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Ghana Opens Diamond Cutting School |
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
 Ghana opened its first diamond cutting school in an effort to add value to its diamond exports.
According to the Ghana News Agency,
the Natural Diamond Training Institute was established in Accra to
teach Ghanaians basic skilling including: identification of raw
diamonds; cutting; polishing; separation, assortment and grading of
diamonds.
Raj Maheswaran, director of the institute, told GNA that students were also being taught diamond marketing skills and were being equipped to establish their own companies.
The
institute runs a two-month intensive course for senior secondary school
graduates and is open to students from the West Africa Sub Region.
Ghana
exports all its diamonds mined cutting and polishing abroad. The
country mined 972,647.88 carats of diamonds valued at $30.9 million in
2006, according to the latest Kimberley Process statistics.
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