RAPAPORT. Alrosa will auction a 242.31-carat diamond in Dubai later this month, one of the largest gem-quality rough stones the Russian miner has unearthed in the past decade, it said Friday. The opening price will be in excess of $2 million.The March 22 sale will mark Alrosa’s 100th.
we re going to step out of the way. you see the edge of the cordon from here. there s a lot of police cars still there, 70 to 80 yards from london bridge where the original incident took place. this is the main sort of the entry point for the police vehicles into that area and we ve been seeing a lot of activity down that road, a lot of the police officers, as i say, with machine guns sweeping through the streets. earlier when we were here this was the main place where people were actually running out of the area. you could see people who were being brought by the police, told to run as fast as they could out of the area, some with their hands over their heads. a lot of really fear among many of those folks and we have also heard from eyewitnesses that we ve spoken to here some of them at some of those restaurants near borough markets how all of a sudden people told them there was a stabbing and to run as fast as possible. this is also, john, the second time since i ve been here toni