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Angola
Alrosa works on exit (and return) strategy for Catoca diamond mine

Ongoing sanctions have pushed the Russian giant to negotiate the sale of its shares to a 'friendly' investor, with the possibility of buying them back should the winds of politics turn back in its favour. [...]

Published on 16/05/2024 at 05:40 GMT

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Sociedade Mineira de Catoca

In Focus | Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Botswana, the source of most of De Beers's diamonds, is challenging the diamond giant by favouring an Antwerp start-up to cut and market its stones. Meanwhile, its parent company Anglo American has put the group up for sale, to little interest.

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Lourenço appoints top army officer Mussua Williams to combat diamond trafficking

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Low output causes headache for Endiama's Lunhinga diamond mine

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Rio Tinto keeps close eye on progress at Chiri diamonds project

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Alrosa stakes indirect claim in SML

The Russian diamond giant will only have indirect shares in the new kimberlite mine in Luele in north-eastern Angola. An unknown Emirati company is its third-biggest shareholder with 19.5%.

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Angola
Alrosa negotiates exit from Catoca diamond mine

The sanctions-hit Russian diamond giant Alrosa wants to pull out of Angola and is in talks with its Angolan homologue, Endiama.

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Office of Russian diamond producer Alrosa in Moscow, 27 April 2022.

In Focus | Angola, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe
Sanctions-hit Alrosa's woes impact on continent's diamond producers

The West's sanctions on the Russian mining colossus Alrosa, the world's largest diamond producer, are taking a huge toll on Angola, its main partner. That has left the field open for the world's second largest diamond producer, Botswana, to charge ahead.

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Angolan President Joao Lourenco (C) watches as Endiama CEO Jose Manuel Augusto Ganga Junior (L) shakes hands with Alrosa CEO Sergei Ivanov (R), in the Kremlin in Moscow, 4 April 2019.

Spotlight | Africa, Russia
Ukraine-Russia: Oligarchs' African mining projects struck hard by economic sanctions

As the mining industry struggles to take in the impact of the historic sanctions slapped on Russian banks and capital by Washington, Brussels and London, Russia's private and state-owned mining firms on the continent are preparing for when their funds run dry.

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The Russian mining group Rusal, controlled by Oleg Deripaska, produces bauxite in Guinea.

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Angola Alrosa negotiates exit from Catoca diamond mine

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Angola
Alrosa works on exit (and return) strategy for Catoca diamond mine

In Focus | Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Angola
Lourenço appoints top army officer Mussua Williams to combat diamond trafficking

Angola
Low output causes headache for Endiama's Lunhinga diamond mine

Angola
Rio Tinto keeps close eye on progress at Chiri diamonds project

Angola
Alrosa stakes indirect claim in SML

Angola
Alrosa negotiates exit from Catoca diamond mine

In Focus | Angola, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe
Sanctions-hit Alrosa's woes impact on continent's diamond producers

Spotlight | Africa, Russia
Ukraine-Russia: Oligarchs' African mining projects struck hard by economic sanctions