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Articles in December, 2006 issue of Israel Diamonds

• Polished exports: Israeli polished exports bounce back.(SUMMING UP)
• Most Venezuelan diamonds smuggled, report alleges.(FACETS)
• Liberian president appoints diamond task force.(FACETS)
• Arkansas park yields 5.47-carat canary diamond.(SHORT cuts)
• SouthernEra to focus on Congo and Ontario.(FACETS)
• South African diamond export levy closer to approval.(FACETS)
• Israeli leader reiterates commitment to Kimberley Process.(FACETS)
• 603-carat diamond sells for $12.4 million.(SHORT cuts)
• Rough exports.(SUMMING UP)
• U.S. retail jewelers sales growth down in 2005.(FACETS)
• Mining companies report on sales and profits.(FACETS)
• GIA presents industry with dilemma: if and how to grade synthetics: GIA says it plans to grade synthetic diamonds. The industry, while not opposed, wants strict guidelines to be agreed upon.
• 20-carat plus diamonds found in South Africa.(FACETS)
• De Beers gets license for new South African mine.(FACETS)
• Kimberley Process puts Ghana under the spotlight.(FACETS)
• Z machine melts diamond to puddle.(SHORT cuts)
• Polished imports.(SUMMING UP)
• DTC ending marketing support in five countries.(FACETS)
• GIA says it will begin grading synthetics from January.(FACETS)
• Rough times: a new trend or just a blip?
• Viewpoint.
  by Arikha, Itzchak
• Rough imports.(SUMMING UP)
• Compensation deal approved for South African tribe.(FACETS)
• Diamdel announces January opening for CPO in Israel.(FACETS)
• Is EC's ruling on Alrosa-De Beers really the end of the road? The European Commission's ruling in February this year that Alrosa's rough diamond sales to De Beers breached anti-monopoly regulations seemed to be the end of the issue. Surely the diamond min
• Stornoway completing takeover of Ashton, Contact.(FACETS)
• Diavik produced 2.83 million carats in third quarter.(FACETS)
• Fourth Kimberly Process plenary held in Botswana.(FACETS)
• Blood Diamond director denies news report.(SHORT cuts)
• Journey to the center or the Ideal Cut's 'sweet spot': in the first of two articles, gemologist and research engineer Michael Cowing of the ACA Gem Lab investigates the 'sweet spot' of the Ideal Cut diamond to illustrate the best areas for cutting angles
  by Cowing, Michael
• Indian companies establish rough buying consortium.(FACETS)
• WFDB president calls for common nomenclature for synthetics.(FACETS)
• In debt, but not in trouble: debt is a way of life for the majority of companies in the Israeli diamond industry. Unlike other centers, such as Antwerp, however, the situation remains largely stable with no great increases in indebtedness this year. Altho
• H. Stern purchases stake in Israeli duty-free stores.(SHORT cuts)
• Asscher cut: then & now: "what's in a name?" Shakespeare, as usual, said it best and first. What, indeed, is in a name, especially a name with historic provenance, but one that has been bandied about so much that it has lost virtually its ow
• Blue Nile sales $53 million in third quarter.(FACETS)
• Botswana nervous about movie's impact on economy.(FACETS)
• New diamond cut aspires to aesthetic perfection.
• G. Robert Crowningshield, GIA founder, dies at age 87.(SHORT cuts)(Obituary)
• Israelis provide support for beneficiation in Africa.
• 'Organized' diamond rush underway in Zimbabwe.(FACETS)
• Nearly half of survey respondents plan to see 'Blood Diamond'.(FACETS)
• Shekel's rise against dollar: a blow to diamond industry.
• Jwaneng mine to move underground.(SHORT cuts)