environmental analysis of diamond mining industry
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This report will analyse the external environment focusing on only the mining segment of diamond industry. The External analysis is to identify determinants on underlying structure and attractiveness of the industry. It is used Pestle and Michael Porter’s Five Forces Framework to give insights of competition level in the Diamond Mining Industry.TRANSCRIPT
DIAMOND MINING INDUSTRY
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DIAMOND MINING INDUSTRY – An external analysis
TABLE OF CONTENTSI. INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................2
II. EXTERNAL ANALYSIS...................................................................................................3
i. PESTLE ANALYSIS......................................................................................................3
a. Political and Legal.......................................................................................................3
b. Economic.....................................................................................................................6
c. Technological............................................................................................................10
d. Environmental...........................................................................................................10
ii. FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS.........................................................................................11
a. Potential Entrants.......................................................................................................11
b. The power of suppliers..............................................................................................12
c. The power of buyers..................................................................................................14
d. The threat of substitutes.............................................................................................14
e. Competitive rivalry....................................................................................................16
III. CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................17
IV. REFERENCES..............................................................................................................19
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I. INTRODUCTION
Diamond is one of valuable and beautiful items, which is highly desirable by people all over
the world. Diamonds displayed and sold widely at substantial high price. Diamond mining
industry is serving huge demand for diamonds and has experienced gradually changed over
the time. It is questionable that whether diamond mining industry is actually profitable and
sexy industry for investing or entering nowadays. This report attempts to apply the external
analysis for the diamond mining industry to answer this query.
Firstly, the report introduces background of the world’s diamond. It is believed that diamond
mining industry was started early in 8000 years ago. In 1888, De Beers was established by
Cecil Rhodes and expanded their business quickly to grasped 90% of the market share in the
early of 1900’s. De Beers has significantly contributed to the development of diamonds
industry through market campaign of “a diamond is forever” which encouraged the dramatic
increase in sales of diamonds all over the world. The development of the industry has led to
the appearance of several other companies in the market like ALROSA, Rio Tinto, BHP
Billiton, Petra Diamonds, etc. These companies play dominant role in the market and owns
20 major mines all over the world (Linde et al. 2011).
Figure 1: Distribution of major diamond mines all over the world(Source: Linde et al. 2011)
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Diamonds nowadays are used as 50% for jewellery (comprises 90% of total value and the rest
for industrial purpose (Linde et al. 2011). The supply chain of diamond industry is
summarized from exploring mines, producing and selling rough diamonds, cutting and
polishing rough diamonds to polished diamonds, manufacturing diamond jewellery and
selling to retailers/ultimate consumers.
This report will analyse the external environment focusing on only the mining segment of
diamond industry (since called diamond mining industry).
II. EXTERNAL ANALYSIS
External analysis is important to identify determinants on underlying structure and
attractiveness of the industry. All the environmental and competitive forces might impact on
all the organisations within the industry. In order to elaborately evaluate the Diamond
industry’s macro-environment, the PESTLE framework is applied to recognise the key
drivers as well as uncertainty level of these factors impacting the organisations’ strategies
within this. Moreover, implications of competitive factors are also analysed using Michael
Porter’s Five Forces Framework to give insights of competition level in the industry (Gerry et
al. 2008, pp. 55 -67).
i. PESTLE ANALYSIS
a. Political and Legal
The role of government and international associations plays an important role in Diamond
industry. As diamonds are high value natural resources, the government and law enforcement
agencies have concerned on the criminal and tax issues related to the industry. These legal
agencies are trying to strengthening the laws and rules to take control over the diamond
supply chain activities from mining, cutting and polishing manufacturing as well as diamond
jewellery manufacturing.
In 2002, United Nations established the Kimberly Process to restrict “Conflict Diamonds”
(refers to rebel groups finance their operations through taking control of diamond mines and
selling process, happening mostly in central and west of Africa). Consequently, exporting
authorities in the industry must meet the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPCS)
requirements for getting certification for all rough diamonds. Therefore, mining activities and
processes of organisations are under supervision of a chairperson to guarantee rules of
Kimberly Process are adhered (World Diamond Council nd). This rules and supervision
significantly influenced on the change in current mining process of mining organizations as
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well as slightly increase on barrier to entry for new entrants. However, the KPCS also
provided protections for authentic mining organisations from being illegally controlled by
rebel groups.
The main mines of diamonds are mostly located in Africa where the politics are unstable
which is the main identified risk for diamond mining industry. Diamond exploring and
production are long-term process thus political volatility of host countries in Africa has
dramatically impacted on the mining organisations. However, over last 30 years diamond
mining has expended to Russia, Australia and Canada where the politics are more stable for
mining industry. These new exploring destinations for diamonds have opened new less risky
investment opportunities for diamond mining industry. There is however an essential point
that Russian state-owned entity ALROSA is the single player of diamond mining in Russia
(Linde et al. 2011). It probably adds to higher barrier to entry diamond mining industry in
Russia.
Figure 2: Volume of Diamond production by countries from 1870 to 2010(Source: Linde et al. 2011)
In the past ten years, Canada has developed the diamond mining industry which comprises
high proportion of diamond production in both volume and value.
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Figure 3: Diamond Production in volume and value by countries in 2010(Source: Linde et al. 2011)
Since diamond mining industry is one of beneficial industry for Canada economy, Canadian
government has distressed on how to tightening the regulations as well as encouraging the
exploration activities for this industry. In 2003, Canadian Mines Minister and provincial and
territorial representatives organised a Diamond Roundtable to raise issues related to the
development of Canada’s diamond industry. The conference distressed on strengthening the
law enforcement for diamond industry which strictly forced all companies in this industry
following a harshly trading and exploring process. However, the conference also suggested
the simplify and clarify regulatory process for attracting more trained and skilled labor force
through immigration (Natural Resources Canada 2003). Another favourable suggestion for
diamond companies is keeping the Exploration Investment Tax Credit (ITCE) of 15%
(Natural Resources Canada 2005). These suggestions when are applied are considered to
enhance the incentives for new junior mining companies to finance their operations through
tax deduction for their investors in flow-through shares.
Various jurisdictions in different countries established different regulations to protect the
local trade, enhance security as well as control the diamond marketing activities. Therefore,
exploring and producing companies has extremely concerned on following different
requirements of every country.
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Figure 4: Diamond Legislation in various diamond jurisdictions(Source: Diamond Consultants Canada 2008)
In conclusion, the political element is one of key drivers of diamond mining industry as it
directly influence practises process of mining activities, exploration rights as well as profit
and loss of companies within the industry. Moreover, diamond is valuable but limited natural
resources, the government is tightening regulation enforcement on activities of exploring
companies in other to limit the criminal and environmental issues related to. High volatility
of regulations in Africa has created more barrier and difficulty for companies in the industry.
However, as one of beneficial industry strongly contributes for national economy of country
diamonds are found (eg. Diamond industry contributes approximately 33% of Botswana’s
GDP (Diamond Consultants Canada 2008)), there is also encouragement from government
for junior diamond exploring companies to enter the market, especially in Canada through tax
incentives. With these reasons, political and legal environment for diamond mining industry
are suggested to be continuously gradually changing in the future.
b. Economic
Economic factor which drives demand and supply for diamond industry might significantly
influence on the industry structure, competition and attractiveness.
It is reported that the production segment of diamond industry achieved the highest operating
profit margin of 22-26% where there are only several big players in this segment (Linde et al.
2008). Diamond mining industry is also considered to have highest return ratio compared to
other mining industry.
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Figure 5: Production margin over value chain in 2010(Source: Linde et al. 2011)
Most of demands for diamonds are coming from demand for diamond jewellery thus
diamond jewellery demand significantly drives the production of diamond mining. There is
statistical evidence that the growth rate for diamond jewellery is frequently high over the time
and dramatically high in China and India market. It is forecasted the promising opportunity
for diamond mining industry.
Figure 6: Demand and Growth rate for diamond jewellery in major markets 2000 - 2007(Source: Linde et al. 2011)
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Diamonds are classified to be luxury products rather than commodity like other products
from mining production. Having characteristics of luxury products, diamond demand is
noticeably impacted by the change in allocation of middle class people. Consequently, high
growing market for diamonds has recently been China and India where experienced quick
urbanization and increase of middle class. It is also forecasted that together with the fast
growing of Chinese and Indian economy, the proportion of middle class is increasing
gradually (Linde et al. 2008). Therefore, the demand for diamond in China and India is
predicted to be attractive enough for development of diamond industry in the future.
Like other luxury products, diamond consumption was heavily affected by the 2008 recession
with reduction of 11% (Linde et al. 2008). Main market for diamonds is United States where
the recession in 2008 heavily affected its general market, thus diamond demand in this
market in internationally was noticeable down.
Figure 7: Share of overall consumption of diamonds from 2000 to 2010(Source: Linde et al. 2011)
Due to low demand from retail and jewellery segment, exploring and producing segment did
follow the trend of decreasing spending on investment. However, the exploring segment was
more severe impacted with the decrease of investment spend by 64% (Linde et al. 2008).
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Figure 8: The world diamond exploration spend from 2001 to 2010(Source: Linde et al. 2011)
The insight reason for the decrease in demand for diamond consumptions in the market can
be explained to be the surplus of diamond supply in the market. However, it is also predicted
that the future demand for diamond will gradually increase in the future taking out all other
unpredictable elements while the supply for diamond is not having recognized change over
the time. Consequently, there is still potential market available for new entrants in the
diamond mining industry.
Figure 9: Long-term rough diamond supply and demand outlook from 2006 to 2018(Source: Nkiruka 2010)
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In conclusion, economic element has huge impact on profit and loss in mining as well as the
retailing structure of diamond industry. Unstable economic condition recently has increased
both upward and downward risks in diamond mining industry. However, trend of market
shifting from US to Asia, where the economies are highly growing and less likely to be
affected by recession, is promised to a higher upward tendency of growing for diamond
mining industry.
c. Technological
Technology plays an important role in production and safety level for mining industry in
general and diamond mining industry in specific. Moreover, any particular company has an
outstanding mining technology over other competitors might enhance its competitive ability
through higher volume of production and win license for hard to explore but high value
mines.
Exploring and mining technology
Owning high technology in term of modern and complex equipments and techniques for
mining from early stage of the industry has consolidated the position of top four companies
(De Beers, ALROSA, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton) in diamond mining industry. Technology
capability has helped these giants to take control most of new exploring places as well as
ability to evaluate the quality and value of new mines.
Internet revolution
Since the debut of internet has encouraged ecommerce, it not only has impacted on the
change diamond jewellery retailers’ structure (appearance of online selling players like Blue
Nile) but also indirectly influence on power of price makers of mining companies (Nkiruka
2010). In another word, online sales have enhanced the transparency of diamonds price in the
market leading to more bargaining power of consumers’ users.
In conclusion, technological implement plays an important role in deciding competitive
advantage and capability of every player in diamond mining industry. In overall, the stability
of technological factor is evaluated to be moderate.
d. Environmental
Although diamond mining industry is extracting natural resources from the earth and might
associated with issues of energy use and emissions, waste of water and impact on
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biodiversity, it is evaluated to not as unfriendly to environment as other mining industries due
to not using hazardous materials. However, due to high awareness of environmental pollution
and its impact on global nature, most of mining companies has attempted to minimize their
environmental influences through committing to the ISO 14001 standard of environmental
management (World Diamond Council nd). Therefore, any company in mining industry has
to consider a capital investment for environmental management practises.
ii. FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS
a. Potential Entrants
The diamond mining market has changed from monopoly market into more oligopoly market.
The clear evidence is that De Beers has lost their market comprise from 90% to 40% in 2007
and the appearance of other giant mining entities like ALROSA, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton
(Nkiruka 2010).
There are also restrictions preventing junior players to enter the market. There are still few
diamond mining companies which comprises large amount of diamonds in both volume and
value. These few organisations lead the market with their long experience in exploring and
producing diamonds and owned most of biggest mines all over the world. These giant entities
have ability to take control of most of exploring areas with their competitive ability of high
technology and expertise resources. Moreover, there are also several reasons that prevent new
comers to diamond mining industry listed below.
High capital investment
Diamond mining industry is classified to be high capital intensive investment where the
exploring activities require high investment on mining equipments and depend on the
qualified labor forces. Although requiring high capital for exploring, there is no guarantee the
payback for time consuming and complexity process of exploring a diamond site. The
probability that finding a deposit containing diamonds and can develop into a diamond mine
is 1 to 3 % although the high value of every mine developed (Linde et al. 2011).
The typical production cost for a diamond mining and producing company are described
below
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Figure 10: Annual production costs of diamond mining operations(Source: Linde et al. 2011)
. Consequently, there is a high barrier of scale and experience prevents new junior players to
enter the diamond mining industry.
Political and regulatory enforcement
Legislation role in diamond mining industry restraints on entry of new companies from
various and complex regulations as KPCS, marketing strategy approval, license, local sales of
rough diamonds rules and penalties, etc. as well as strict regulatory enforcement process
(Diamond Consultants Canada 2008).
However, diamond mining industry is one of beneficial contribution to economy of country
where it is explored, thus governments recently has encouraged the investment of companies
through several tax incentives scheme like ITCE of 15% in Canada (Natural Resources
Canada 2005). This incentive has increased the threat of entry through lower financial risk.
b. The power of suppliers
Equipments suppliers
Since diamond mining industry has developed from Africa to Russia, Australia and Canada,
there are more and more equipment suppliers available all over the world. With the
fragmented market for equipment suppliers, diamond mining companies had more bargaining
power over their suppliers. However, every equipment invested require high capital, thus
diamond mining companies are impacted by high switching cost for changing equipment
suppliers. Concluded from these reasons, power of equipment suppliers in diamond mining
industry is analysed to be medium.
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Finance suppliers
Diamond mining industry is considered to be capital intensive industry which requires high
working capital to keep operation going on. Therefore, Diamonds Banks were established to
serves players in this industry. There are a few banks who finances for large and mid-sizes
companies like ABN AMRO and ADB (Linde et al. 2011). However diamond banking
industry in India is classified to be fragmented with large number of banks serving the
industry. However, these banks in India mostly serve the cutting and polishing companies.
Figure 11: Diamond banks market share in 2009(Source: Linde et al. 2011)
In conclusion, the power of finance suppliers for diamond industry is evaluated to be
relatively high with two main banks comprising large market share. Another reason that
makes power of finance suppliers to be high is the high switching cost. Borrowing from
banks is considered to be a complicated and taking time process, thus switching from one
bank to another one is costing. However, the ease level of borrowing is determinated by the
credit of mining companies. Therefore, it can be said that big and experienced diamond
mining companies suffer low to medium power of finance suppliers while the small and
junior mining companies might evaluate the power of their finance suppliers to be high.
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c. The power of buyers
Buyers of diamond mining companies are classified to be direct buyers who are the retailers
and jewellery manufacturers. Due to different buying behaviour, demand level and scale of
business, they have different level of power over the mining companies.
Retailers and jewellery manufacturers are main and direct buyers of diamond mining
companies. These buyers access to the diamonds offered by mining companies through
sightholders, long-term contracts or auctions (Linde et al. 2011). It is obviously that power of
buyers through long-term contract and auctions is quite low. It can be explained that buyers
compete to each other to buy the big size valuable diamonds through auctions. In addition,
price, quantity and quality of diamonds sold by long-term contracts are set in advance by
diamond mining companies basing on the financial capability, business practises and
reputations of buyers. In contrast, buyers using sightholder method tend to have medium
buying power due to there are fewer than 100 sightholder buying more than 70% amount of
rough diamonds in the world (Linde et al. 2011).
d. The threat of substitutes
Main direct buyers of diamond mining companies are retailers/jewellery manufacturers
whose demands for diamonds are driven by the users by the end of diamond supply chain.
The users by the end of supply chain are classified as industrial consumers and gem-quality
consumers.
Synthetic diamonds
Synthetic diamonds technology has been improved over the time making nearly same quality
to the natural diamonds but they are set at price of around 40% less than natural diamonds.
Synthetic diamonds may affect on perspectives of consumers about diamonds image as well
as partly affect on demand for natural diamonds. This threat is significantly recognized as
95% of diamonds used in industrial consumption is synthetic diamonds (McAdams & Reavis
2008). The industrial users consider synthetic diamonds are suitable substitutes for them due
to the same hardness quality but lower price of synthetic diamonds. However, only very small
percent of gem-quality consumers those are in middle class considers buying synthetic
diamonds as substitutions due to unique value of natural diamonds. It can be concluded that
the threat of substitutes from synthetic diamonds is low for gem-quality consumption but
high for industrial consumption.
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Figure 12: consumption of natural and synthetic diamonds for industrial and jewellery demand
(Source: Linde et al. 2011)Recognized the threat of synthetic diamonds as substitute to diamond mining industry, De
Beers has spent huge investment on developing a technology to distinguish between natural
and synthetic diamonds and advertising to educating consumers. Since 2007, GIA has
accepted to grade the synthetic diamonds for transparency. In addition, Israel Diamond
Exchange (IDE) also banned the trade of synthetic diamonds in 2004 (Linde et al. 2011).
These activities responding have slightly decreased the threat of substitutes by synthetic
diamonds in gem-quality market but actually did not affect on industrial consumption.
Gold
Gold is also considered to be one of substitutes in gem-quality consumption market due to
several reasons summarized on figure 13.
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Figure 13: Value considering factors for Gold and Diamonds(Source: Linde et al. 2011)
Gold is evaluated with several outstanding value and characteristics like more easy to sell
back to secondary market, sufficient using as currency, homogeneous quality, etc (Linde et
al. 2011). It can be said that gold is strong substitutes for diamonds in term of keeping it as
treasury.
However, due to unique value, using purpose and symbol of diamonds for love, marriage,
engagement as well as the beautiful of diamond itself which gold cannot totally replace.
Consequently, gold is considered to be medium substitutes for diamonds in term of emotional
symbol of ownership.
e. Competitive rivalry
All four elements of entry level, power of buyers and suppliers and threat of substitutes help
generating a picture of competitive rivalry of diamond mining industry. The competition
level can be classified to be medium from previous analysis. However, high barriers of entry
in term of strict regulations and intensive capital have increased the competition level to a bit
higher than medium. Moreover, diamond mining industry now has few companies of De
Beers, ALROSA, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton and Petra Diamonds who provides around 60%
of the world diamonds, which indicates a danger of intense competition in the market (Linde
et al. 2011). High growth rate and limited production of diamonds create a low price
competition and fair opportunity for all organisations growing in the market. In addition,
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differentiation element is determined by the quality of diamonds in particular mine which is
impacted by the scale and technological capability of mining companies to gain licensing for
quality mines’ production. Consequently, it is finally concluded that competitive rivalry of
diamond mining industry is at medium to high level.
III. CONCLUSION
Diamond mining industry is considered to be very profitable industry with average profit
margin at 22-26% and growing at high rate of 5%, 17% and 13% in main markets
(respectively in United States, China and India) (Linde et al. 2011). This basic information
indicates a favorable attraction for the diamond mining industry. However in order having
depth overlook and clear insights of the industry, PESTLE and Five Forces analysis
framework are applied to evaluate the diamond mining industry.
Firstly, PESTLE analysis concluded a gradually volatility environment in term of politic,
legislation and economy. Government and diamond associations are trying to strengthening
and strictly governing the diamond mining process and practises through more rules and
legislation enforcement. Different countries where diamond mines located has enforced and
issued different regulations to protect their local market as well as encourage potential
entrants for growing and developing their high contributed industry. Unstable economic
condition has influenced on the stability level of demand for diamonds in the market.
However, predicted change of economy has evaluated to be favourable by investors in the
industry. Main markets for diamonds are shifting more to Asia (mainly in China and India)
where the economies are steadily growing leading to higher demand for diamonds in the
future. In addition, technological element is indicated to be not really volatile but is key
driver for shaping power in the industry. Last but not least, environmental management
practises does not have significant ties to commit by companies in the industry but are clearly
aware by players and associations in the industry. Therefore to committing to environmental
management practises like ISO 14001 should be considered (World Diamond Council nd).
Although investment for this standard might be an intensive capital but definitely create
competitive advantage and social responsibility reputation for companies in this industry.
Secondly, Five Forces Analysis has indicated a medium to high competition environment of
diamond mining industry. With few numbers of competitors with large scale of business and
high technological capability, diamond mining industry is recommended to have intensive
competition. Together with high continuous capital requirement for keep business going on
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as well as complex and strict regulations, there are high barriers to entry the diamond mining
industry. However, medium power of suppliers in term of finance and equipment does give
favourable environment for new entrants. Moreover, low to medium power of buyers was
classified through different ways of selling diamonds to retailers/jewellery manufacturers has
created moderate influence of diamond mining companies in the market. Threat of substitutes
is also another consideration for the attractiveness of the industry. Synthetic diamonds are
one of high threat in term of industrial consumption but do not really change the demand for
gem-quality consumption. Gold is another strong substitute for gem-quality consumption but
still does not totally take replacement over diamonds in term of emotional symbol.
Consequently, diamond mining industry with high growth rate which indicates an enough
market for more entrants to join the market and grow within it. The industry can be said to be
favourable and attractive enough for investors to put money in current companies in the
market, especially the big giants dominating the market. However, there are sophisticated
high barriers to entry like regulations, technological capability, scale of business, experience
and intensive capital investment requirements might prevent new entrants to this “twinkling
industry”.
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