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To: Goalie who wrote (2164)	11/6/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: BozkurtD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7235

Hello Goalie, I talked to Kim Freeman today and among other things we also have discussed the fractured diamond. exchange2000.com He mentioned that this particular diamond has been analyzed and they are 95% sure that it was a geological fracture. (As Vaughn suspected earlier). Also the fracture plain was on the outside. He explained to me in detail how the crushing system works. In reality, most of the times the stones are not cubical or spherical but rather elongated (three dimensional) rectangular shaped. Because of the way the crusher is designed when the stones go through, what counts is the smallest two dimensions of the stone. As an example he said, a stone DeBeers recovered in Botswana in early 1990's was 426 carat and its dimensions were 17X20X74 mm. Even that stone, since the smallest dimensions are 17X20 mm, would have passed through the 25mm gap. He also mentioned that the incidents of big stones are being monitored very closely. Regards, Bozkurt