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Fast Company
December 2009
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Zimbabwe's Diamond Mines Lead to Rape, Murder, and Thievery Zimbabwe's new found diamond fields could have helped lift the country from its misery. Instead, they've fueled a cycle of government-sanctioned rape, murder, and thievery -- and pushed the place still closer to collapse.   |
Salon.com
September 27, 2000
Susan Emerling |
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
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. |
Salon.com
February 3, 2001
Laura Rozen |
Dictator downturn It just isn't as easy being a tyrant as it used to be... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2005
Rich Duprey |
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
September 2003
Joshua Davis |
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
January 17, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
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
January 2007
Cate Lineberry |
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. |
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... |
Geotimes
November 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
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. |
