Diamond demand/supply gap to widen next year

The gap between the demand for, and the supply of, diamonds is set to widen from 2008, thanks mainly to a surging demand in India and China, Tawana Resources MD Wolf Marx said last week.

He added that the size of the diamond-consuming market in the two Asian countries is expected to grow from 33-million consumers to 65-million consumers by 2015.

In another development, he said the worldwide budget for diamond exploration had risen from $250-million in 2002 to $850-million in 2006, adding that many of the current diamond mines were beyond their production peaks, and exploration and acquisition focus was shifting back to Africa, where there was a new diamond rush.

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