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Gold/Mining/Energy : SOUTHERNERA (t.SUF) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nempela who wrote (1470)	6/8/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: GULL	Respond to of 7235

SUF naturally screened the buyers of all the diamonds they have sold to date from Klipspringer and Angola.

To: nempela who wrote (1470)	6/8/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: INFOMAN	Respond to of 7235

Let us check the rationale behind your posting. No-one denies that India, Pakistan, China, Malaysia, Brazil, Argentina and many other countries around the world (including Africa) are unfortunately involved to a lesser or greater degree in the use of child labour.This ranges across the whole spectrum of manufactured goods such as carpets, textiles, sports- clothing to the processing of gemstones.There is a UN charter which is dealing with this problem and I wish them every success in eradicating this problem. Do you state without exception that not one diamond mined by SUF in Africa or Canada has not been processed by any of the countries mentioned above?That they have only been cut and polished by SUF itself?How ridiculous to be as naive as this. If diamonds sold by SUF or DB are either resold or exchanged by other third parties after the initial purchase, then where does the responsibility lie?Surely with the host countries.Would you expect that every diamond sold should be personally chaperoned to the final end product regardless of how many intermediaries are involved? If you are so smart as you purport yourself to be, then I have no doubt that you will quickly answer to the questions presented to yourself. I would suggest that you put this effort into trying to resuscitate the ailing share price.Once you have achieved this, then you can devote the rest of your energy into tracking down every errant diamond mined by SUF in the sweatshops around the globe. Give me Vaughn any day, rather than a third rate Spin Doctor like yourself.