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Gold/Mining/Energy : Precious and Base Metal Investing

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To: jrhana who wrote (13635)7/8/2003 9:56:42 PM
From: jrhana  Read Replies (2) of 39344
 
Here is the exact Quote:

<As Debeers had long known, and as the Russians were quickly learning, a gold mine was worth millions. But a diamond mine was worth billions. Finding one was the greatest treasure of all time.>
from
Fire Into Ice
Charles Fipke amd the Great Diamond Hunt
by Vernon Frolick

whom I gather must have been on cocaine when he wrote the above

Actually that plus Barren Lands have been among the most exciting and interesting books I have ever read
Thanks to Letmebe Frank

Message 19020999

Diamond mines are very hard to find but extremely valuable once found
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