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Gold/Mining/Energy : Kensington Resources Ltd. (V.KRT) * Diamond in the rough!

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To: Bozena Radvenis who wrote (567)10/23/1997 10:40:00 PM
From: Richard A. Boulay  Read Replies (1) of 5206
 
Article - interesting but misleading

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Whoa!!!! A good case of stating an opinion and then surrounding it
with irrelevant facts to confuse the reader - not that I think its
intentional.

Here's a fact
DeBeer's revenues and profits have been rising merrily for 10 years,
no end int sight.

My opinion. There is a shortage of diamonds in the one to six carat
range not a glut. If there really was a glut don't you think the
constant stream of DeBeer's TV commercials would highlight one and
two carat stones (cut from two to four carat rough) rather than the
earrings and "anniversary bands" stuffed with tiny stones.

The shortage of rough products in the plus one carat range is actually
keeping prices down since the lack of product prevent the launch of the massive marketing campaigns needed to penetrate the ultra large
markets like India and coastal China, similar to the initial penetration of the Japanese market twenty five years ago.

Diamond economics are like mineral water economics, they are different
from most commodities and the obvious does not always apply
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