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Conflict Diamonds
What "blood diamonds" really are, the wars they funded, and the questions the trade still wrestles with.
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The trade behind the stone — conflict-free guarantees, the Kimberley Process, treatments and the institutions that keep diamonds honest.
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The Kimberley Process
The certification scheme that made rough diamonds among the most audited resources on earth.
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Treatments, Synthetics & Imitations
HPHT, irradiation, laser drilling and the rest — how diamonds are enhanced or imitated, and how the lab tells.
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Important Diamond Institutions
The laboratories, bourses and bodies that set the standards the whole trade runs on.
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