Revenue De Beers in the eighth cycle of sales fell to $ 485 million, versus $ 639 million as part of the seventh cycle.
The latest data on sales, however, are only preliminary and will be revised next month.
"The demand for De Beers diamonds in the eighth cycle, continued to reflect improvements in the diamond trade as compared to 2015", - said Bryus Kliver (Bruce Cleaver), CEO of De Beers.
"Our diamond sales were slightly higher than expected in the eighth cycle, taking into account normal seasonal fluctuations in demand, the shorter the period between the end of the seventh and the beginning of the eighth cycle, and holidays in a number of the world's largest diamond cutting and polishing centers," - he added.
Global sales of diamond cutters have fallen by 30% from 2014 to 2015, to $ 13.7 billion, says the De Beers.
At the same time, the global diamond production in 2015 fell by 10% compared to 2014 and totaled $ 17.5 billion.
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Diamcor Mining managed to get two special diamond weighing 11.64 and 12.73 carats at its site Krohn-Endora (Krone-Endora) Venice Project (Venetia) in South Africa.
The company said that the diamonds were mined with the help of a new screening plant Tomra XRT, recently commissioned on the project. It is expected that the diamonds to be sold by tender in the next fiscal quarter.
In the reporting quarter, the company special diamonds weighing 12.78 carats and 7.50 carats were sold, also obtained by this technology.
Meanwhile, the company noted that the integration of Tomra XRT system has been carried out to test the effects of further concentration and reduce rock fractions processed in the main plant of the company.
In addition, it is expected that the new system will reduce the overall consumption of water needed for processing of rocks, as well as reduce operating costs. This can be achieved by reducing the volume of the double processing of the material produced during the initial testing equipment.
In Diamcor also said that the company granted stock options to purchase a total of 2,800,000 ordinary shares of a number of managers, directors and employees of the company.
All options can be used to purchase shares at a price of $ 1 per unit for five years.
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