The New York diamond industry analyst published a report evaluating the shares of each of the top 15 diamond mining leaders in the world market, Israelidiamond.co.il reported, citing Mining.com.
In a report titled Analyzing Trends in the Global Diamond Industry, published online, Paul Zimnisky analyzes the changes in the ratio of market shares held by diamond mining leaders over the past decades.
According to Zimnitski, De Beers lost its leading position in the diamond industry and fell to the second position - now it provides 20.2% of all diamond supplies. The first place was taken by ALROSA, which, according to the analyst, controls 27.4% of the world's diamond supplies. However, De Beers also controls the sale of diamonds by companies that occupy 3rd, 8th and 12th places in the list through its diamond trading company, which means that, in fact, 35% of global supplies of rough diamonds are under its control.
The governments of the three bordering African countries - Botswana, Angola and Namibia - ranked 3rd, 6th and 8th in the list, providing 10.6%, 6.3% and 3.1% of the world's supply of diamonds respectively . The Marange region in Zimbabwe ranks 9th - Marange diamonds account for 2.5% of global supplies, and the Lesotho government is ranked 13th, meeting 0.8% of global demand for diamonds.
Five diamond mining companies - Dominion Diamonds, Petra Diamonds, Gem Diamonds, Lucara Diamonds and Trans Hex - occupy the 4th, 7th, 10th, 11th and 14th places on the list, providing 7.2%, 3 , 2%, 1.7%, 1.1% and 0.6% of global supplies, respectively. The remaining three of the 15 leading positions are occupied by the diversified mining company Rio Tinto (which is on the fifth place with 6.7% of global supplies), investment company Ponahalo (12th place with 1.1% share in world supplies) and LUKOIL oil company (15th place, 0.5% of global supplies).