YAKUT DIAMOND COMPANY INVESTS…IN ANGOLA.

The Sakha diamond company isinvesting in Angola, Brazil, and Mongolia in an effort to improve its alreadybright profit future, Delovoy mir reported May 11. But its largestshareholder, the Russian State Property Commission, is pressing it todiversify still further. The Sakha diamond concern will now invest inpetrochemicals, hydroelectric power, and the mining of rare earth minerals,the paper said.

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