Alrosa sold 1.73 billion dollars in cut and uncut diamonds in January-September 2009, Russia's diamond monopoly said. Alrosa sold 1 billion dollars in diamonds in the third quarter alone. Alrosa has sold 351 million dollars in rough diamonds -255 million dollars of this on the market - since the start of October. Alrosa stopped selling diamonds on the market in December last year. It sold rough diamonds only to the State Precious Metals and Gemstones Repository (Gok-hran) until July, when it returned to the market. Alrosa sold 150 million dollars in uncut diamonds on the market in July, mostly under long-term contracts.
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