Monday, June 25, 2007
Ahmedabad: In what may renew a more than four-year-old discuss about India's likely link with the contentious Blood diamonds, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) here claims to have contributions about some of these gemstones being smuggled into Surat, the diamond cutting and shining hub.
Blood or Conflict diamonds create chiefly from war zones like Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they are unlawfully mined and later sold out secretly. The perpetrators use the profits to purchase arms, fund civil wars and military coups not in favor of legitimate governments there.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
SANTA ANA Debbie Kordon stared at the huge aquamarine crystal placed in a thin silver bowl and shout out laughing.
"42,000 carats!" she said, reading from the description of "Evolution Crystallized," a beryl crystal from Brazil that's as large as a plastic milk jug and is 42,222 carats, to be exact. "It's like this piece of nature. It's astonishing. It's gigantic and enormous and gorgeous," Kordon said. "The idea that it stayed whole and they found it is unbelievable."
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