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500-carat diamond - What would you do with this?
cbs47 ^
| 9-29-09
| cakid
Posted on 09/29/2009 2:43:07 PM PDT by cakid1
This is one big diamond.
This thing is the size of a chicken egg.
It was discovered in South Africa.
The 507.55-carat gem reportedly has "exceptional color and clarity."
No value has been give yet for the
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KEYWORDS: diamond
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To: cakid1
You'd be sure to meet new and interesting people!
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
09/29/2009 2:56:26 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
To: cakid1
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posted on
09/29/2009 2:57:09 PM PDT
by
Electric Graffiti
(Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
To: buccaneer81
Before I realized that those were characters from Diamonds Are Forever I thought the guy in the upper right looked like David Crosby.
To: buccaneer81
“Curious, how everyone who touches those diamonds seems to... die.”
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posted on
09/29/2009 2:59:15 PM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: cakid1
Cut it up into a hundred 5-carat diamonds and sell them off.
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posted on
09/29/2009 2:59:29 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: La Lydia
I was being intentionally absurd. ;)
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:00:17 PM PDT
by
RobRoy
(The US today: Revelation 18:4)
To: cakid1
I’d give it to the imperial federal government to help pay my fair share of the debt and to help those who won’t help themselves..
ok, I lied..I’d sell it, pocket the cash and send y’all postcards from whatever beach I was sittin on at the time..
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:01:26 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
To: La Lydia
How many buyers do you think there are for a single 500 carat diamond? It could take 40 years to get your asking price...if ever.
But chop it up, and you can get your asking price much more easily.
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:02:01 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: cakid1
I’d sell it in a skinny minute.
Imagine how many alpacas I could buy with the proceeds!
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:02:21 PM PDT
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
To: Artemis Webb
Here is Putter Smith today...
To: abb
“He was taken ill...bitten by the bug.”
To: RobRoy
Most of the time I am unintentionally absurd. ;)
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But diamonds are a girl's best friend...
But square cut or pear shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape, Diamonds are a girl's best friend
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:03:29 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: cakid1
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:05:10 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(Man the pitchforks and torches.......let the revolution begin)
To: DallasDeb
Depending on what the engineers & cutters decide to do with it, probably ~300ct.
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:05:31 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.)
To: buccaneer81; fieldmarshaldj
..but remember what Ian Fleming wrote in 1955.
"Forever ?....And the eyes of the man who was Blood Group F [Wint] spoke to him and said "Mister. Nothing is Forever, Only death is permanent. Nothing is forever except what you did to me."
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:05:34 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: cakid1
I would probably lose it.
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:14:25 PM PDT
by
frithguild
(Can I drill your head now?)
To: Artemis Webb
AW -
Your logic is a lot like saying land should have no value as there is so much of it Not really. Diamonds are one of the most common minerals on the planet. Diamond prices are artificially high.
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:15:12 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.)
To: Artemis Webb
Your logic is a lot like saying land should have no value as there is so much of it.The law of supply and demand controls both.
Where land is plentiful and easy to buy, it is cheap. Where access is tightly controlled, it is expensive.
Access to diamonds is tightly controlled so as to purposefully inflate the price. IMO, anyone who pays this artificially inflated price is a sap.
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:15:52 PM PDT
by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
To: mamelukesabre
No so. There are lots of buyers out there, but they don't want little bitty -- they want huge ones. Ask Mr. Winston or Mr. Cartier. The Arabs are buying them up as fast as they can. They are portable wealth, easier to move around than gold. A couple of times a year I stroll through the Smithsonian Natural History museum and look at the Hope diamond. It is stunning. Take a look at the Queen's diamond chandelier earrings. Note they are shown actual size:
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery/object.asp?exhibition=RT2&object=200171&row=12
And check out these suckers. They originally belonged to George III.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470063/Camilla-dazzles-60th--Queens-diamonds.html
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posted on
09/29/2009 3:17:04 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
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