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Diamond Smuggling Thrives in Zimbabwe Human Rights Watch and others say Zimbabwe's military is illegally selling diamonds to enrich Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party ahead of next year's election.   |
Salon.com
September 27, 2000
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Not forever The death of South African diamond magnate Harry Oppenheimer last month might mark the end of global domination for one of the world's most infamous cartels. |
Outside
September 2002
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This is the situation. This is the confusion. This is Angola. It was once a crown jewel of African beauty -- a place blessed with so many rivers, so much pristine coastline, and such teeming, verdant savannas that it made God jealous. But after 27 years of brutal civil war, Angola is slowly rising out of the graveyard of its sad history. |
Wired
November 24, 2008
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How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic Chuck Fipke sifts through 20-pound bags of dirt in search of Canadian diamonds. |
Wired
September 2003
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The New Diamond Age Armed with new processes to manufacture inexpensive, mass-produced gems, two startups are launching an assault on the De Beers cartel. Next up: the computing industry. |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2006
Sarah Erdreich |
All That Sparkles ... If you're considering buying diamond jewelry and want to make sure you're not inadvertently supporting the conflict diamond trade, there are several steps that consumers can take. |
Outside
January 2007
Anthony Cerretani |
All That Glitters Blood Diamond starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, and Djimon Hounsou brings the controversial diamond industry to light. Hounsou further details the problems of the diamond industry in this interview. |
Fast Company
February 1, 2007
Ian Wylie |
Hope Diamonds In Sierra Leone, a plan for fair-trade gems. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2004
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De Beers in De Champagne De Beers, the125-year-old South African diamond company, settles a decade-old criminal case for $10 million. S'pose they'll try to pay it in diamonds? |
Smithsonian
January 2007
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Diamonds Unearthed In part two of this series, Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection, discusses conflict diamonds, colored diamonds and synthetic gems grown in the lab |
Reason
July 2005
Melinda Ammann |
Cry the Beloved Continent The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives, by Robert Guest posits that Africans are poor because they're poorly governed. |
High on Adventure
December 2009
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Sierra Leone, a Diamond in the Rough A land of coups and diamond smugglers, Sierra Leone had always caught the author's imagination. Now, peace and stability have rendered it once again accessible to visitors. |
Salon.com
February 3, 2001
Laura Rozen |
Dictator downturn It just isn't as easy being a tyrant as it used to be... |
BusinessWeek
June 4, 2007
Carol Matlack |
Are Diamonds Forever? A crackdown in Antwerp threatens the city's historic gem trade. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2004
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The Myth of Socially Responsible Investing Do investors delude themselves when they invest based on morally relative criteria? |
BusinessWeek
June 17, 2010
Amity Shlaes |
How Afghanistan Can Manage Its Mineral Riches The nation is sitting atop $1 trillion in natural resources. Unless it handles them wisely, as Botswana has, it may merely lower growth and foster corruption. |
The Motley Fool
January 17, 2007
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Nanotech Is a Girl's Best Friend The look, quality and price of "cultured" diamonds will eventually win over consumers. When it does, that will be bad news for DeBeers and other diamond companies and good news for Apollo and Gemesis. |
Smithsonian
December 2006
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Diamonds Unearthed In the first installment of a multi-part series, Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection, explains how the rare crystals form. |
Geotimes
November 2006
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Canada's Diamonds Face Old Age Geologists are uncovering the unique origins of Canadian diamonds, and finding not only that they are surprisingly old, but also that they have implications for the timing of Earth's early tectonic processes. |
Smithsonian
January 2007
Cate Lineberry |
Diamonds Unearthed In the final installment of this three-part series, Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection, discusses the fascinating stories behind the Smithsonian's diamond collection. |
Geotimes
October 2006 |
Geomedia Inspecting the Diamond Industry: Q&A with The Heartless Stone Author Tom Zoellner... Book Review: Weighing the World by Edwin Danson... etc. |
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July 2004
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Next Best Friend: Cultured Diamonds Conventional thinking about diamonds may soon be changing. Diamonds -- long prized for their beauty, rarity and long generation times -- are now being created in a matter of hours in laboratories. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2005
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Diamonds' Lost Luster? A scandal involving the biggest gem-certifying lab, the Gemological Institute of America, has the diamond industry fretting over the potential impact. |
Wired
November 24, 2008
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Digging for Diamonds 24/7 Under Frozen Snap Lake Running a diamond mine in the Arctic. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2005
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Can Diamonds Be a Fool's Best Friend? Aber mines and retails diamonds, and that combination is working so far. This is a stock with above-average risk, but the growth opportunity seems legitimate. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Mike G.C. Wilson |
South Africa's Geological Gifts South Africa has a long and complex geological history which goes back some 3.7 billion years, and the country is blessed with an amazing array of mineral resources of various ages. South Africa ranks second only to the United States in variety of mineral commodities in the world. |
The Motley Fool
February 13, 2004
Bob Bobala |
The Cost of Love Valentine's day is a Hallmark holiday made to cause you financial strain while bringing profit to retailers. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Sara Pratt |
Sourcing Ultradeep Diamonds Mineral impurities in a diamond may decrease the gem's value for jewelers, but for geologists they can prove to be priceless: South African diamonds containing garnet have recently provided evidence that very deep diamonds can form from surface materials. |
Salon.com
January 20, 2000
Kai Wright |
Sweets, wrappers and HIV Zimbabweans renegotiate sex in the age of AIDS. |
Mother Jones
Mar/Apr 2002
William Orme |
The Journalist and the Dictator Despite persecution and bomb attacks, Zimbabwe newsman Geoff Nyarota has escaped the heavy hand of a government unfriendly towards journalists... |
