Saturday, February 23, 2008





Diamonds are very beautiful stones. I have always wondered where diamonds are found and how the trade system works. Now I'm going to tell you the locations of the diamonds mines and how diamonds trades goes.

Diamonds are produced in many countries such as Canada, Angola, Namibia, South Africa and Russia. The number one in diamond-producing is Angola come next Russia and the third place goes to South Africa. Some researches say that Africa is the biggest diamond producing continent.

Finding the diamonds is one thing, but trading them is another thing. De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd, this is the name of the biggest mining company in the world. Most of their diamonds comes from South Africa. The company control about 80% of the world diamonds trades. The diamonds companies sell their diamonds in cities that have reputations in diamonds trades like Antwerp and Dubai.

in conclusion, these were some information about important mines locations and important diamonds company. Diamonds sure look cool, butit will be cooler if you owned them.