“How a gem expert wound up with a fake, and what you can learn from her experience.”
By Susan M Neider, Barron’s Penta, May 21, 2011.
The ‘Blood Diamond’ Resurfaces
By MICHAEL ALLEN from Wall Street Journal
CAFUNFO, Angola—On paper, Angola is a poster child for the global effort to keep “blood diamonds” out of the world’s jewelry stores.
International pressure helped end a vicious civil war a decade ago by strangling the ability of rebels to trade diamonds for weapons. Angola is now a leading member of the so-called Kimberley Process, an industry-wide effort to prevent commerce in rough diamonds by insurgent groups. Today, Angola is the world’s fifth-largest diamond producer by value, and its gems are coveted for their size and purity.
But a visit to Angola’s diamond heartland reveals that plenty of blood still spills over those precious stones. Here in the sprawling jungle of northeast Angola, a violent economy prevails in which thousands of peasant miners eke out a living searching for diamonds with shovels and sieves. Because they lack government permits, miners and their families say they are routinely beaten and shaken down for bribes by soldiers and private security guards—and, in extreme cases, killed.
The Kimberly Process has never been more than a country of origin repackaging and rubber stamp. –Fred Cuellar
This sort of violence, which has made headlines in nearby Zimbabwe, is threatening to tear the Kimberley Process apart. Diamond retailers can ill afford more bad publicity about tainted stones. But many of Africa’s diamond-producing nations are wary about any effort to beef up the industry’s policing of human rights.
Around Angola’s mines, tales of confrontation abound. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Linda Moisés da Rosa, 55 years old, denounced the killings of her two sons, both diamond miners. In September, she said, Angolan soldiers descended on a large mine near here to chase away diggers. When some refused to leave, she said, the soldiers caved in the mine, burying alive around 45 men, including her son Pereira Eduardo Antonio, 21. “These kids were stubborn,” she said, adding that the soldiers said that the killings “should serve as a lesson to anyone who wants to come dig here again.”
In February, she said, her oldest son, 33-year-old Tito Eduardo, the family’s sole breadwinner, got into a dispute with private security guards at another mining site. She said the guards had agreed to let local diggers sift gravel for diamonds in exchange for around $30 a day. They accused her son of failing to pay the bribe, and when he argued back, she said, “they killed him with a machete.”
Military officials didn’t respond to requests for comment. Angola’s secretary of state for human rights, António Bento Bembe, blames his nation’s long civil war for creating a climate of abuse. “I know lots of these cases happen, and I know of many other cases you haven’t heard of yet,” he said in an interview in Luanda, Angola’s capital. “It is urgent to cultivate a culture of human rights.”
The issue has plunged the Kimberley Process into the worst crisis in its brief history. Born at a time of great bloodshed on the African continent, the 75-nation Kimberley Process was initially lauded for its commitment to human rights. Rebel movements had seized control of diamond regions in Angola, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo and used the gems to finance marauding guerrilla armies. Facing a public-relations nightmare, world diamond companies agreed to buy rough stones only if they are certified by internationally recognized governments. The Kimberley Process says well over 99% of the world’s rough-diamond trade is now “conflict-free.”
The Kimberly Process was destined to fail because you can’t have an industry regulate itself. It’s back to the fox guarding the hen house. Self-regulation doesn’t work when there are piles of money on the table. –Fred Cuellar
But critics say there’s a big loophole in that definition: It doesn’t take into account human-rights abuses in diamond territory controlled by governments themselves. “The Kimberley Process cut the financial lifeline of rebels, but at the same time it gave legitimacy to corrupt governments that abuse their own people,” says Rafael Marques, a human-rights activist who has worked extensively in northeastern Angola.
Much of the recent controversy is focused on Zimbabwe, where the group Human Rights Watch last year reported that government soldiers massacred over 200 people in a fight to control diamond fields in the east of the country, raped local women and press-ganged peasants into mining work. The Kimberley Process temporarily suspended exports from the area on the grounds that the turmoil was allowing undocumented stones to be smuggled into the world market. Last month, a monitor installed by the Kimberley Process recommended that the ban be lifted, kicking off a fierce debate. A Kimberley Process committee has been deliberating the recommendation and the issue will be taken up in a meeting of the entire group in Tel Aviv starting Monday.
Global Witness, a human-rights organization that helped conceive the Kimberley Process, called for Zimbabwe to be suspended from the group. “Thanks to the impunity and violence in Zimbabwe, blood diamonds are back on the international market,” said Elly Harrowell, a Global Witness activist.
Jewelers are starting to worry that the bad publicity could spook consumers. Matthew Runci, chief executive of Jewelers of America, a trade group which represents jewelry chains from Tiffany & Co. to Zale Corp., says the Kimberley Process should either figure out a way to incorporate human-rights monitoring into its oversight of member countries or invite an outside organization to do it for them. “It’s essential that the public’s confidence in diamonds be maintained at a high level,” he says. Once a diamond has been cut and polished, it’s virtually impossible for the consumer to tell its country of origin.
Tiffany’s can’t take the human rights stage and at the same time run sweatshops out of Botswana. –Fred Cuellar
Cecilia Gardner, a former New York federal prosecutor who serves as the general counsel of the World Diamond Council, says the Kimberley Process is a voluntary organization and isn’t equipped to enforce human-rights compliance. “We don’t have an army, we don’t have a police force,” she says.
In Angola, which far overshadows Zimbabwe in importance to the jewelry market, the Kimberley Process appears to have little appetite for human-rights issues. Last August, when a Kimberley Process peer-review team arrived to check the country’s compliance procedures, Angolan forces were just mopping up a major operation to expel some 30,000 illegal Congolese miners from Angolan territory near here. According to a U.S. State Department report citing local media and nongovernmental organizations, military and police “arbitrarily beat and raped detainees” and forced them to march to the border without food or water. The government has denied committing abuses and says the army was merely securing the nation’s borders.
A confidential Kimberley Process report on the review visit makes no mention of alleged human-rights abuses, although it criticizes Angola for failing to present a plan to better document the output of peasant mining. The group spent just two days in Lunda Norte, an area near the Congo border that has become a flashpoint for clashes between diggers and security forces. According to a draft of the internal report, the delegation intended to visit the site of a large illegal mining operation but was thwarted by “a last-minute decision to participate in a graduation ceremony for new border patrol security officers.” As the team was preparing to depart, the chairman of the Kimberley Process at the time, Namibian politician Bernhard Esau, pronounced the visit a success and brushed off questions about alleged abuses of peasant miners. “The Kimberley Process is not a human-rights organization,” he told reporters.
The roots of Angola’s current blood-diamond problems have much to do with geology. Unlike in Botswana and South Africa, where multinational corporations use heavy machinery to extract diamonds out of deep shafts, much of Angola’s diamond reserves are alluvial, meaning the stones have been washed out of the earth and scattered across the countryside. They’re available to anyone with a shovel and wood-framed sieve, and are difficult for mining companies to secure. More than a million people world-wide earn a living from artisanal mining in alluvial fields, including tens of thousands in Angola alone.
Angola’s artisanal miners, known in Portuguese as garimpeiros, played a pivotal role in the country’s civil war, which lasted for 27 years and left at least a half-million people dead. U.S.-backed troops of the Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or UNITA, fighting to depose a Soviet-supported socialist government, controlled much of the country’s diamond territory. To fund their war effort, they enlisted peasant diggers from here as well as neighboring Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
While UNITA forces committed plenty of atrocities, some people here in Cafunfo say they generally treated garimpeiros fairly. They allowed diggers to keep a percentage of the diamonds they found and established an immigration policy to bring in Congolese workers on 30-day permits, says Enoque Jeremias, a local human-rights investigator. “It was a fair system,” he adds.
The war’s end led to a surge in diamond production, as large mining companies dusted off old claims and launched new operations. Among the players are Odebrecht SA of Brazil, Russia’s state-owned Alrosa; and a company controlled by Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev, all of which operate in joint ventures with the government diamond company Endiama.
But the garimpeiros were hardly prepared to put away their shovels. There’s little agriculture here and almost no jobs outside of the mining sector. Plus, vast parts of the countryside haven’t even been explored yet, much less mined. The peasants proved adept at finding diamond deposits that the big companies missed, and this so-called informal production continued to account for more than one-quarter of the country’s diamond exports, according to the Partnership Africa Canada, an Ottawa-based nongovernmental agency that deals with mining issues.
To soak up those diamonds, Angola authorized foreign-run buying operations to be established in the bush. U.S. diamond giant Lazare Kaplan International Inc. became a fixture in the area, signing a technical agreement with the government to set up buying houses. Lazare Kaplan says it let the agreement expire in 2008, when world diamond prices collapsed, and is now winding down operations in Angola. Lazare Kaplan Chairman Maurice Tempelsman, the late-life companion of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, says the company was trying to bring development to the area and help strengthen Angola’s Kimberley Process controls. “I am strongly committed to the protection of human rights,” Mr. Tempelsman says, adding: “I believe in this imperfect world, involvement in trying to bring about constructive change is the best course.”
Lazare Kaplan’s withdrawal has left a wide-open field for other buyers, including a company controlled by Israel’s Mr. Leviev, as well as a flood of newcomers from West Africa and the Middle East. Their storefronts line the muddy streets of Cafunfo, trying to outdo each other with mirror-signed bling.
For Ahmad Mouein, a Lebanese buyer who bills himself as “Boss Mouein,” it’s a great business opportunity despite the recession in the diamond market. “Sometimes a digger here can sell you a $500,000 stone for $5,000, $10,000,” he marvels. He says the Kimberley Process hasn’t succeeded in its primary mission of halting smuggling. “Kimberley or not Kimberley, my friend, for the diamond, you can do what you want.”
By many accounts, the presence of these buying houses has only fanned the violence by encouraging more peasants to get into the mining business at the same time that government security forces have been tasked with stopping them.
At one such illegal mine, an hour’s motorcycle ride over trails outside of Cafunfo, a Dantesque scene unfolds. Perhaps 500 young men are clambering over a vast pit dug deep into the red earth. They’ve been at it for a year now, and figure they have months to go until they hit a vein of gravel they believe will contain diamonds. Their tools are rudimentary—pikes and shovels—and the work is backbreaking, alleviated only by the homegrown marijuana many smoke and the small sachets of alcohol that can be had everywhere for a dollar.
They live on the site in homemade tents and work in shifts. To support themselves, they say, they make agreements with buyers, especially the West Africans, to split the take.
Caxaculo Milonga, 44, says he’s on the hook with a man he knows as Boss Ibrahim from Senegal. Although Boss Ibrahim paid medical expenses when a run-in with police and soldiers sent him to the hospital, Mr. Milonga complains that the deal is unfair because he has to give Boss Ibrahim 50% of all production, then sell the rest to him at a rock-bottom price. “We work like slaves and they’re cheating us,” he says. “You can’t argue or he’ll call the police.” Another garimpeiro says his sponsor at one time was a police investigator in Cafunfo, making any negotiation pointless.
Concerns about security forces are never far away. Last year, as part of the latest effort to expel Congolese diggers, the Angolan army moved into the area in force. In recent months patrols have paid a visit to the mine, harassing miners and slapping them with the flat side of their machetes, the miners say. The diggers worry that the army is just waiting until they hit gravel so they can move in and take the diamonds for themselves.
Near another illegal mining site, peasants described a similar scenario. In December, an army patrol swept through the village of Bundo in search of mining tools, says Cazanguia Andre, the 60-year-old deputy chief of the village. He says he ran into them on the way back from tilling his field, and they accused him of being a garimpeiro. They then hit him twice in the head with a rifle butt and struck him with a pole, he adds, breaking his arm. Later, after they discovered shovels at the local church, which Mr. Andre says were being used for construction, they arrested three people.
A lieutenant at a nearby temporary army encampment declined to be interviewed but said his squad hasn’t committed any abuses of the local population and isn’t involved in any mining activities.
Back in Bundo, four garimpeiros give a different story. They say when soldiers swept through they discovered the garimpeiros working with a water pump in a pit. The soldiers confiscated the pump. Then a negotiation ensued, says one garimpeiro, and the soldiers agreed to give back the pump in exchange for $54—as well as a split of the action. “When we hit the gravel, the soldiers will be present to get their share,” he says.
Blood diamonds were bred out of civil wars. The wars maybe over but the corruption has just gone higher up the ladder. Puppet masters of blood diamonds are the governments themselves. If the U.S. continues to barter and trade with corrupt regimes, then the U.S. buying public has no one to blame for the blood that is on our hands. –Fred Cuellar
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De Beers to Reduce Diamond Supply 50% on U.S. Slump
By Carli Lourens for Bloomberg
Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) — De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, will reduce the amount of rough gems offered to customers by about 50 percent until April after U.S. retail sales slumped over Christmas.
Retail sales in the U.S., the world’s largest diamond market, dropped by as much as 20 percent over Christmas and “underperformed” the company’s expectations, said Varda Shine, head of Johannesburg-based De Beers’s marketing unit. The drop in full-year U.S. sales was in “the high single digits,” Shine said in a speech yesterday, a copy of which was e-mailed today.
Consumers in the U.S., which accounts for about half of global retail sales, are reining in spending as the economy shrinks. ZAO Alrosa, Russia’s diamond monopoly, said last month it expects fourth-quarter sales last year to drop 31 percent below average quarterly levels. Toronto-based BRC DiamondCore Ltd. said last week it will extend a shutdown at its South African operations and start talks with labor unions over job cuts because of “depressed” diamond prices.
Global demand contracted marginally last year and will do so again this year, Shine said. Diamond prices fell about 11 percent in the last six months according to an index compiled by Polished Prices, which tracks prices.
“The diamond market will worsen before improving, simply because the chill of global recession is going to become increasingly evident in the form of accelerating job losses,” Des Kilalea, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets in London, wrote in a report yesterday. “People don’t rush out to buy luxury goods in a recession.”
‘Limited Market’
Generations have seen “world wars, a depression, and too many booms and busts to remember, but none of us have ever seen anything quite like this,” De Beers managing director Gareth Penny told customers at a function late yesterday. “There is no point in producing or trying to sell it when there is a limited market for it.”
De Beers has already started reducing capital expenditure, cutting discretionary spending and reviewing staffing levels across all operations, Penny said. The company’s production cuts will be “significant,” he said.
Market reports estimate De Beers will reduce annual output “well in excess of 30 percent,” RBC said in its report.
De Beers’ sales of rough diamonds, or gems that have yet to be cut or polished, climbed 10 percent to $3.3 billion in the first half. Demand growth in China, India and the Middle East helped counter lower gem sales in the U.S.
Anglo American Plc, which is based in London, owns 45 percent of De Beers with the rest owned by the Oppenheimer family and the government of Botswana.
Blood Diamonds
- Any diamond that was mined using oppressed labor in unsanitary working conditions.
- Any diamond whose oppressed labor force was victimized in the form of rape, mutilations (loss of arms or legs), beatings, verbal abuse, unconscionable working hours, and below poverty wage structure.
- Any diamond that the company who mined it or controls its tariffs is part of a monopoly.
- Any diamond that funds wars or corporate greed where profits supersede human life.
- Any diamond that is used to oppress any human life or the extinction of any race, tribe or sub-culture.
- Any diamond that is purposely graded incorrectly and marketed for corporate profits instead of consumer satisfaction.
- Any diamond that is sold at a price above its secondary market resale value forcing the consumer to take a significant loss if it was to be resold.
Building Noah’s Ark & Joining Lucy
When men began to increase in numbers on Earth and daughters were born onto them,2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of whom they chose.3 Then the LORD said, “my spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
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The Nephilim were on the Earth in those days- and also afterward- when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children with them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
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The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the Earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only on evil all the time.6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the Earth and his heart was filled with pain.7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind whom I have created, from the face of the Earth- men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air- for I am grieved that I have made them.”
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Warping
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See No Evil
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Brilliance: | 52% to 55% | 70% to 80% |
Dispersion: | 45% to 48% | 20% to 30% |
Light return: | 67% to 91.3% | 38.8% to 54.78% |
Bow tie: | None | Medium to strong |
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What it means to you
Nothing! The Canadians, as well as all the foreigners they are letting mine, don’t want to see the price of diamonds fall. It’s not in their best interest. They are going to do what’s been done for the last hundred years; allow certain amount to the market and hoard the rest for future consumption. What’s the point then? You can rest assured that your great, great, great, great grand children will have diamonds to wear when it comes time for them to go diamond shopping.
Diamonds will never become extinct.
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Fine Print
The following 13 fine print sentences are the most prevalent and destructive to your rights as a consumer in the world of jewelry, lab reports and jewelry insurance. If any item you contemplate buying is saddled with one or more of these fine print “viruses”, then the potential purchase and subsequent enjoyment of that purchase will likely be compromised.
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Caveat Emptor
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Asian Star Co. Ltd. 114C, Mittal Court, Nariman Point Mumbai, India 400021 Phone: (91) (22) 2364-8450 Fax: (91) (22) 2364-7268 www.asianstarco.com Contact: Dharmesh Shah, info@asinstar.com | Astra Diamond Manufactures 54 Bezalel Street, 16th Floor Ramat Gan, Israel 52521 Phone: (972) (3) 575-9351 Fax: (972) (3) 752-2105 www.astradiamond.com, www.pddltd.com, www.fancycolors.net Contact: Netta E’dan, netta@astradiamonds.com |
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Cygnus Jewelry 15 W. 46th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 768-1881 Fax: (212) 840-5741 Contact: Hemant Patel, hemant@cyg |
DD Manufacturing N.V. Schupstraat 9-11 Block B Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 232-3665 Fax: (32) (3) 202-4116 www.ddmanufacturing.com Contact: Meni Boro, meni@ddmfg.net; Eli Ivri, eli@ddmfg.net | D. Navinchandra 211 Prasad Chambers Opera House, Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) 22-5638-3100 Fax: (91) 22-2363-0186 www.dnavin.com Contact: Dilip Mehta, info@dnavin.com | Dali Diamond Co. Hoveniersstraat 51, Suite 1302 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 233-7912 Fax: (32) (3) 234-2615 www.dalidiamond.com Contact: Isi Morsel, i.morsel@dalidiamond.com | Dalumi Diamonds 1 Jabotinsky Street, 10th Floor Ramat Gan, Israel 52520 Phone: (972) (3) 755-0000 Fax: (972) (3) 575-1876 www.dalumi.com Contact: Yuval Kemp, yuval@dalumi.com |
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Diamond Direct 145 W. 45th Street New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 947-4036 Fax: (212) 564-9012 Contact: Sheryl Silberg, Sheryl@ddl-adi.com | Diamonds by Erickson Beamon 498 Seventh Avenue, 24th Floor New York, NY 10018 Phone: (212) 643-4810 Fax: (212) 971-6066 www.diamondsbyericksonbeamon.com Contact: Monique Erickson, onique@showroomseven.com | Diarough N.V. Hoveniersstraat 30, 11th Floor Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 234-2424 Fax: (32) (3) 232-3931 www.diarough.com | Digico Holdings Ltd. Hoveniersstraat 30, Box 201 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 226-2728 Fax: (32) (3) 226-0023 www.digicogroup.com Contact: info@digicogroup.net |
Dimexon Diamonds Ltd. 804 Raheja Chambers, Nariman Point Mumbai, India 400021 Phone: (91) (22) 5636-7777 Fax: (91) (22) 5636-7599 www.dimexon.com Contact: Paras Mehta, para.mehta@dimexon.com | Downey Creations 2265 Executive Drive Indianapolis, IN 46241 Phone: (317) 248-9888 Fax: (317) 244-6823 www.downeycreations.com Contact: Dave Downey | Dynamic Diamond Corp. 580 Fifth Avenue, Suite 501 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 575-8880 Fax: (212)575-2049 www.dynamicdiamond.com Contact: Jodi Moss, jmoss@dynamicdiamond.com | Dynamic Design Group Inc. 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 11th Floor New York, NY 10036 Phone: (800) 347-9999 Fax: (212) 840-7737 Contact: Amit Sanghavi, amit@ddg-ny.com |
E.F.D. Ltd. Maccabi Bldg., 22nd Floof, Suite 2238 PO Box 3128 Ramat Gan, Israel 52520 Phone: (972) (3) 575-3388 Fax: (972) (3) 575-0210 www.efd.com | Eloquence Corp. 35 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036 Phone: (800) 223-7390 Fax: (212) 302-5269 | EMA Rama Inc. 15 W. 47th Street, Suite 705 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (800) 255-7262 Fax: (212) 827-0637 Contact: Naftali Ratzerdorfer, naftalir@emarama.com | Emby International 592 Fifth Avenue, 11th Floor New York, NY 10036 Phone: (800) USA-EMBY fax: (212) 282-1110 Contact: Manish Patel, manish@embyintl.com |
EMA Diamond Manufacturing Ltd. 54 Bezalel Street, Suite 2074 Ramat Gan, Israel 52520 www.ema-rama.com Contact: Jeremy Glass, jglass@ema-diamonds.com | Eternal Collections 20 E. 46th Street, Suite 900 New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 719-9748 Fax: (212) 922-9154 Contact: Sanjay Javeri, prismdiamond@yahoo.com | Eurostar Diamonds International Hoveniersstraat 53, 8th Floor Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 213-7777 Fax: (32) (3) 213-7799 www.eurostardiamond.com Contact: Kaushik Mehta, info@eurostardiamond.com |
Fabrikant Tolkowsky Kunstler 1 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10020 Phone: (212) 719-4562 Fax: (212) 765-2586 Contact: Robert Cornfield, robc@fabrikant.com | Fabrikant-Tara International 1 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10020 Phone: (212) 757 0790 Fax: (212) 765-2586 Contact: Robert Cornfield, robc@fabrikant.com | Fanci Source Inc. 576 Fifth Avenue, Suite 705 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 719-4562 Fax: (212) 719-4773 Contact: Dushyant Choudhry, dchoudhry@hotmail.com | Fancy Trading Company, LLC. 1 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10020 Phone: (800) 262-0047 Fax: (212) 581-4976 Contact: Rob Vance, robv@fabrikant.com |
Fine Diamonds LLC. 555 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 949-0858 Fax: (212) 949-0821 Contact: Doran Meents, dmeents@finediamonds-usa.com | Festdiam Cutting Works 225 Main Street, Suite 308 Johannesburg, South Africa 2000 Phone: (27) (11) 334-0024 Fax: (27) (11) 334-5851 www.sagems.com, www.southafricandiamonds.com, www.howardengleinc.com Contact: Jeffrey Meents, jeff@festdiam.co.za | Fruchter Gad Diamonds Suite 1542, Maccabi Building, 1 Jabotinsky Street Ramat Gan, Israel 52520 Phone: (972) (3) 751-5630 Fax: (972) (3) 575-0935 www.fruchtergad.com Contact: Raphael Rom, romr@fruchtergad.com |
Geffen’s Cutting Works 216 Fox Street Johannesburg, South Africa 2001 Phone: (27) (11) 334-7220 Fax: (27) (11) 334-0596 Contact: Cecil Kramer, cecil@onwe.co.za | Gembel Group Vestingstraat 74, Floor 2 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 231-4815 Fax: (32) (3) 227-4574 www.geskay.com Contact: Chetan Mehta, chetan@geskay.com | Gemglow Inc. 579 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1080 New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 829-0868 Fax: (212) 829-0848 www.gemglow.com Contact: Ritesh Lakhi, rlakhi@gemglow.com | Graff USA 589 Fifth Avenue, Suite 812 New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 588-8735 Fax: (212) 588-1649 |
HRA USA Ltd. 888 Brannan Street, Suite 4140 San Francisco, CA 94103 Phone: (415) 255-1495 Fax: (415) 255-1496 Contact: Robin Mackenzie, info@hrausa.com | Hans Diam Inc., Prime International 592 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 869-4267 Fax: (212) 869-4987 | Hasenfeld-Stein 580 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 575-0290 Fax: (212) 391-4597 www.hasenfels-stein.com Contact: Hertz Hasenfeld, hertz@hasenfeld-stein.com | Hearts On Fire 99 Summer Street Boston, MA 02110 Phone: (617) 912-5300 Fax: (617) 523-4814 www.heartsonfire.com Contact: Peter Smith, psmith@heartsonfire.com |
Herbert Goldberg Company 14951 Dallas Parkway, Suite 250 Dallas, TX 75254 Phone: (800) 444-5566 Fax: (972) 490-4660 www.herbertgldberg.com Contact: Robert Goldberg, Robert@herbertgoldberg.com | Howard Engle, Inc. 555 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 682-2999 Fax: (212) 682-5540 www.howardengleinc.com Contact: Howard Engle, sales@howardengleinc.com |
IGC Group Hoveniersstraat, Box 248 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 203-4567 Fax: (32) (3) 231-1634 www.igcgroup.com Contact: Christophe DeBorrekens, cdb@igcgroup.com | Indian Diamond Imports, Inc. 15 W. 47th Street, Suite 407 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 921-0056 Fax: (212) 921-2920 Contact: Nimesh Shan, idinyc@verizon.net | Instyle Jewellery 580 Fifth Avenue, Suite 911 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 704-2111 Fax: (212) 704-9994 | Interjewel 580 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1512 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 869-7801 Fax: (212) 869-4062 Contact: Sanjay Kothari, sales@interjewel.com |
Intergem Inc. 550 S. Hill Street, Suite 1256 Los Angeles, CA 90013 Phone: (213) 622-0207 Fax: (213) 489-7911 Contact: Umesh Mehta, intergem@belairmail.net | Ishaia Trading 579 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 371-6990 |
J.B. Diamonds 406 Prasad Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2361-1111 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-0714 www.jbgroupworldwide.com Contact: Vallabh Surani, admin@jbdiamondsindia.com | JKD West LLC. 9601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 730 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Phone: (310)550-1115 Fax: (310) 550-1112 Contact: Zuri Mesica, zurie@juliusklein.com | Jacob & Co. 48 E. 57th Street New York<NY 10022 Phone: (212) 888-2330 Fax: (212) 719-0074 www.jacobandco.com | Jewel Goldi (NY) Inc. 2 W. 46th Street, Suite 1108 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 398-3050 Fax: (212) 398-3051 www.jewelgoldi.com Contact: Vishwajit Jariwala, jit@jewelgoldi.com |
Jayam N.V. Hoveniersstraat 50-52 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 231-0935 Fax: (32) (3) 232-9220 www.jayamnv.be Contact: Mihir Mehta, info@jayamnv.be | Jewelex India Pvt. Ltd. 11 Jain Towers, 17 Mathre Road, Opera House Mumbai, India 400006 Phone: (91) (22) 2361-0900 Fax: (91) (22) 2361-0911 Contact: Nilesh Kothari, nilesh@jewelexindia.com | Julius Klein Group 20 West 47th Street New York, NY 10036 Phone: (800) 334-0919 Fax: (212) 921-1769 www.juliusklein.com Contact: Moshe Klein, moshe@juliusklein.com |
K. Girdharlal International Pvt. Ltd. 1011 Prasad Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363_1513 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-3027 www.kgirdharlal.com Contact: Nick Gould, nick@kgirdharlal.com | KGK Enterprises 647A Panchratna, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2369-8881 Fax: (91) (22) 2369-9102 www.kgkgroup.com Contact: Monika Divekar, monica@kgkgroup.com | K.P. Sanghvi Group 1301 Prasad Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363-0315 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-0813 www.kpsanghvi.com Contact: Arvind Sanghvi, arvind@kpsanghvi.com | KP Diamond Jewelry 7500 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite 1025 Houston, TX 77036 Phone: (713) 541-9393 Fax: (713) 541 – 9494 www.kphouston.com |
Karp Impex Ltd. 1411 Prasad Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2369-9511 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-4491 www.karpgroup.com Contact: Alkesh Sanghavi, alkeshanghavi@karpgroup.com | Kiran Exports 109 Prasad Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2367-6241 Fax: (91) (22) 2368-2436 www.kiranexports.net | Kristall, Inc. 611 W. 6th Street, Suite 1800 Los Angeles, CA Phone: (213) 624-4000 Fax: (213) 624-1450 | Kristall Production Corporation 4 Babushkin Street Smolensk, Russia 214031 Phone: (7) (4812) 45-0550 Fax: (7) (4812) 61-0087 www.kristallmolensk.com Contact: Edward Shtirbescu, eshtirbescu@kristallsmolensk.com |
L.I.D. Ltd. 23 Tuval Street, Noam Bldg. 11th Floor Ramat Gan, Israel 52521 Phone: (972) (3) 575-7333 Fax: (972) (3) 752-2488 www.liddiamonds.com Contact: Jack Cohen, info@liddiamonds.com | Lakhi Group (Dilipkumar V. Lakhi) 102 Prasad Chmabers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363-3023 Fax: (91) (22) 2368-1082 www.lakhigroup.com Contact: Dilipkumar Lakhi, dvl@lakhigroup.com | Laxmi Diamond 316 Prasad Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2367-7007 Fax: (91) (22) 2367-0390 www.laxmidiamond.com Contact: Nitin Gajera, laxmijpl@vsnl.com | Lazare Kaplan International Inc. 19 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 972-9700 Fax: (212)972-8561 www.lazarediamonds.com Contact: Marcee Feinberg, mfeinberg@idealcut.com |
Leo Schachter Diamonds 54 Bezalel Street Ramat Gan, Israel 52521 Phone: (972) (3) 576-6222 Fax: (972) (3) 575-3569 www.lsdco.com Contact: Elliot Tannenbaum, elliot.tannenbaum@lsdco.com | Lili Diamonds 1 Jabotinsky Street, Diamond exchnge Bldg. Ramat Gan, Israel 2133 Phone: (972) (3) 575-0011 Fax: (972) (3) 575-0976 www.lili-diamonds.com | Livingstones 603 Dharam Palace, N.S. Patkar Marg. Gamdevi, Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2361-1444 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-2314 www.livingstones.com Contact: sandip@livingstones.com | Lockes Diamantaires 10 Columbus Circle New York, NY 10019 Phone: (212) 823-9511 www.lockesdiamonds.com |
Louis Glick Diamond Corporation 1271 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Phone: (212) 259-0300 Fax: (212) 489-8178 www.louisglick.com Contact: Faye Winter, fwinter@louisglick.com |
M. Fabrikant & Sons, Inc. 1 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10020 Phone: (212) 757-0790 Fax: (212) 581-3061 www.fabrikant.com Contact: Robert Cornfield, robc@fabrikant.com | M. Suresh Company Pvt. Ltd. Jain Tower, 15th-16th Floor, 17 Mathew Road, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363-9001 Fax: (91) (22) 2369-6492 www.msureshco.com Contact: Paresh Pethani, msurseh@msureschco.com | Mahendra Brothers 611 Panchranta, Mama Parmanand Marg. Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363-4565 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-2061 www.mahendrabrothers.com Contact: Milan Parikh, info@mahendrabrothers.com | MaxMark Inc. 5 S. Wabash, Suite 1500 Chicago, IL 60603 Phone: (312) 201-1001 Fax: (212) 201-1008 Contact: Pratik Shah, pratik@maxmarkjewelry.com |
Memoire P.O. Box 740 Skaneateles, NY 13152 Phone: (315) 685-1343 Fax: (315) 685-0403 Contact: J. Douglas McDowell, jdmmc@adelphia.net | Michael Werdiger 35 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036 Phone: (800) 223-7390 Fax: (212) 302-5269 www.michaelwerdiger.com Contact: Ben Burne, bgfb@mwiny.com | Minestone 514 Panchratna, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363-6901 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-3648 www.minestone.biz Contact: Samir Mehta, samir@minestone.biz | Mohit Diamonds 5th Floor, Mehta Bhavan, 311 New Charni Road Mumbai, India 400006 Phone: (91) (22) 2382-7777 Fax:: (91) (22) 2380-9889 www.mohitdiamonds.com Contact: Piyush Shan, diamonds, piyushshah@mohitdiamonds.com; Robin Mehta, jewelry, robinmehta@mohitjewellery.com |
Moti Ganz Yahalom Bldg. 21 Tuval Street Ramat Gan, Israel 52522 Phone: (972) (3) 575-2218 Fax: (972) (3) 575-1210 www.motiganz.com Contact: Ronit Ganz, ronit@motiganz.com |
Navin Gems 1112/A Prasas Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363-4124 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-0299 www.navingems.com Contact: Parag Shah, info@navingems.com | Neil Joseph 5295 Town Center Road, Suite 200 Boca Raton, FL 33486 Phone: (561) 394-5144 Fax: (561) 361-1925 |
Orli Diamonds 67 E. Madison Street, Suite 1606 Chicago, IL 60603 Phone: (312) 332-0990 Fax: (312) 332-2914 www.orlidiamonds.com Contact: Hadasa Dekalo, orli@orlidiamonds.com | Overseas Diamonds N.V. Hoveniersstraat 2, Suite 803 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 234-3014 Fax: (32) (3) 234-1517 www.overseasdiamonds.com Contact: Asher Lubeleski, office@overseasdiamonds.com |
PDD NYC 589 Fifth Avenue, Suite 906 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (646) 619- 0056 Fax: (646) 619-0058 Contact: Yoni Mizrahi, yonim@pddltd.com | Paras Diamond Corp. dba Amikam 592 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10036 Phone: (800) 232-2728 Fax: (212) 764-7593 Contact: Samir Mehta, samir@amikam-paras.com | Pluczenik Diamond Company Beurs voor Diamanthandel, Suite 1601, Pelikaanstraat 78 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 231-7710 www.pluczenik.com | Premier Diamond Cutting Ltd. 1249/123-127 Gems Tower, 11/F Charoenkrung Road, Bangrak Bangkok, Thailand 10500 Phone: (66) (2) 267-4851 Fax: (66) (2) 237-6452 www.premier-bkk.com Contact: Achiraya Inkatanuvat, pmierdia@premierbkk.com |
Premier Gem Corporation 529 Fifth Avenue, 19th and 20th Floors New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 319-5151 Fax: (212) 759-2255 www.premiergem.com Contact: Nicky Schur, info@premiergem.com | Prism Diamonds Inc. 20 E. 46th Street, Suite 900 New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 719-9748 Fax: (212) 922-9154 Contact: Sanjay Javeri, prismdiamonds@yahoo.com |
Rachminov Diamonds 48 W. 48th Street, Suite 803 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (866) 400-5989 Fax: (212) 354-1991 Contact: Marsh Ramras, marsh@fancycolor.net | Rand Precision Cut Diamonds (Pty.) Ltd. Suite 601, S.A. Jewellery Centre, Philip and Main Streets Johannesburg, South Africa 2023 Phone: (27) (11) 334-6216 Fax: (27) (11) 334-5559 | Ratilal Becharla & Sons (Jasani Group) 401/2 Prasad Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363-1351 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-1918 www.jasanigroup.com Contact: Apurva Kothari, info@jasanigroup.com | |
Richold S.A. Cours de Rive 10 Geneva, Switzerland 1204 Phone: (41) (22) 731-3150 Fax: (41) (22) 731-4397 Contact: Maurice Dabbah, info@richold.com | Ritani 2 W. 45th Street, Suite 307 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 997-7742 Fax: (212) 997-7682 | Robert Lee Morris 400 West Broadway NY, NY 10012 Phone (212) 633 4948 Contact: Allison Aston, allisona@roberleemorris.com | Rosy Blue Inc. 529 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 687-8838 Fax: (212) 856-9828 Contact: Dipu Mehta dipu@rosyblue.com |
Rosy Blue N.V. Hoveniersstraat 53 Antwerp, Belgium 201 Phone: (32) (3) 206-1600 Fax: (32) (3) 206-1601 www.rosyblue.com Contact: Raj Mehta, raj.mehta@rosyblue.com |
S.A. Gems 67 E. Madison, Suite 1816 Chicago, IL 60603 Phone: (800) 344-6605 Fax: (312) 372-3924 www.sagems.com Contact: Chris LaTrobe, clatrobe@sagems.com | S. Vinodkumar Diamonds Private Limited 509/510 Prasad Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2369-0364 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-0704 www.svindkumar.com Contact: Amish Shah, amish.shah@svinodkumar.com | Safdico Ltd. St. Jamew Court, Suite 308, St. Denis Street Port Louis, Rep. of Mauritius Phone: (230) 211-6242 Fax: (230) 211-7489 www.safdico.com | Samdimon Inc. 589 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1008 New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 575-2358 Fax: (212) 575-2359 www.samdimon.com |
Sanghavi Diamonds 550 S. Hill Street, Suite 1141 Los Angeles, CA 90013 Phone: (213) 623-1817 Fax: (213) 623-2819 Contact: Nirav Shah, sanghavila@yahoo.com | Sanghavi Diamonds Inc. 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 11th Floor New York, NY 10036 Phone: (800) 234-1787 Fax: (212) 719-4186 | Savin Diamond Corp. 580 Fifth Avenue, Suite 810 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 840-3050 Fax: (212) 840-3172 Contact: Mitesh Gandhi, savininc@aol.com | Schachter & Namdar (Pty.) Ltd. South African Jewelry Center, Suite 619 Johannesburg, South Africs 2023 Phone: (27) (11) 334-3403 Fax: (27) (11) 334-3514 Contact: Emanuel Namdar, emanuel@sn-asia.com |
Sheetal Manufacturing Company 1001 Prasad Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363-4884 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-4849 www.sheetalgroup.com Contact: Hirabhai Kakadia, inquiry@sheetalgroup.com | Shree Ramkrishna Export 214 Prasas Chambers, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 5552-5000 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-3846 www.shreemkrishnaexport.com | Simmons Jewelry Company 1 Rockefeller Plaza, 28th Floor New York, NY 10020 Phone: (212) 397-0981 Fax: (212) 397-0975 www.simmonsjewelryco.com | Smolensk Diamonds USA, Inc. 580 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10036 PhoneL212) 921-4300 Fax: (212) 921-4646 |
S.N. Asia (USA) Inc. 589 Fifth Avenue, Suite 901 New York, NY 10017 Phone: (800) 421-8063 Fax: (212) 421-8033 Contact: Menashe Friedman, mfriedman@snasia.com | Sotheby’s Diamonds 1334 York Avenue New York, NY 10021 Phone: (212) 894-1400 www.sothrbydiamonds.com Contact: Christina Floyd, christina.floyd@sothebys.com | Star Asia Inc. 7 W. 47th Street, Suite 401 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 997-7827 Fax: (212) 398-4446 Contact: Sailesh Sanghvi, sailesh@starasianinc.com | Star Diamond Enterprises 576 Fifth Avenue, Suite 805 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 869-5115 Fax: (212) 869-1399 |
Stuller P.O. Box 87777 Lafayette, La 70598-7777 Phone: (800) 877-7777 www.stuller.com Contact: Blaine Latiolais, blaine_latiolais@stuller.com | Steinmetz Group (Diacor International Ltd.) P.O. Box 1064 Geneva, Switzerland 1211 Phone: (41) (22) 788-1460 Fax: (41) (22) 788-1461 www.steinmetz-group.com Contact: Lara Protopapa, info@steinmetz-group.com | Spira Diamonds Pelikaanstraat 78 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 232-9032 Fax: (32) (3) 225-2232 www.spiradiamonds.com Contact: Alain Schiff, alainschiff@spiradiamonds.com | Shrenuj & Company Ltd. 405 Dharam Palace, 100-103 NS Patkar Marg. Mumbai, India 400007 Phone: (91) (22) 5637-3500 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-2982 www.schrenuj.com Contact: Vishal Doshi, diamonds@shrenuj.com |
Suashish Diamonds Limited 11th Floor, Mehta Mahal, 15 Mathew Road Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363-7151 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-0683 www.suashish.com | Suberi 902 Broadway, 14th Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone: (212) 979-9100 Fax: (212) 979-5331 | Sundiamond bvba Hovenierstraat 19 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 232-1711 Fax: (32) (3) 231-0528 www.sundiamond.com, www.sundiamond.be | Supergems Holdings Jebel Ali Free Zone, P.O. Box 17763, MODI-40, Road 731 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Phone: (97) (14) 881-4950 Fax: (97) (14) 881-9947 www.supergemsgroup.com Contact: Walter Hawes, dubai.polished@supergemsgroup.com |
Suresh Brothers 511 Panchratna, M.P. Marg, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2363-1741 Fax: (91) (22) 2363-2654 www.sureshbros.com Contact: Sachin Ved, sachin@sureshbros.com |
Tache’ Company N.V. Hoveniersstraat 53 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 234-1818 Fax: (32) (3) 231-8792 www.tachedimamonds.com Contact: Jean-Jacques Tache’, joshw@tachediamonds.com | Tara Jewels Exports Pvt. Ltd. B/14 Girgaum Terrace, Benham Hall Lane, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 5677-4444 Fax: (91) (22) 5677-4464 www.tarajewels.co.in Contact: Sajid Sakarwalla, sajid@tarajewels.co.in | Tasaki Shinju Co. Ltd. 3-2, 6 Chome, Minatojima Nakamachi Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan Phone: (81) (78) 303-3321 Fax: (81) (78) 302-4521 www.tasaki.co.jp Contact: Masanobu Ebistani, m-ebisutani@tasaki.co.jp | Tiffany & Co. 555 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10022 Phone: (212) 277-5900 www.tiffany.com |
Uni Design USA 592 Fifth Avenue, 11th Floor New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 282-1111 Fax: (212) 282-1122 Contact: Shreyash Mehta, shreyash@unidesignusa.com | Univeral Pacific 579 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1515 New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 813-1110 Fax: (212) 813-1122 | Uri Schwartz & Sons Diamonds Ltd. 580 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2012 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 575-8051 Fax: (212) 575-8065 Contact: Zvi Ben Joseph, zvi@aschwartz.com |
Venus Jewel 901-902 Panchrantna, Opera House Mumbai, India 400004 Phone: (91) (22) 2367-4444 Fax: (91) (22) 2367-3333 www.venusjewel.com Contact: Anil Shah, anilshah@venusjewel.com | Venus Solitaire Inc. 580 Fifth Avenue, Suite 537 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 921-1800 | Vijaydimon Pelikaanstraat 54 Antwerp, Belgium 2018 Phone: (32) (3) 203-0596 Fax: (32) (3) 233-9838 Contact: Milind Kothari, vijaydiamond@pandora.be | Vijay Gold designs Corp. 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 302-0945 Fax: (212) 302-0872 Contact: Kayomarz Khambatta, kayomarz@vijaygold.com |
Vishinda Inc. 579 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1220 New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 829-0725 Fax: (212) 829-0371 Contact: Prakash Lakhi, prakash@vishinda.com |
WF Diamond, Inc. 580 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2200 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (800) 458-3678 Fax: (212) 354-0003 www.wfdiam.com Contact: Atsmon Paz, apaz@wfdiamonds.com | Weindling International LLC. 529 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 764-7979 Fax: (212) 764-9779 www.weindling.com Contact: Shelly Gordon, shelley@weindling.com | Wing Hang Diamond Co. Ltd. 1605-9, Lane Crawford House, 64-70A Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong Phone: (852) 2526-6512 Fax: (852) 2868-4988 www.winghangdiamond.com |
YEI Yahalomei Espeka International Ltd. 23 Tuval Street, Noam Building, Suite 501 | Yerushalmi Brothers Diamond Ltd. Diamond Exchange, Building Maccabi 342, 1 Jabotinsky Street Ramat Gan, Israel 52520 Phone: (97) (2) 3575-0151 Fax: (97) (2) 3575-0152 www.yerushalmi.com |
Potato Chips and Rough Diamonds?
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Now to the potato chip analogy. Take any bag of potato chips. Firmly pinch both the left and right tops of the bag (right under the glued part). Now pull! See the chips? Smell the freshness (ok freshness is not really a factor for this example but I’m trying to put you in the moment). Look in the bag. . . . How many perfect chips do you see? Four? Five? One? An unopened bag of potato chips is like the earth before we started excavating diamonds. Now start pulling out the chips! Start with the perfect ones, then the next to perfect ones, then the half broken ones and so on and so forth. After you are done pulling, what do you have left? Crumbs! Potato micro chip! That’s where we are in the world of diamonds now. The bottom of the bag. Those first few perfect and less broken chips (in the diamond world) we call crystals, makables, and sawables. The chip crumbs are called macles and flats (see above). The earth has been heavily excavated since the mid-1860s! The good stuff is gone and the world’s miners are sitting on boatloads of macles and flats. They have no choice but to dump them on the market (which they have been doing now relentlessly for the last two years). Since marquise, pears, ovals, Asschers, emerald cuts are all cut from the bottom of the barrel and since the bottom of the barrel is being dumped over our heads, there is now and will forever be an over abundance of these fancy shapes on the market! As any economist will tell you, if supply exceeds demand, the price falls! And diamonds that can’t hold there value can not be bondable. So, as of September 8th 2005, only Box Radiants, Standard Radiants and Rounds are bondable. As everyone knows, nobody wants what everyone can have.
GIA’s Boyajian resigns, questions about grading lab scandal linger


Within the diamond community, Boyajian’s departure was greeted with the sense that the move was unfortunate yet inevitable.
Published in National Jeweler
State of the Union
- Diamond production is declining for the first time in over 25 years.
- Last year, DeBeers, shut down their last three underground mines.
- Of 170 diamond companies globally, only 25 are actually producing.
- Diamond inventories held by DeBeers and other mining companies that totaled over $22 billion US just a few years ago are down to three to four billion.
- In 2005, Rio Tintos’ Argyle mine in Western Australia’s Kimberly region, the world’s largest left $10 billion US of demand unfulfilled. Quite simply, one out of every three orders for a diamond is not filled— and it’s going to get worse. By 2015 Canada’s Ekati mine (run by BHP Billiton) is predicted depleted; Rio’s Diavik mine in Canada is next and the world’s largest, the Argyle mine will be exhausted in the next decade even with a billion dollar overhaul.