At current market prices, what is the dollar value of 2 million carats of rough diamonds?
Today it is worth about $145 million. At the moment the market is unfavourable but we are investing over the long term. We have covered finance and production, we would now like to move on the issue of conflict diamonds. As someone working inside the diamond business do you feel affected by the media hype surrounding conflict diamonds? You have to differentiate kimberlite diamonds from alluvial alluvial diamonds. We produce kimberlite diamonds. We do not suffer from poachers mining on our concessions. In my personal opinion, the Angolan government has been creating good solutions to mitigate the risk of conflict diamonds leaving Angola. Is the area of the country were you operate affected by UNITA activity? Yes it is. The province of Lunda South is a conflict area. Although we are not involved, there are a lot of rivers in this region which is where the alluvial diamond deposits are found. We are suffering a lot from this. What exactly do you mean by suffering a lot? Your production pl
