SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Gold/Mining/Energy : GBDX - Global Diamond Exchange, Inc.
GBDX 0.00Oct 28 4:00 PM EDT

 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (20)6/29/2007 12:57:23 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant  Read Replies (1) of 36
 
SG, By the way I may be wrong. However I see what appears to be a pattern by the Russians to consolidate control of export of their base metals and commodities.

Look at Gazprom beating down BP on the Siberian Oil Field and now they are after ExxonMobil for operatorship and control of gas exports from the Sakhalin Project.

My hunch says that Sib Almaz is trying to do the same thing in diamonds exports, especially since Putin in February authorized export of uncut as well as cut diamonds (expanded the export market).

The cut diamond trade (per last year's Russian figures) was US $70 billion. So that GBDX export license has some value above the current stock price to Sib Almaz....
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext