Grlygrl201@aol.com wrote:
> these stones are guaranteed mined in canada. i don't know that debeers can
> guarantee that none of their stones are smuggled from siera leone, even by
> employing an imprint.
Isotopic abundancies fingerprint. It's a bitch to check, but essentially
impossible to forge (though you can synthesize such diamonds at a large
price premium (thus removing the incentive), they'd fail other fingerprint
checking).
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