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Diamonds GossipsBuy Magic Jewelry Diamond thrills - Now it's rent a rock: Luxury jeweller loans diamond necklaces for £200 a nightFor Antwerp Jews, turns out diamonds aren't foreverJobs in the city's Jewish-dominated diamond industry were abundant, lucrative and required little training. Upwards of three-quarters of Antwerp Jews relied ... |
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Would You Buy This $320,000 Fabergé Brooch Online?On Sept. 9 2009 the revived house of Fabergé unveiled its first online jewelry collection in 92 years: 100 pieces ranging in price from $40,000 to $7 million.
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"The chain cannot expect the consumer buying a ring to be an expert jeweler."
VANCOUVER ENTERTAINING: STEVE NASH FOUNDATION FUNDRAISER-- Up a steep driveway flanked by rocks and waterfalls, past the mist-shrouded towering trees, along the red carpet and into the foyer of Kyle and Janelle Washington's waterfront home is a table laden with diamonds.
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dream shoes Singer Alison Krauss arrives wearing a pair of $2 million diamond shoes by Stuart Weitzman for the 76th annual Academy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. Krauss will be performing the best original song nominee ‘The Scarlet Tide’ from the film ‘Cold Mountain.’ — AP/PTI
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Awful Truth About Blood Diamonds Revealed By Author Janine RobertsDelves into the horrors of diamond mining. Extremely timely book to coincide with the release of the Leonardo DiCaprio film Blood Diamond.

ANTWERP
jan 18 “The script of Blood Diamond is well written and will have the tension
in many cinemas running very high. Action and entertainment are combined here
with a particularly high level of fantasy. But the reality is quite different.
This is why we have invited DiCaprio to the world diamond centre. Here in Antwerp
he will be able to discover the real diamond world and see for himself how
diamonds are traded today, how transparency has been the key word in the
organisation and structure of the sector for several years now. "
read Antwerp invites DiCaprio
In a gesture of love - Dean McDermott has proposed for the second time to wife Spelling Tori engagement ring. “We sat on a bench overlooking the lake and I gave Tori her last Christmas present.”
DiCaprio Film May Hurt
Diamond Sales Over Holidays, Author Says
``Blood Diamond,'' the new Leonardo DiCaprio movie about
gems-for-weapons dealing in war-torn Sierra Leone during the 1990s, may hurt
Christmas sales of diamonds, according to an author who has written a book about
the issue.
What a fuss a number can make -- one little number. And here it is: Fewer than 1 percent of diamonds on the market today are "conflict diamonds."
drugs diamonds Director Edward Zwick’s movie Blood Diamond has raised a host of questions about Western complicity in the “conflict diamond” trade. To what extent has American demand for diamonds been a driving force behind brutal civil strife in Africa? Should Americans feel guilty about buying diamonds?
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Letter About Diamonds In Africa Moving
from charity to African empowerment: Diamonds provide sustainable economic
development in Botswana and South Africa
It takes a child to raise a continent
When you look into the face of a young child in Africa, you should be able to
see the future of a better world. Some may affirm it takes a village to raise a
child. Yet for many reasons today in Africa, it takes a child with a good
education, nutrition, health care and development opportunities to raise a
village, a nation and a continent out of poverty and disease.
Nicole
Richie difficult Diamonds time
'Blood Diamond' shows how industry leaders turned a blind eye to the
atrocities funded by their policies. The sordid
diamonds history behind Africa's conflict
New movie puts conflict carat diamonds stick in the spotlight .A woman tries on a diamond ring at the Clay Pot jewelry store in New York. This holiday season some diamond retailers say they are seeing heightened consumer concern about conflict diamonds, the gems mined in war zones that are sold to fund armed conflict. read The carat and the stick
World Diamond Council :
Development, implementation and oversight of a tracking system for the export
and import of rough diamonds to prevent the exploitation of diamonds for illicit
purposes such as war and inhumane acts.
The
Hope Diamond in National Museum of Natural History at Smithsonian InstitutionGermanium diamonds Not
since
the use of germanium in the first transistor radios and the discovery of its
crucial role in semiconductor research more than 50 years ago has the study of
this element garnered so much attention.
The usual form of germanium has the same structure as a diamond, and this new
form has a beautiful and unique “cage” structure.
Diamonds, Jewelry,
the economy and gold
IDEX reported diamond prices are softening...Diamonds are the ultimate luxury
item and during times of prosperity (usually when stock prices are rising),
demand for diamonds is strong. Conversely, when times are tough, less people buy
expensive diamonds...
AGTA stolen. Pres. Robbed of Jewelry Worth Millions . The American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) revealed details of the million dollar robbery which resulted in the sudden three month leave of absence of AGTA president, Richard Krementz, beginning July 17, 2006.
MORE than 220 objects worth an estimated $100 million (£50 million) have been
stolen from the Hermitage Museum
in St Petersburg.
Vol Hermitage (en français) 5 millions de dollars de joaillerie ont disparu du Musée de l'Ermitage
Diamond girl Nights Go On Licensing Frenzy
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west
diamonds New DiCaprio Film Rattles west Diamond Industry
The Blood Diamond A farmer, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.
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DRC: Diamonds, children and witchcraft MBUJI MAYI, 17 Jul 2006 (IRIN) - Diamonds, the top export in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), are mostly extracted from the middle of the country at Kasai Oriental Province. Yet people there are among the poorest in the DRC and diamonds seem to be tearing apart their society. Children do much of the work and many are killed in accidents or in fighting over diamonds. Distrust is feeding superstition and causing a strange and terrible phenomenon: thousands of children are being accused of witchcraft. read diamond children Full report |
Kimberley Process : Speech: Oppenheimer World Diamond Congress Gala ...The WDC has, since its inception in 2000, been the public face of the diamond industry in the exhaustive negotiations with the United Nations, national governments and civil society in the creation of the Kimberley Process. This Process, mandated by the United Nations General Assembly and endorsed by the Security Council, is an international Agreement (between some 70 nations, NGOs representing over 100 advocacy groups and the WDC on behalf of us all) which, through its Certification Scheme, ensures that all rough diamond trading between participant countries is properly recorded, cross-checked and verifiable....
blood diamonds Some
gems free of war, injustice
...By 2003, more than 50 nations had agreed to the so-called Kimberley
Process, a system of import-export inspection and certification of conflict-free
diamonds. The U.S. government later turned those rules into law....
Coloured
diamonds :
America's Gemisis poses a diamond threat to De Beers.
Everyone is walking very carefully at present, but this Wednesday’s
presentation in Johannesburg underscored the major changes that technology poses
to the miners who dig diamonds out of the earth.
Lost diamonds
Financial investigators are trying to locate a stash of 100 diamonds bought in
Hong Kong using money linked to a high-profile hedge-fund scandal in Canada.
The tangled web leading to the diamonds involves a Hong Kong diamond merchant, a
Chinese woman with a Hong Kong identity card who made the purchase, and a
Canadian hedge fund co-founder hiding in Israel.
Black diamond at Academy
Award : The $2 million Black Orlov Diamond owned
by Johnstown businessman J. Dennis Petimezas, has been linked to the deaths of
three previous owners who apparently killed themselves.
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