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From: Paul Richter
Date: Fri Dec 07 23:23:29 2001
 
     
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    In agreement with Don- I am from South Africa, where I picked up a
    few stones and had them engraved by laser in Cambridge England. I
    could have ( for all that it matters), engraved a polar bear facing
    left or whaterver. The fact remains that they were mined in SA. The
    point is that laser enscription is no proof of origin. I live in
    Canada now and deal with these polar bear diamonds- nothing is
    telling me that they were mined in Canada- even though I don't
    dispute this. I simply trust the people that supply them. 

    Labs in South Africa were toying with a laser device that prints a
    holographic type image inside the actual stone. It is only visible
    with the correct lab equipment. This was done to a certain extent to
    larger carat stones for i.d. purposes- but it would be impossible to
    implement a global uniform system along these lines to "assure" the
    consumer of the origins of the stone. Does it matter all that much
    where the stone comes from? Who cares- as long as it is good quality
    and cut and didn't help fund a civil war.

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