Alrosa’s Diamond Export Permits Renewed

Russia’s list of approved rough diamond exporters is unchanged in 2010. The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has renewed the export permits of Alrosa and a number of its subsidiaries as well as for a number of miners and federal companies, according to an Interfax report.

The seven approved companies are Alrosa and its subsidiaries OJSC Alrosa-Nyurba, OJSC Almazy Aanbara and OJSC Severalmaz; and OJSC Nizhne-Lenskoye, CJSC Uralal-maz and Almazjuvelirexport.

Almazjuvelirexport exports goods owned by the precious metals and gemstones repository Gokhran.

Russia exported 8.183 million carats of rough diamonds worth $571.52 million in the January-September period, according to the country’s Finance Ministry and based on Kimberley Process records.