MetaFilter: Artifacts of culture? Or artifacts of barbarism? ⇒
10 July 2006, early evening
An interesting set of links on mass producing diamonds. (And some diamonds are evil hysteria. Except it's not quite hysteria, since diamonds actually are pretty evil.)
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
easy on diamonds. i just bought a canadian one—mined, cut, and polished in ekati, NWT.
by Matthew on July 11 2006, 10:42 am #
I can’t wait for my Bike!
by sh!ma on July 11 2006, 11:32 am #
That actually comes up in the thread. I think people brought it up last time we talked about diamonds on this site as well. I didn’t know they were cut and polished here as well. I thought it was something you needed the small agile hands of a 5 year old indian boy to do.
by ramanan on July 11 2006, 11:49 am #
kathleen’s rock came with a certificate showing when and where it was mined, cut, and polished, and has a serial number laser-engraved on it so it can be easily traced.
i suppose one could argue that there are/were native canadians (the dene nation, for the most part) that are being affected and exploited by the canadian diamond industry, although i’m sure there are many natives who are getting quite wealthy off of them as well. imagine being chief in a small hunting village on the tundra of NWT and having some geologist tell you that your town is built on diamonds? maybe you’d get some clean drinking water!
unfortunately i wasn’t able to visit yellowknife when i was up north last month, but i hear it’s quite the boom town these days as a result of the burgeoning canadian diamond industry and the skyrocketing price of gold.
by Matthew on July 11 2006, 12:17 pm #