Ghana Opens Diamond Cutting School

Раздел: Новости на английском
06 января 2008 г.

RAPAPORT… Ghana opened its first diamond cutting school in an effort to add value to its diamond exports.

According to the Ghana News Agency , the Natural Diamond Training Institute was established in Accra to teach Ghanaians basic skilling including: identification of raw diamonds; cutting; polishing; separation, assortment and grading of diamonds.

Raj Maheswaran, director of the institute, told GNA that students were also being taught diamond marketing skills and were being equipped to establish their own companies.

The institute runs a two-month intensive course for senior secondary school graduates and is open to students from the West Africa Sub Region.

Ghana exports all its diamonds mined cutting and polishing abroad. The country mined 972,647.88 carats of diamonds valued at $30.9 million in 2006, according to the latest Kimberley Process statistics.

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