This is the biggest pipe I ever discovered

 

Once again the prospective made a huge finding in Canada hit another mother load in Africa.

 

A commercial mine could be worth millions earning huge revenues for the Angolan government and for himself.  But he doesn’t need the money.

 

I am a diamond hunter.  It is addictive.  I hope I don’t have to go into rehab but ahaha….

 

For others, the search for diamonds is a desperate and dangerous bid to escape poverty and tyranny.  In 2006 the discovery in Zimbabwean Marange region sparked a new diamond rush. Thousands of people in the economically ruined country left their jobs to prospect of diamonds. Desperate to control this mineral wealth, Robert Mugabe’s regime declared independent mining illegal.  Zimbabwean diamonds began to flood the market in Antwerp.  Once again it wasn’t the traders or buyers who suffered. 

 

In 2008 government soldiers opened fire on diggers in Marange. More than 200 people were killed. Thousands of others were arrested and bitten.  Its Zimbabwean diamonds didn’t lose their sparkle on the world market.

 

War is opportunity the places where you can make some profits.  It’s places that like where there is conflict. 

 

Diamond trade claims the 99% of stones on the world market for what it turns to conflict free sources.  But conflict free doesn’t always mean trouble free.  Marketed as a token of love and beauty, diamonds continue to exert their allure.  But this brilliant most coveted stone can also represent all that is dark and ugly.