Figuratively speaking, I don’t think any diamonds are conflict free.
(Note: my wife’s engagement ring is an aquamarine.)
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Figuratively speaking, I don’t think any diamonds are conflict free.
(Note: my wife’s engagement ring is an aquamarine.)
I skipped the stone altogether, but I just hope the gold for my wedding ring didn’t come from Lihir in Papua New Guinea. That place has filthy mining practices. The tailings get dumped a few hundred feet offshore so you can’t even swim there.
There are 100% guaranteed conflict-free diamonds….lab-created. Though white are incredibly rare, colored are readily available. Lab diamonds are optically, chemically and physically identical to their mined counterparts, but are not marked by the severe social and environmental impact.
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I’m hip. Amy & I were looking at artificially created diamonds back when I proposed (2005), but they were still outside the consumer realm, I think.
But I stand by my original point; the diamond is ALWAYS a source of conflict.