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Ivory Coast
Shareholder row scuppers diamond revival

Transactysglasol's mine, which was supposed to breathe new life into the Ivorian diamond sector, has been shut down after just a few months of operation due to yield problems and amid a dispute between its owners. [...]

Published on 11/01/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Houphouet-Boigny's jeweller to relaunch diamonds by year-end

After a hiatus of more than 45 years, semi-industrial diamond production in Ivory Coast is due to resume at the end of the year with Transactysglasol, a company founded by Christian Abadie, jeweller to the country's first president and now headed by Nicolas de Lesguern, operator of gold mines in Burkina Faso.

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