ALROSA Recovers 62.75 Carat Diamond at Jubilee Pipe

Moscow: Russia’s Alrosa, the world's top diamond producer by output, said Tuesday it found a 65.75-carat precious rock at the Jubilee kimberlite pipe of its Aikhalsky Mining unit in Yakutia, northeast Russia.

A transparent crystal in the form of an octahedron with a slight yellowish tinge and insignificant inclusions of sulfides in the near-surface zone has dimensions of 23 x 16 x 17 mm. The Aikhal Mining and Processing Division (MPD), established in 1986, mines diamonds at the following deposits: Jubilee and Komsomolsky open-pits, Aikhal underground mine. Share in ALROSA Group’s production totaled 33% in 2016 and the division employs more than 4,300 people. The plant's share in total diamond output of the ALROSA Group in 2016 was over 30%. In 2016, the Jubilee pipe produced 9.231 million carats, while the division produced 12.225 million carats of diamonds worth 1.2 billion US dollars. In 2016, around 1,200 large crystals were mined here. 28 of them had weight over 50 carats.

  • ALROSA Recovers 62.75 Carat Diamond at Jubilee Pipe