It is an industry that was supposed to be cleaned up, after the turn-of-the-millennium notoriety surrounding so-called blood or conflict diamonds—precious stones mined in African war zones ...
International laws prohibit the trade of diamonds from countries in conflict, but for now, it is impossible to be certain of the origin of the precious stones. A Polish laboratory has found the ...
She was made aware of “conflict diamond” issues by a classmate in her MBA class at Stanford. He had a business plan that intrigued Gerstein. (Blood diamonds have funded devastating civil wars ...