa sales reached $ 26.2 million, while the average price of diamonds - $ 5686 per carat.
However, in Lucapa noted that in the annual report 2581 was produced quarter carat diamond at slightly lower concentrations in the rock at 7 carats per hundred cubic meters. 30 was recovered diamond special weight to 88 carats, and a 13-carat yellow diamond. Compared to the second quarter of 2015 production growth was 80%.
The average size of the diamond, mining companies increased from 0.8 carats to 1.3 carats in spite of the fact that the size of the grid cells at the processing plant remained unchanged and amounted to 1.5 mm.
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According to media reports, the company De Beers Canada plans to spend more than $ 2 billion to flood the underground workings of the diamond mine, Snap Lake (Snap Lake) in northern Canada, for the construction and operation of which De Beers by the end of 2014. Construction of the mine began in 2005, and he was put into operation in 2008.
Due to the deteriorating situation De Beers rough diamonds on the market was forced to close the project, as diamond mining it became unprofitable. In addition, a constant problem at the mine is an excess of ground water that must be pumped, in connection with which De Beers Canada intends to develop a transfer plan for the mine maintenance with its partial or complete flooding, in order to avoid the cost of draining the mines, cycling pumping stations.
According to Tom Ormsby (Tom Ormsby), head of the department of external relations De Beers Canada, flooding, as a rule, without prejudice to the mines and is quite a common practice in the preservation of underground workings.
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