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December 22 ,2002

• Education is Forever :  (English)
  24News.org  | The Diamond Education College based in Johannesburg offers a comprehensive Rough DIAMOND COURSE, aimed "especially for those striving for a career in diamonds and jewelry...
• Creating button jewelry, women fashion new lives  (English)
  The Boston Globe n a basement workshop stacked high with bins and bowls of buttons, where the sounds of Sam Cooke and Nat King Cole drift from...
• Retailers Hope Last-Minute Holiday Buyers Will Show Up in Droves  (English)
  Hoovers 3:22am | Dec. 21--For shoppers and retailers alike, it's down to the wire. | Advertisement: Explore Within This Space With on...
• Archangel Diamond Corporation announces successful private placement  (English)
  Stockhouse TSX Venture Exchange Symbol: AAD 72.2 million shares outstandingTORONTO, Dec 20, 2002 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- | Archa...

December 14 ,2002

• WFDB president urges full implementation of Kimberley Process,liaises in London with industry leaders ahead of January 1 deadline: In a New Year’s message to members of diamond exchanges affiliated to the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB), the organization’s president, Shmuel Schnitzer, has urged the diamond trade to implement all measures contained in the Interlaken Declaration, which was adopted by 52 nations and diamond industry associations in Switzerland in November, and is designed to prevent diamonds from conflict areas from infiltrating the legitimate marketplace
• Diamond Fields settles lawsuit with Trans Hex and MIL loan is reinstated  (English)
  Stockhouse VANCOUVER, Dec 13, 2002 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- | Diamond Fields International Ltd. ("TSX-DFI") is pleased to announc...
• Liquidation of Namco Kicks Off  (English)
  AfricaNews NAMCO Maritime, one of the many subsidiaries of the Namibian Mineral Corporation, was placed in provisional liquidation yeste

December 11 ,2002

• UNITED NATIONS LIFTS DIAMOND SANCTIONS ON ANGOLA BUT KEEPS SANCTIONS ON SIERRA LEONE DIAMONDS, MEANWHILE CONGO STILL HAS NO DIAMOND SANCTIONS.  DOES THE UN HAVE A COORDINATED CONFLICT DIAMOND POLICY?: Global Witness is concerned that the United Nations appears to be re-applying and lifting targeted diamond sanctions in an arbitrary and uncoordinated manner. On 26 November, the UN Security Council voted to keep sanctions on the export of rough diamonds from Liberia, and to renew its arms embargo on the government of Charles Taylor.[i] In a parallel move, the Security Council voted on 4 December to extend the ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone unless they have a government certificate of origin.[ii]   In a contradictory move on Monday 9 December the Security Council voted to lift the 9-year-old sanctions on UNITA’s diamond mining and selling operations and also lifted the arms embargo.
• GIA Research Conducts Largest-Ever Series of Observation Tests on Diamond Appearance: Carlsbad, Calif.  – Using a groundbreaking approach to the evaluation of diamond appearance, research scientists at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) have studied how human observers describe and judge diamonds of various proportions under a variety of conditions.  Diamond dealers, retailers, consumers, and trained observers have all taken part in this ongoing series of observation tests of diamond appearance
• Diamcor announces diamond recovery for November  (English)
  Canada Newswire TSX-VEN Symbol (DMR) KELOWNA, BC, Dec. 10 /CNW/ - Mr. Wayne Wolf President and CEO of Diamcor Mining Inc. ("Diamcor") is plea...
• In South Africa, mounting evidence of Al Qaeda links  (English)
  Michigan Live The Wall Street Journal | DURBAN, South Africa -- Mohamed Suleman Vaid's career as a money courier for suspected terrorists m...
• Trans Hex / Diamond Fields Dispute Settled  (English)
  Stockhouse Trans Hex Group Limited ('Trans Hex') and Diamond Fields International ('DFI') are pleased to announce that the dispute betwe...

December 05 ,2002

• Birthstones — Their Lore and History — to Be Presented by GIA Library Director: Carlsbad, Calif. – December 5, 2002 – Interested in learning about birthstones? An insightful presentation and lecture about the history and lore of birthstones will be given by Dona Dirlam, library director for the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), at the Mineral Society of Southern California’s (MSSC) gem and mineral show Saturday, Dec. 7 at 11:15 a.m. 
• Withdrawal from Mmashoro JV (Diamonds) Botswana  (English)
  Stockhouse 12/5/02 | DIAMOND VENTURES NL 2002-12-05 ASX-SIGNAL-G | HOMEX - Melbourne | Diamond Ventures wishes to announce that it has w...
• Angola  (English)
  Business Day THERE has been a huge surge in demand for Canadian diamonds, but, reports the Globe and Mail, Canadian producers are reluctan
• De Beers warns customers to meet deadline  (English)
  Business Day Failure to adhere to the Kimberley Process will mean that the industry will be unable to trade with the US | Antwerp Correspo...

December 01 ,2002

• Liberia:   (English)
  UN Wire Security Council Extends Sanctions Six Months | The U.N. Security Council extended international sanctions on Liberia yesterd..
• Cartier pegs Patiala jewellery in NY store  (English)
  Hoovers 3:40pm | Chidanand Rajghatta | Advertisement: Explore Within This Space WASHINGTON: A royal piece of princely India is on dis...