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What Determines the Value of a Diamond?
Diamonds are commonly judged by the four Cs: carat, clarity, color, and cut.

Carat
The carat weight measures the mass of a diamond. One carat is defined as exactly 200 milligrams (about 0.007 ounce). The point unit — equal to one one-hundredth of a carat (0.01 carat, or 2 mg) — is commonly used for diamonds of less than one carat. All else being equal, the value of a diamond increases exponentially in relation to carat weight, since larger diamonds are both rarer and more desirable for use as gemstones.

Clarity
Clarity is a measure of internal defects of a diamond called inclusions. Inclusions may be crystals of a foreign material or another diamond crystal, or structural imperfections such as tiny cracks that can appear whitish or cloudy. The number, size, color, relative location, orientation, and visibility of inclusions can all affect the relative clarity of a diamond.

Color
Diamonds occur in a variety of transparent hues — colorless, white, steel, blue, yellow, orange, red, green, pink, brown — or colored black. Diamonds with a detectable hue to them are known as colored diamonds. Colored diamonds contain impurities or structural defects that cause the coloration, while pure or nearly pure diamonds are transparent and colorless.

Cut
The most important aspect about how bright a diamond is going to be, is how well it is cut. We don't mean its shape but instead how exacting, to perfect proportions the stone is cut. If a diamond is not cut to extremely precise specifications it will "leak" light out the bottom. It will also let too much light in from the bottom so that you see what is under the stone. In almost all cases this "Windowing" is very undesirable, and does not show up in a well cut diamond

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CIA - The World Factbook -- Sierra Leone
...conventional long form: Republic of Sierra Leone conventional short form: Sierra Leone ... Alluvial diamond mining remains the major source of...
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sl.html

Conflict Diamonds
12/20/2001 U.N. Extends Ban on Sierra Leone Rough Diamond Imports RapNews...
http://www.diamonds.net/conflictdiamonds/

Diamonds in Conflict - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
But since then, further diamond-related conflicts have raged in Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo . This page...
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/diamond/

Sierra Leone Travel and Tourism Information
Leone, "may currently sustain a valuation of over 0m". Africa Diamond Corporation is ... (full story) IMF frees up funds to Sierra Leone...
http://www.visitsierraleone.org/

Conflict Diamonds
Diamond Talks Underway (AllAfrica) World Diamond ... Coalition News and Events Go to the Sierra Leone Research page View Sierra Leone Photo Album...
http://www.phrusa.org/campaigns/sierra_leone/conflict_diamonds.html

XGuitar.com : King Diamond tabs
King Diamond guitar tabs by album...
http://www.xguitar.com/guitar-tabs/king_diamond/

Sierra Leone - Global Issues
Sierra Leone - Another African Diamond War By Mark S. Watson
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/SierraLeone.asp

Conflict diamonds
...against UNITA in Angola and the Sierra Leone rebels, including a ban on their main source of funding -- illicit diamonds. Diamond sanctions...
http://www.un.org/peace/africa/Diamond.html

CNN.com - Sierra Leone diamond certification wins U.N. approval -...
Sierra Leone diamond certification wins U.N. approval...
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/08/09/un.sierraleone.ap/index.html

Strategic Plan for Transparency in African Diamond Trade
The Diamond High Council (HRD) is the official representative of the Belgian diamond industry Hoveniersstraat 22, B-2018 Antwerp - Tel.
http://www.conflictdiamonds.com/

The Heart of the Matter: Sierra Leone, Diamonds and Human Security -...
The Star of Sierra Leone, a magnificent 969-carat diamond, was discovered in the Koidu area. By 1937 Sierra Leone was mining one million carats...
http://www.sierra-leone.org/heartmatter.html

Sierra Leone: Diamonds and War
The Diamond Industry and De Beers ... Until the 1980s, De Beers was directly involved in Sierra Leone, had concessions to mine diamonds...
http://www.africapolicy.org/docs00/sl0001.htm

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Cream Receives Report from Independent Geophysical Contractors on
...to have a grade of 0.5 carats per cu meter (Hall, P.K., Bulletin 5, The Diamond Fields of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Geological Survey).
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050906/65224.html?.v=1

Sierra Leone’s diamond wars
Once it arrives there from Sierra Leone, a diamond automatically becomes "Liberian".
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/06/02sierraleone