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Dubai Diamond Auction Fetches $7.2 Million

February 02, 11 by IDEX Online Staff Reporter
 

(IDEX Online News)
- The Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE) hosted an auction of polished diamonds, selling 34,000 carats for a total of $7.2 million. Buyers were offered a range of goods of various sizes and qualities with the largest diamond being a 21-carat diamond.

 

More than 130 people, representing 60 diamond companies attended the three-day auction that took place January 18-20. Included amongst these were diamond dealers, suppliers and manufacturers from India, Belgium, Hong Kong, Japan and Thailand, among others.

 

Diasqua DMCC organized the auction, a diamond trading company, in what is described as the first polished diamond auction of its type in the Middle East.
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