Diamond Sorting, Sales to Move From London to Botswana

Botswana aims to transform itself into an international hub of the world diamond industry, boosted by a deal in which the De Beers mining and sales empire will transfer the sorting, valuing and selling of rough diamonds from London to Gaborone by the end of 2013.

Sorting diamonds in Botswana (file photo).

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