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To: TobagoJack who wrote (38017)	9/9/2003 1:07:16 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, those man-made diamonds will be great in Jedi light sabre cyberphone chips. They'd look sporty on the outside too. The price of diamonds in the bazaar will look bizarre to the De Beers who will be crying in De Stella Artois Beers in Anterpen. Heck, I'd be tempted to get a gold encased CDMA2000 cyberphone with diamond crust. Apparently diamonds in the right form would be good for chips. But the price and production has been a problem. The new gas deposition technology apparently brings the price right down to industrial prices. The gem merchants are sweating - trying to assert that 'real' diamonds are the only ones to buy. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (38017)	9/9/2003 7:24:25 AM
From: que seria	Respond to of 74559

Yes! I've been concerned on both counts, and it kept me out of the early stage runs in some diamond stocks. I changed my mind a while back about at least the speculative worth of diamond stocks because: 1. Man-made stones don't appear to be making inroads on demand for the "real thing"--i.e., the naturally formed rocks. In fact, unless what I read is flat wrong, supply has diminished and prices have risen as the economy has floundered. I don't see why the natural stones should be preferred, but it's all sentiment and consumers call it. It seems the non-paying end users smile upon what is natural and expensive, and frown upon expressions of love based just upon carbon formation and appearance. I'm going with end user sentiment here even though if I were some bejeweled rapper, I'd never pay the earth mantle premium. 2. Spent-out consumers definitely worry me--more than man-made stones. I'll be exiting after I see signs that the consumer pulls back much on spending. But there's the offsetting role of diamonds being perceived as stores of value that will hold up or rise in inflationary times. I'm not confident how long it will be before we see currency inflation of a level that affects the CPI or other price indices in ways even gov't stats can't obscure.