Her last name meaning “exemplary” suits her as no one else: the artist fanatically devoted to music, the singer for whom her profession is her passion and the paramount sense of life, the magnetic personality, Elena Obraztsova is the first Russian singer who received the status of a legend of the world vocal.
For many decades, the gold mining industry of the Soviet Union remained one of the largest in the world holding the well-balanced second place after South Africa in terms of gold output. From 1991, the industry started to decay, when instead of ten large territorial enterprises of Russia there emerged over 600 subsoil using companies mining from their first tens of kilos to 1.5-2.0 tons of metal per year. Naturally, such businesses could neither maintain geological exploration nor gold mining in the country.
Strategically located to the western coast of Southern Africa, Angola is the third largest and one of the most mineral potentially endowed and blessed country in sub-Saharan Africa. Angola said 8.6 million carats were mined by the formal sector in 2007. Endiama (Empresa de Diamantes de Angola) is the national diamond company of Angola founded in 1981 and it is the exclusive concessionary of mining rights in the domain of diamonds. Our agency had a possibility to address a couple of questions to the Head of Department of Strategical Planning and Investments, Tiago Dias.15.05.2008
Polished diamond imports to Japan in the first quarter of 2008, at 544,292 carats worth US$ 214,628,000, fell by some 10 percent in terms of both carats and dollars compared to the first quarter of 2007.
Imports from Belgium during the quarter increased by 25 percent in monetary terms, though fell by 5.4 percent in terms of carats compared to imports a year earlier, Tacy reports.
India accounted for a 70.1 percent share of the polished imports to Japan during the quarter in terms of carats, while accounting for a 37.4 percent share in monetary terms.
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