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Global diamond miner De Beers has reported an 88% year-on-year increase in rough diamond production to 7.8-million carats for the second quarter of this year, taking the company’s output for the first half of this year to 14.91-million carats – a 46% year-on-year increase.
The company says the higher second-quarter production reflected the impact of the extended maintenance shutdown at its Orapa mine, in Botswana, in the second quarter of.
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