(IDEX Online) - Alrosa has announced that for December 2019, it sold $363.8 million worth of rough and polished diamonds (+11% year-over-year). Rough diamond sales by value amounted to $352.1 million, with polished diamond sales totaling $11.6 million.
The company's total rough and polished diamond sales for 2019 amounted to $3.338 billion. During the year, Alrosa's total rough diamonds sales reached $3.273 billion while polished diamond sales totaled $64.7 million.
"In December, we observed signs of stabilizing diamond demand that had emerged earlier in the second half of the year amid the gradual restoration of market balance. This was largely supported by a flexible sales strategy of mining companies," said Alrosa deputy CEO Evgeny Agureev.
Rough diamonds + grinding powders, $ mln* | Polished diamonds, $ mln** | Total rough + polished diamonds, $ mln | |
January | 278.2 | 3.4 | 281.6 |
February | 340.6 | 5.0 | 345.6 |
March | 369.2 | 8.0 | 377.1 |
April | 315.8 | 2.9 | 318.7 |
May | 261.1 | 5.0 | 266.0 |
June | 219.3 | 3.1 | 222.4 |
July | 164.6 | 5.9 | 170.5 |
August | 180.2 | 1.5 | 181.8 |
September | 256.5 | 2.2 | 258.7 |
October | 253.9 | 10.4 | 264.4 |
November | 282.1 | 5.8 | 287.8 |
December | 352.1 | 11.6 | 363.8 |
Total | 3,273.5 | 64.7 | 3,338.1 |
*Including rough diamonds sales to Kristall Production Corporation
** Excluding sales of polished diamonds produced by Kristall Production Corporation