英语听力：自然百科 国家地理：钻石：黑暗的一面—21
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Drilling almost a kilometer down into the earth’s crust, the rocks they brought to the surface have been lying undisturbed for some 3 billion years. The cores were boxed and sent back to Canada for analysis. It took 3 months to get the results. Sure enough, 7 of 15 samples contain diamonds. They showed that one of the newly discovered comb-lined pipes was enormous.
This is the biggest pipe I ever discovered
Once again the
prospective2 made a huge finding in Canada hit another mother load in Africa.
A commercial mine could be worth millions earning huge revenues for the Angolan government and for himself. But he doesn’t need the money.
I am a diamond hunter. It is
addictive3. I hope I don’t have to go into rehab but ahaha….
For others, the search for diamonds is a desperate and dangerous bid to escape poverty and tyranny. In 2006 the discovery in Zimbabwean Marange region sparked a new diamond rush. Thousands of people in the economically ruined country left their jobs to
prospect1 of diamonds. Desperate to control this mineral wealth, Robert Mugabe’s regime declared independent mining illegal. Zimbabwean diamonds began to flood the market in Antwerp. Once again it wasn’t the traders or buyers who suffered.
In 2008 government soldiers opened fire on diggers in Marange. More than 200 people were killed. Thousands of others were arrested and bitten. Its Zimbabwean diamonds didn’t lose their sparkle on the world market.
War is opportunity the places where you can make some profits. It’s places that like where there is conflict.
Diamond trade claims the 99% of stones on the world market for what it turns to conflict free sources. But conflict free doesn’t always mean trouble free. Marketed as a token of love and beauty, diamonds continue to exert their
allure4. But this brilliant most
coveted5 stone can also represent all that is dark and ugly.
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