Rising curiosity around the globe for laboratory-grown diamonds poses each threats and alternatives for African economies that depend upon their very own pure gems.
Increasingly jewelry lovers are shunning pure diamonds due to human rights abuses within the mining business and considerations that the sale of so-called ‘blood diamonds’ continues to fund insurgencies in nations such because the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo.
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