Diamond miner De Beers last week reported that the value of its rough diamond sales for Cycle 2 of the year was $490-million, compared with $500-million in Cycle 1 and $563-million in Cycle 2 of 2018.
This brings the provisional total for rough diamond sales to date to $990-million.
De Beers sold about $5.39-billion of rough diamonds in 2018, and about $5.31-billion in 2017.