Zimbabwe’s Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) reported selling and exporting 412,086 carats of diamonds valued at $23.45 million between January and May 2010. State-run newspaper The Herald reported on the figures and stated that MMCZ estimated Chiadzwa diamond stock at  about 400,000 carats and worth $1.7 billion.

MMCZ valued all minerals exports during the first five months of 2010 at about $403 million compared with $191.9 million one year earlier. Platinum group metals that were exported totalled $175.76 million.

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