{"id":982691,"date":"2018-09-05T16:08:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=982691"},"modified":"2018-09-05T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:08:58","slug":"alrosa-brings-coloured-diamonds-to-hong-kong-in-effort-to-conquer-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=982691","title":{"rendered":"Alrosa brings coloured diamonds to Hong Kong in effort to conquer China"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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World’s top diamond producer by output Alrosa (MCX:ALRS) is stepping up efforts to tap into the Chinese market in an attempt to catch up with main rival De Beers in a market that has shown stable growth.<\/p>\n

The Russian miner currently supplies at least 5% of its rough diamonds to China (around $180 million in sales), but it believes that it could do more, such as selling directly to jewellery retailers.<\/p>\n

As part of its plans to expand into that market, Alrosa will hold its first \u201cTrue Colour\u201d auction<\/a> of coloured polished diamonds, during the Hong Kong Gem & Jewellery Fair taking place this month.<\/p>\n

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15-cartas orange-yellow diamond. (Courtesy of Alrosa.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The collection includes 250 polished diamonds of various shapes and colours \u2014 purple, pink, orange and vivid-yellow stones with certificates provided by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).<\/p>\n

The star of the show, says Alrosa, will be a fancy deep purple-pink cushion of 11 carat. According to GIA, the diamond is the largest of this colour ever certified by them.<\/p>\n

Another hero stone of the collection are a vivid orange-yellow diamond of over 15 carats and a cushion-shaped 11-carat of fancy vivid yellow.<\/p>\n

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Cushion-shaped 11-carat fancy vivid yellow. (Courtesy of Alrosa.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIt took more than a year to prepare the collection,\u201d the company’s chief executive, Yury Okoemov, said in the statement<\/a>. \u201cIt is a masterpiece of diamond production created by skillful professionals who put heart into their work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company, which aims at leading the coloured diamond market, will sell these stones via a special electronic platform. The auction, it noted, will become a regular happening once or twice a year and Alrosa expects to be able to hold it in mainland China as well.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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By Cecilia Jamasmie World’s top diamond producer by output Alrosa (MCX:ALRS) is stepping up efforts to tap into the Chinese market in an attempt to catch up with main rival De Beers in a market that has shown stable growth. The Russian miner currently supplies at least 5% of its rough diamonds to China (around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}