The blood diamonds of Africa
Diamonds tend to be stones of high value, and they’ve been used regarding numerous things all over the world.They are mostly employed for the making of jewelry like rings, necklaces and earrings among other items.
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(, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 14:59, Reply)
Must be Spam Tuesday.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 15:07,
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Uhm, yes, yes they are
I can't see a funny name, animated cat or something that looks like Goatse on this link though - Its not even an obscured link to horses. I'm confused, what am I missing?
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 15:08,
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Thanks for the description
I never knew what they were, till now.
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Brandy_Bumwinkle, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 15:09,
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I heard diamonds are used in industry too. Is this true?
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Pig Bodine., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 15:12,
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Someone once told me
that diamonds weren't intrinsically very valuable, but clever marketing, coupled with our materialistic culture and 'I-want-one-too' attitudes, had left them grossly overpriced.
Do you care to confirm or deny these scurrilous rumours?
(, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 15:23, Reply)
Maybe it was a bad choice of word.
I was thinking of how few uses it has. Gold is a good conductor, is very malleable and doesn't corrode easily; it makes sense that it's expensive. Diamond could be replaced by glass in a ring and not many people (other than your bank manager) would be any the wiser.
(, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 16:17, Reply)
The price is kept artificially high though limited release.
A guy I worked with in the jewelry trade went to the russian diamond stores years ago.
There were shipping containers full of uncut stones.
A lot of the demand against blood diamonds is them stopping unregulated supply lowering the price.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 16:25,
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