The country’s rough diamonds mines in 2013 stood at 8 million carats. This year, expectations are that industrial scale mining companies would extract 9.5 million carats of diamonds and artisanal miners would contribute another 550,000 carats, reports say. Although there had been a low production in May, the Minister noted it was due to mill maintenance at the country’s largest mine - Catoca mine, and that this was a temporary phase, reports add.
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