This allows Debswana to continue mining its Botswana belongings for the subsequent 25 years and requires De Beers to invest billions in underground expansion. To suppose that every one that has been achieved through the 54 years of agreement between De Beers and Botswana has been centred round a non-essential luxurious item! That stated, diamonds are just too important to Botswana, its economic system, and its people to allow the partnership to end – and so a deal was struck. At current Russian rough is flowing to the cutting centres and despite the present market and costs being compelled downwards, …