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There are a limited number of commercially available diamond mines currently operating in the world, with the 50 largest mines accounting for approximately 90% of global supply. [1] Diamonds are also mined alluvially over disperse areas, where diamonds have been eroded out of the ground, deposited, and concentrated by water or weather action.
Alrosa (Russian: АЛРОСА) is a Russian group of diamond mining companies that specialize in exploration, mining, manufacture, and sale of diamonds. The company leads the world in diamond mining by volume. [2] [3] Mining takes place in Western Yakutia, the Arkhangelsk region, and Africa. Alrosa is Russia's leading diamond mining and ...
More than 66% of Russian gold production comes from just six eastern regions (Amur, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, and Sakha-Yakutia). During the past 4 years, foreign companies have controlled 15% to 18% of Russian gold production, which was the largest share held for any commodity in the Russian mining industry.
After being hit with US sanctions, Russian mining giant Alrosa is back selling more than $250 million of diamonds a month, sources told Bloomberg.
The Alexander Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Пу́шкин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ˈpuʂkʲɪn]; lit. ' Alexander Pushkin ') is a 320.65 carat [1] colorless [2] raw diamond, the second largest gem diamond ever found in Russia or the territory of the former Soviet Union (after the 26th Congress of the CPSU), and one of the largest in the world as of 2016.
Butuobinskaya diamond mine; Dalnyaya diamond mine; Ebelyakh diamond mine; Ebelyakh River diamond mine; Grib diamond mine; Internationalnaya diamond mine; Lomonosov diamond mine; Maiskoye diamond mine; Mirny GOK; Nurbinskaya diamond mine; Popigai astrobleme mine [1] Udachny GOK; Verkhne-Munskoye diamond mine; Zarnitsa mine
JSC «Severalmaz» is a Russian diamond mining company. It is a subsidiary of JSC "Alrosa" and holds a license for Europe's largest Lomonosov diamond mine, in Arkhangelsk Oblast, with reserves of 220 million carats of rough diamonds. Production in 2009 amounted to 500,000 carats of rough diamonds. [1]
The Butuobinskaya mine or Botuobinskaya mine is one of the largest diamond mines in Russia and in the world. [2] The mine is located in the north-eastern part of the country in the Sakha Republic. [2] The mine has estimated reserves of 93 million carats of diamonds and an annual production capacity of 0.2 million carats. [2]