How do blood diamonds and artificial diamonds not cancel eachother out?
I think another issue is the matter of quality. Artificial industrial diamonds have been around since the ’50s, and according to the USGS 90% of industrial diamonds are artificial. The difficulty has been developing a mass-production process that can create large stones with few flaws.
Within about 5 years nobody will be able to tell a jewelry-quality artificial from a mined diamond. Quite simply, just don’t buy diamonds. There are prettier rocks (emeralds, sapphires anyone?), and it’s the Amsterdam DeBeers folks who make all the money. Diamonds aren’t really all that rare, and the folks who produce them barely stay alive. 3 months of salary my ass, more like 3 lifetimes in purgatory for the nasty diamond perveyors.
