List of the largest diamond producers

The main diamond producers

The list of the largest diamond producers shows tables and graphs with precise information on the subject of diamonds .

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In 2009, 121.3 million carats of natural diamonds (jewelry and industrial diamonds) were mined (2008 = 165.2 million carats). Compared to the previous year, the decrease is 26.6 percent. According to the British Geological Survey, the highest level of world production was reached in 2006 at 176.9 million carats. The major producers of natural diamonds in 2009 were Russia (34.8 million carats), Democratic Republic of the Congo (21.3 million carats), Botswana (17.7 million carats), Angola (13.8 million carats) and Canada (10.9 million carats) Million carats). These five states together had a share of 81.2 percent of world production.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), 4,550 million carats of synthetic diamonds were produced in 2008 (2007 = 4,550 million carats). The largest producers were the People's Republic of China (4,000 million carats), the USA (261 million carats), Russia (80 million carats), Ireland (60 million carats) and South Africa (60 million carats). These five states together had a share of 98.0 percent of world production.

The USGS estimated the eligible reserves of industrial diamonds in 2010 at 580 million carats worldwide. The Democratic Republic of the Congo accounted for 25.9 percent, Botswana for 22.4 percent, Australia for 16.4 percent, South Africa for 12.1 percent and Russia for 6.9 percent. In Europe there is an occurrence near Arkhangelsk .

The world production of natural diamonds (for example by De Beers and the Rio Tinto Group ) no longer covers the needs of industry by far. Only 23 percent of the diamonds produced were natural diamonds, 77 percent synthetically produced diamonds whose properties such as toughness, crystal habit, conductivity and purity can be precisely determined. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the demand for jewelry diamonds in particular has increased, so that prices have increased several times. The main sales markets for jewelry diamonds are the USA (48 percent), East Asia (20 percent), India and the Middle East (15 percent), and Europe (10 percent).

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Natural diamonds by country

The table shows the countries with the largest production of natural diamonds (jewelry and industrial diamonds) in thousands of carats. All figures relate to the states within their current borders.

Figures in thousands of carats

Rank (2014)	country	1970	1980	1990	2000	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
1.	Russia	7,850	10,850	24,000	29,200	38,361	38.291	36,925	34,759	34,857	35,140	34,928	37,884	38,304	41,912
2.	Botswana	464	5.101	17,352	24,660	34,293	33,639	32,595	17,734	22,019	22,903	20,478	22,693	24,658	20,824
3.	Congo, DR	14,087	10,235	19,427	17,700	28,990	28,452	33,402	21,298	20,166	19,249	20,140	17,624	14,663	14,284
4th	Australia	0	48	34,662	26,568	29,308	19,231	15,670	10,795	9,998	7,562	8,626	11,482	9,288	13,561
5.	Canada	0	0	0	2,534	13,234	17.008	14,803	10,946	11,773	10,795	10,529	10,562	12,082	11,600
6th	Angola	2,396	1,480	1,133	4,311	9,175	9,702	8,907	13,828	8,362	8,328	8,331	8,602	8,791	9,016
7th	South Africa	8,112	8,520	8,708	10,790	15,153	15,247	12,901	6.119	8,871	7,047	7,245	8,168	8,060	8.233
8th.	Zimbabwe	0	0	0	23	1,046	695	797	964	8,435	8,503	12,060	10,412	4,772	3,491
9.	Namibia	1,865	1,560	763	1,556	2,356	2,266	2,435	1,192	1,476	1,299	1,667	1,776	1,897	1,988
10.	Sierra Leone	1,955	592	78	77	582	604	371	400	438	356	533	605	594	500
11.	Lesotho	17th	54	0	2	231	229	253	92	109	224	479	414	346	304
12.	Tanzania	708	274	85	354	272	283	238	182	80	28	127	180	253	216
13.	Ghana	2,550	1,258	650	990	959	839	598	354	309	283	215	159	241	174
14th	Guinea	74	38	127	369	474	1,019	3,098	697	374	235	267	202	164	162
15th	Guyana	61	10	18th	82	341	269	169	144	50	52	41	64	100	118
16.	Liberia	812	298	100	170	11	22nd	47	37	22nd	40	34	44	75	66
17th	Congo, R.	0	0	0	0	0	22nd	110	68	381	77	52	56	53	40
18th	India	20th	14th	18th	57	2	1	1	17th	20th	18th	32	38	36	36
19th	Brazil	300	667	1,500	1,000	181	182	80	21st	25th	46	46	49	57	32
20th	Ivory Coast	k. A.	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	1	15th
21st	Cameroon	0	0	0	0	12	12	12	12	12	5	5	5	6th	5
22nd	People's Republic of China	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0.2	2	1	k. A.
23.	Togo	0	0	0	0	0.025	0.013	0.009	0.013	0.096	0.071	0.456	0.024	0.023	0.046
24.	Central Africa. Rep.	482	342	381	348	420	468	377	310	302	324	366	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.

Synthetic diamonds by country

All figures relate to the states within their current borders.

Figures in millions of carats

Rank (2008)	country	1990	2000	2005	2006	2007	2008
1.	People's Republic of China	3,600	3,800	3,800	3,900	4,000	4,000
2.	United States	0	182	256	258	260	261
3.	Russia	80	80	80	80	80	80
4th	Ireland	60	60	60	60	60	60
5.	South Africa	60	60	60	60	60	60
6th	Japan	25th	33	34	34	34	34
7th	Belarus	30th	25th	25th	25th	25th	25th
8th.	Sweden	25th	20th	20th	20th	20th	20th
9.	Ukraine	10	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th
10.	France	5	3	3	3	3	3

Rough diamonds by company

The company, the country in which the head office is located, the volume extracted, the proportion of global production and the cumulative frequency are listed .

Figures in million carats (2004)

rank	Companies	country	amount	Percentage ownership %	Accumulation
1.	De Beers	Luxembourg	58.9	37.8	37.8
2.	Rio Tinto Group	Australia  United Kingdom	25.2	16.2	54.0
3.	ALROSA	Russia	23.5	15.1	69.1
4th	Leviev Group	Israel	5.5	3.5	72.6
5.	BHP Billiton	Australia  United Kingdom	4.1	2.6	75.2

Diamond Sales (2014)

rank	Companies	Sales in millions of US dollars	Quantity in millions of carats
1.	De Beers	6,494	32.7
2.	ALROSA	4,886	39.6
3.	Rio Tinto Group	901	13.9
4th	Dominion Diamond Corporation	817	4.8
5.	Petra Diamonds	502	3.1
6th	Gem diamonds	277	0.1
7th	Lucara Diamond	266	0.4
8th.	Kimberley Diamonds	90	0.1
	Total	14,787	127.6

World production of industrial diamonds

The following table shows the worldwide production of industrial diamonds in tons.

Figures in tons

year Prod. 1938 2.20 1939 2.20 1940 2.85 1941 1.87 1942 1.94 1943 2.01 1944 2.09 1945 2.16 1946 2.23 1947 2.30 1948 2.38 1949 2.45 1950 2.52 1951 2.82 1952 3.16

year Prod. 1953 3.28 1954 3.36 1955 3.50 1956 3.66 1957 4.16 1958 4.48 1959 4.18 1960 4.20 1961 5.44 1962 5.53 1963 6.05 1964 6.02 1965 5.86 1966 6.21 1967 6.25

year Prod. 1968 5.18 1969 5.42 1970 5.84 1971 5.78 1972 6.25 1973 6.12 1974 6.57 1975 6.12 1976 5.92 1977 6.08 1978 6.03 1979 5.84 1980 6.51 1981 5.92 1982 6.04

year Prod. 1983 6.47 1984 7.47 1985 7.96 1986 10.70 1987 10.10 1988 59.30 1989 76.10 1990 77.50 1991 95.60 1992 93.40 1993 100.00 1994 98.90 1995 100.00 1996 101.00 1997 103.00

year Prod. 1998 106.00 1999 96.20 2000 96.90 2001 113.00 2002 119.00 2003 117.00 2004 901.00 2005 861.00 2006 880.00 2007 900.00 2008 898.00 2009 887.00

Industrial diamond reserves

The United States Geological Survey offers the following definition of this: The reserve base is that part of an identified resource that meets the specific minimum physical and chemical criteria for current mining and production practices, including those for grade , Quality , thickness and depth . The reserves are that part of the supply base that could be economically extracted or produced at a given time. The term does not have to mean that extraction systems are installed and working. Reserves only contain exploitable substances.

The countries with the highest production and the highest reserves in tons are listed. The publication of data on the stock base was discontinued in 2009.

Figures in million carats (2010)

rank	country	advancement	Reserves
1.	Russia	15th	40
2.	DR Congo	14th	150
3.	Australia	11	95
4th	Botswana	7th	130
5.	South Africa	3	70
6th	People's Republic of China	1	10
7th	Other countries	4th	85
	world	55	580

See also

• World Association of Diamond Exchanges

literature

• Fischer World Almanac. Numbers-data-facts , 1960 ff. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag

Web links

• US Geological Survey (English)
• British Geological Survey (English)
• List at Index Mundi (English)
• World mining data from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, Family and Youth, Austria

Individual evidence

1. ^ British Geological Survey: World Mineral Production 2011-2015. British Geological Survey, 2014, p. 22. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
2. ↑ United States Geological Survey: Industrial Diamonds Statistics and Information
3. ↑ Rapaport: De Beers-Alrosa Notice ( Memento of January 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
4. ↑ Martin Rapaport: Rough bubble bust (pdf) Rapaport USA. December 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
5. ↑ United States Geological Survey: World Production (PDF; 289 kB)
6. ↑ United States Geological Survey: World Mine Production and Reserves (PDF; 27 kB)