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To: Peter Bourgeois who wrote (2167)11/6/1998 10:46:00 AM
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Hello Peter and Jimmy

Thank you

One parting thought on that posted article. Based on all the reading I have been doing on diamond cutting, etc., if the 99 carrat stone has a number of visible fractures, those more than likely existed prior to processing. The fact that the stone had been freshly split simply suggests to me that it parted along one of those preexisting inclusions. Simply stated, diamonds that have been cleaved or split along their cleavage c axis will cleave along that axis and only cleave else where if their is an inclusion to take the split in another direction. In short, the stone would have had to have been cleaved along those inclusions anyway to be broken up into unincluded stones for cutting. No value has likely been lost, as none existed.

Regards
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