Star Diamond acquires Buffalo Hills project in Alberta
Located approximately 400 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, the Buffalo Hills project includes 21 mineral leases covering 4,800 hectares.
Mirny, June 6, 2016 – PJSC ALROSA, the world leader in diamond mining, will send over 2.5 thousand children of the Company’s employees on vacation to Russia’s health resorts during the summer holidays.
The first charter flight Mirny-Gelendzhik has already brought the first group of children from Yakutia to the Black Sea coast of the Krasnodar territory. Two hundred children will spend 21 days in Niva, a sanatorium recreation camp for children. The health resort meets the children for the second year in a row.
“The Company’s experts from the social department and trade union carried out an extensive research to choose a children’s camp. First and foremost, we were focused on security, comfortable accommodation and balanced meals for children,” says Tatiana Volk, lead specialist of ALROSA’s social and regional development section.
Children’s recreation expenses exceed RUB 200 million every year. The Company pays for air transportation and accompanying of the children to the holiday resort. More than two thousand children of ALROSA’s employees will spend their summer holidays in the children’s holiday camps in Mirny district.
ABOUT ALROSA
ALROSA is the world’s largest producer of rough diamonds in carats. ALROSA is engaged in exploration, mining and sales of diamonds. The Company’s operations are located in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Arkhangelsk Region of Russia. In 2015, the Company produced 38.3 million carats of rough diamonds; 2014 revenue was RUB 224.5 billion.
