De Beers’ rough diamond sales for second sales cycle of 2023
Anglo American plc announces the value of rough diamond sales (Global Sightholder Sales and Auctions) for De Beers’ second sales cycle of 2023, amounting to $495 million.
The provisional rough diamond sales figure quoted for Cycle 2 represents the expected sales value for the period 20 February and 7 March and remains subject to adjustment based on final completed sales.
Al Cook, CEO, De Beers Group, said: “In this, my first Sight update to the market, I am pleased to see continued steady demand for rough diamonds in line with our expectations for sales as the year progresses. For example, we know that Sightholders planned more of their purchases for later in 2023, given the economic uncertainty at the time they were taking their planning decisions at the end of 2022. It is also encouraging to see some positive trends in end client demand for diamond jewellery at the start of the year.”
Anglo American is a major global mining company and its portfolio of world-class competitive operations, with a broad range of future development options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing every day demands of billions of consumers.
As a responsible producer of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum group metals, premium quality iron ore and steelmaking coal, and nickel – with crop nutrients in development – the company is committed to being carbon neutral across its operations by 2040.
