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His visit is timed to coincide with the opening of the IDE International Tender Center.

The Israel Diamond Exchange is new features, special guests and free attractions to make this event even more advantageous to international buyers.

Registration via a specially created web site will be available soon, and the WFDB will announce it as soon as it goes online.

IDE President Yoram Dvash is calling on members of all diamond bourses affiliated to the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) to attend the event.

The auction was 80 percent sold by lot and 84 percent sold by value, attracting 149 buyers from 23 countries.

ALROSA's rough prices have been adjusted up or down by only about 2 percent at its monthly sales this year.

With rough producers’ revised output plans across the industry and other mine expansions, production worldwide next year could rise by 2.5 percent to 130 million carats.

It also said that total sales declined by 2.5% in the quarter on the year-earlier period to $1.2 billion.

In total, the firm generated income of $38.7 million from its sale of exceptional rough stones.

The company also stated that the sales figure for the eighth cycle was $494 million from the provisional figure of $485 million.

Sarine is carrying out large-scale testing in India based on computerized methodology for grading a polished diamond’s clarity.

DiamTech will enable technology companies and high-tech service providers to present their latest innovations in diamond manufacturing, computerized decision-making systems, diamond scanning and imaging and e-commerce technologies.