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By: All about Rocks » » Beware- Trend!

All about Rocks » » Beware- Trend! — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:59:47 +0000

[...] the precious bijoux. The most important trend in terms of jewelry is the growing awareness to the blood diamonds issue which is becoming more and more important for jewelry consumers all over the [...]

By: David Braverman

David Braverman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:12:05 +0000

Hi Andy,

The diamond industry put immense energy and resources in order to follow the rough diamonds down the distribution pipeline. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, popularly known as KPCS, is a process introduced by United Nations resolution 55/56 that is designed to certify the origin of rough diamonds from sources which are free of conflict fueled by diamond production.The process was established in 2003 to prevent rebel groups being financed by diamond sales.By controlling the rough diamonds the polished diamonds that come out of the production centers and traded in the countries signed the KPCS are conflict free as well.
As diamond dealers Diamonds-USA doesn’t purchase rough or polished diamonds from an out of the trade source.Surely the KPCS does not eliminate any illegal activity .It reduces the already small amount of conflict diamonds that were in the market to a negligible quantity.

By: Andy Koehn

Andy Koehn — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:02:38 +0000

I don’t know…you do a good job of assuring us that your diamonds are conflict free…but I think I’d like to some more details about how you do that. What specific steps do you take to make sure you can hold up that statement?

I think it’s cool that you are clear that this blog is from a diamond company…and I give you props for daring to bring up the conflict diamonds issue. Nice work…