Purchasing Raw Diamonds

Posted by Maire Loughran Dec 17, 2006

Last month I wrote an article about my favorite jewelry designer, Todd Reed. Reed's signature is the use of raw diamonds in his designs.

Coincidentally Blood Diamond, a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou, has just hit the theatres. This movie details the use of 'conflict diamonds' to fund rogue military action against established governments - In this movie that of a horrendous civil war that took place in the late 1990's in Sierra Leone.

One of my prior blogs discussed the Kimberley Process - the self-imposed industry sanction.

The diamond industry response to the movie has been aggressive via print and electronic media campaigns. Their response is also online at www.diamondfacts.org.

Industry experts claim varying degrees of success with controlling the conflict diamond issue in Ivory Coast, Liberia and the Congo.