Diamond Mining Case Study

PART 1
Mining In Sierra Leone

You may think diamond are just used for jewellery and fashion but what you may not know is they can be used to revolutionise our technology used in computers, mobile phones and even our everyday appliances!

You may also think that these diamonds come from a completely normal mine with normal workers who get paid a fare wage. But as a matter of fact most of the diamonds you see in a jewellery store aren’t really like that.

Some of these diamonds are actually called blood diamonds, diamonds that have been mined by people who have been kidnapped from their families and forced to become slaves and mine these diamonds and earn around $1 of their currency everyday.

In Zimbabwe the National Army was dispatched to take full control of the diamond mines. In over 5 weeks 200 miners were killed in order to achieve this goal. This would have been a negative impact on the mining industry in Zimbabwe because of the loss of employers. Also the impact on the environment isn’t as bad as gold mining, which some miners use toxic chemicals to find the gold.

Experts claim that the illegal sale of conflict diamonds has produced billions of dollars to fund for civil wars and other wars in Africa, like Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Congo. There was a group called Revolutionary United Front killed, threatened and cut off the arms of the citizens of the mines and area.

PART 2
How are artificial diamonds made?

In this part of our 4-part article we are talking about how artificial diamonds are made. To find this out we went to Gemesis Labs in New York, USA. We found out heaps of interesting facts about diamonds, so we jotted them down and put them in the article below.

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...diamonds are very small and could get lost very easily and if so very hard to find and very difficult to get another one.

In the jewellery industry it would much better to sell these, as they are identical to natural diamonds, jewellers could make some serious money out of this. It would also be a lot cheaper for people to buy these kinds of diamonds. The environment would be a lot safer if people keep on producing more artificial diamonds because home of animals would be safe and the areas wouldn’t have erosion and destruction.

So in conclusion if people want to find diamonds quicker then artificial diamonds are what they need to be looking for. They are cheaper and they don’t destroy land when they are being looked for. They make our electronics much more updated and the future looks bright when disclaimers start using these diamonds in their products.