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		<title>Follow that Diamond!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Are Diamonds Forever?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 213px"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6034429.stm"><img title="Lesotho diamond" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42179000/jpg/_42179341_diamond_203ap.jpg" alt="Lesothos 2006 diamond" width="203" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Lesotho&#39;s 2006 diamond</p></div>
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		<title>If you wanna know what happened to that huge Lesotho diamond&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the Dubai Hosts Historic Diamond Unveiling article. That&#8217;s where it was publicly viewed for the first time. I wonder how the money for its purchase is split up. Split up by who and for whom? Anyone know?
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		<title>So, why is Lesotho&#8217;s economy in a rut?</title>
		<link>http://basotho.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/so-why-is-lesothos-economy-in-a-rut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Miners in the Southern African kingdom of Lesotho have found one of the world&#8217;s largest diamonds, a near-flawless white gem weighing nearly 500 carats, mining group Gem Diamonds said on Sunday.
 
The diamond was discovered in the Letseng Mine on September 8, the company said in a statement. It has been analysed by experts in Antwerp [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basotho.wordpress.com&blog=3689325&post=689&subd=basotho&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;<big>Miners in the Southern African kingdom of Lesotho have found one of the world&#8217;s largest diamonds, a near-flawless white gem weighing nearly 500 carats, mining group Gem Diamonds said on Sunday.</big></p>
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<p>The diamond was discovered in the Letseng Mine on September 8, the company said in a statement. It has been analysed by experts in Antwerp and found to weigh 478 carats, with very few inclusions and of outstanding colour and clarity.</p>
<p>&#8220;It has the potential to yield one of the largest flawless D colour round polished diamonds in history,&#8221; the company said.&#8221;<br />
[<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-09-21-lesotho-mine-yields-one-of-worlds-largest-diamonds" target="_blank">continue</a>...]</p>
<p>Identificateurs Technorati : <a class="performancingtags" rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Lesotho">Lesotho</a>, <a class="performancingtags" rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Diamonds in Lesotho">Diamonds in Lesotho</a>, <a class="performancingtags" rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Poverty in Lesotho">Poverty in Lesotho</a></p>
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