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(Blood) Diamonds Are Forever
The Jewels In September's Elle Come At An Extremely High Price


06/26/09
Add me to the moissanite train. I was a jeweler for years, working almost exclusively with moissanite, and would recommend it whole-heartedly even now that I don't have a dog in the fight. I've worked with stones up to an 8ct equivalent (about a 13mm stone), and can tell you that the color in the larger stones is NOT an issue. The stuff is awesome.
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(More proof, also, that I will watch anything Discover or TLC wraps into a reality show.)
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Conflict diamonds are nothing to mess around with, and I have been well aware of this since high school, when I read this article [www.nytimes.com]
After reading that, I decided to never wear a mined diamond until there was an absolute guarantee that it was conflict free, and everything I've read since has just cemented that vow.
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My relationship with this coworker is acrimonious.
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
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I'm just jealous because I'm really not iced out at all. When I throw up my arm, no one thinks it's started snowing.
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Luckily, I also wait until after I've said congratulations and heard engagement stories. :)
@morninggloria: I like to throw up my hands and have people think that it's hailing. Which is why I wear pearls.
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@dianersb was bit by a zombie: I need to take a page out of your book and be more vocal about my views on this to my newer friends.
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I should have clarified that I wouldn't ask this of casual friends or of those whom wouldn't necessarily know my viewpoints on this particular subject.
I'm also not going "hey congratulations, is the ring conflict free". It's more of an if it conflict diamonds comes up, I'll ask sort of thing.
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I'm so anti-diamond I wouldn't even wear a faux or vintage one. This is probably stupid, but I'd be afraid of anyone thinking it's real or not vintage and taking that as my approval of diamonds in general.
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PS HI!!! I haven't seen you around in a while.
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I didn't know anything about blood diamonds until reading about it on the internet, maybe a couple years ago. I wish I'd learned earlier, because it would've prevented me from getting diamonds when I was younger and stupider (I still have them but don't wear them -- what the hell do you do with that stuff?).
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Liberia's ability to sell its main natural resource- diamonds - is helping it fund its much needed development.
Why are people not concerned with coltan? What hypocrisy.
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as for the video, well, it was a nod to the witty Ms Dynamite
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"Some in the industry have questioned whether Zimbabwe's gems match the definition of conflict diamonds as they are helping to fund a government, not a rebel army, but Mr Smillie rejected this: "They are blood diamonds, they have blood all over them."