By using ultra-thin slices of diamonds, researchers have found the first direct evidence for the formation of diamonds by a process known as redox freezing. In this process, carbonate melts crystallize to form diamond.
Ultra-thin slices of diamonds reveal geological processes Read More »
The mining and selling of “blood diamonds” has been targeted by campaigners for decades and subject to many UN Resolutions addressing conflict diamonds mentioned in my previous article “Beyond Bloodstained Gems: New Science and Standards”. Even after the diamond cartel’s response, the Kimberly Certification of gems that are “conflict-free”, many stones escape into global trade.
Time To Phase Out Cruel, Polluting Gem Mining Worldwide Read More »
Hazel Henderson makes the connection between slave labor and diamond mining! Article Slave labour is still part of some global value chains. Chocolate is an example. It can be shown and measured that in such a case but also in other cases increases in trade can actually lower production and income for countries lower in
Slave free chocolate, global value chains and delicious ‘Chocolonely’ Read More »
OTTAWA — De Beers, the company whose name has been synonymous with the diamond trade since its founding in South Africa by Cecil Rhodes in the 1880s, is opening the world’s largest new diamond mine in a decade —in Canada’s Far North. The $1 billion Gahcho Kué mine becomes Canada’s fifth operating diamond mine, reflecting
One of the world’s biggest diamond mines opens — in remote Canada Read More »
Originally posted Nov. 12, 2015 Leonardo Dicaprio, along with 10 Silicon Valley billionaires, has just upped the ante for Lab-grown Diamonds in the $100 Bn Diamond Industry by proudly investing in a California based startup, Diamond Foundry. Diamond Foundry was founded (in 2012) with the goal of reinventing the diamond industry from “mine to finger”
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Originally posted on the Better Diamond Initiative Lab-Created Diamonds: An Emerging Movement to Protect People and Places In 2015, 135 million carats of diamonds were mined. In that same time period, children as young as 11 years old worked alongside adults (Amnesty International). In any given year, some mining operations create enough salty water to
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News: London-based The Economist is now covering the shift from mining diamonds now losing value to the growing market of science-created diamonds, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s Diamond Foundry! Read on. The diamond industry: In the rough Diamonds: Shine on
Diamond Industry: In the rough Read More »
When David Cameron described Afghanistan to the Queen as “fantastically corrupt” over drinks at Buckingham Palace in April it was widely regarded as a gaffe. But the British prime minister was not wrong. Afghanistan ranks a woeful 166th out of 168 countries in Transparency International’s latest assessment of graft and crooked dealing around the world.
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By Hazel Henderson © 2015 The best way to ensure that your diamond is not bloodstained from conflicts is to buy an identical gem created by human science. These can be indistinguishable from diamonds mined from the Earth and avoid polluting the planet and exploiting miners, hundreds of whom die every year. The growing science-created
BEYOND BLOODSTAINED GEMS: NEW SCIENCE AND STANDARDS Read More »
We bring you the round-up of latest news, events, trends and developments in the diamond and jewelry industry Lab-grown Diamonds 1. MiaDonna Recognised as one of 100 fastest growing private companies in Oregon MiaDonna, a major retailer in the Lab-grown diamond industry was recently awarded Portland Journal’s 100 Fastest – Growing Private Companies in Oregon.
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