Salon.com > blood diamonds http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 18:51:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The myth of conflict-free diamonds http://www.salon.com/2013/01/07/the_myth_of_conflict_free_diamonds/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/07/the_myth_of_conflict_free_diamonds/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:16:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13163664 According to a recent piece in Foreign Policy, the odds are a staggering 1 in 4 that a diamond on the market today is a conflict stone. What's even more troubling: It's become nearly impossible to tell the difference between the clean and dirty gems.

After being shipped in from Africa, Central Asia, and other mining hot spots, thousands of diamonds end up in Surat everyday, a growing metropolis in the Indian state of Gujarat. Once there, stones of different origins -- both legal and illegal -- are mixed together to get cut and polished inside the city's many microfactories. As Foreign Policy's Jason Miklian writes:

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