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ALROSA Keeps Prices Stable Amid Stronger Rough Demand
Jan 28, 2016 4:42 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... ALROSA
kept prices steady at its January contract sale stressing it sees no reason for
prices to fall in current market conditions.
“We left
prices unchanged because we see no reasons right now for them to fall,
especially given they even rose slightly at the end of last year,” Andrey
Zharkov, president of the Russia-based miner, was quoted as saying by the Russian
news service Interfax.
Demand for rough in January was
better than expected while supply levels did not increase, sources close to
ALROSA explained to Rapaport News. The miner once again allowed buyers
to defer up to 70 percent of goods at the sale as it did at the previous sale
in December. Clients said all goods were sold at the sale.
The news comes after De Beers cut
rough prices by more than 5 percent on average at its first sightholder
sale of the year in Gaborone, Botswana, earlier this month, according to Rapaport
News sources. De Beers reported January revenue increased to $540 million compared with $248
million in the final sales cycle of 2015.
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Tags:
Alrosa, andrey zharkov, mining, Rapaport News, Rough Diamonds, rough sale
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