Russia is the world’s largest producer of diamonds. I toured a mine in Siberia that produced 1.4 million carats of diamonds in 2018 — here’s what it was like.

• Russia is the world’s largest producer of diamonds by volume.
• More than 43 million carats were mined in Russia in 2018.
• On a recent trip to Russia, I flew from Moscow to Siberia to visit a diamond mine operated by Alrosa, the world’s largest diamond miner by volume.
• The Botuobinskaya open-pit mine operates 24 hours per day year-round and produced 1.4 million carats in 2018.
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Russia mined more than 43 million carats in 2018 — that’s almost 30% of world production. The second-largest producer, Botswana, mined 24.3 million carats.

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Source : BusinessInsider.Com