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