[Jewelry making - Article 00175] - Re: [Orchid] Tanzanite mis-information

[Patania's]

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    How could any one say " I don't sell conflict stones" with 
    reasonable certainty? To me it would look like a cheap marketing ploy
    to see such a sign. I am pretty certain Bin Ladin didn't pull the
    tanzanite from the ground so if he benefited from the gem trade it
    was somewhere between the miners and us (US). My point being that
    most end users are so far removed from the gem at the mine a boycott
    would be very difficult to target in order to hurt the ones we want
    to hurt while helping those we would like to help. I was also under
    the impression that the tanzanite mines were for the most part closed
    since the flooding. That no tanzanite was coming from the ground and
    that we as users of that stone should be on the look out for
    synthetic now more than ever. Sam Patania, Tucson 

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