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Gold/Mining/Energy : Canadian Diamond Play Cafi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (1255)	9/1/2003 12:04:01 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16206

Magnetic Ion filter. I like it. a.)how do we get ions.. vaporization I take it.. then the filter.. a semipermeable membrane with a 1 million gauss magnet behind it? What form would it take? The garage ion carbon vapour with argon or other intert gas method actually works. It makes ragged greenish black layers of diamond by the metastability method described. DeBeers has some patents in this field for diamond films. As well we see some micro diamonds for industrial usage, i.e. chip bonding made this way. With some modifications and we think, pressure applied, one can get some sort of octo or dodecahedrons growing -- I believe the Russian follow this process in part. Gem quality, so far, has eluded the manufacturers it is said. The industrial pressure grown diamonds made in Russia are very good octahedrons. I guess they could pass for Gem quality, as their crystal structure is very good, such that their resistance to shock and wear is superior. I don't know their seed. The pressure-made GE North American industrials are borazon mitride and blackish. Their form is somewhat inferior to the Russian industrials, the latter of which are preferred for drilling diamonds by a wide margins, but their expense is greater. The French abrasives company Diamet has a superior grade silver drill bit which uses exclusively Russian industrials but it is pricey. Drills a lot of feet. The improvement in drill footage since 1970 in Canada has been some major with the usage of the improved foreign-diamond bits. EC<:-}

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (1255)	9/6/2003 7:24:22 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16206

I read parts of the Wired article. The quotes on the net were "slightly" innacurate. Wired is the Popular Science of Tech magazine. Everything whizbang and lab futuristic, and nothing every materializes from their projections. We will be waiting for the first Popular Science air car, futuristic atomic monorail, propellor beanie vertical lift off office worker 2000 years from now. Ditto Wired and its nano-techno blather, sans doot. In fact quotes from Gem experts or jewelers stated that that these diamonds, while spectacular looking, could be detected as artificials "right away". If several gemologists independently made that claim, they had better be able to back it up. The gems they did show were deep yellow and not 58 point faceted. In fact they were slighly odd shapped crystals for diamond. I don't mean badly shapened, but not common. They were grown, or with the final shape in mind it would seem. Whatever the abilities of the gem makers, whom I have heard about for the past 8 or so years with varying degrees of abilities to grow gem diamonds, the marketing technique these Floridans are employing is not guaranteed to make them a paying market. People do not want to pay 50 dollars for a diamond. They do not want to pay 500 dollars for a diamond. They want something valuable, not merely pretty. Mines mine stones for 25 dollars or less a carat. It's dirt cheap by the boatload. Hard to beat in a furnace factory. The cutting, which everyone has to do, is expensive. The marketing takes a monster company with billion dollar clout. Birks, DeBeers etc.. And anyone who buys "cut" off the CSO, has a gas-tight marketing agreement with them. Buy off us exclusive, or get your diamonds from the air. This is the nut you have to crack. Merely having a product that is twice to 10 times the cost of the raw earth diamond, while initially fascinating, does not in the end do anything for you. EC<:-}