The South African government reported that in May, the country’s diamond production was down 19.7 percent compared to the previous year.
As quoted in the statistics release:
Mining production decreased by 0,7% year-on-year in May 2013. The largest negative growth rates were recorded for ‘other’ metallic minerals (-32,3%), diamonds (-19,7%) and gold (-14,6%). The main contributor to the 0,7% decrease was gold (contributing -2,4 percentage points). Manganese ore (contributing 1,5 percentage points) was a significant positive contributor.
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