Talk:Diamonds as an investment

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The article needs to discuss the overpricing of diamonds through DeBeer's controlling of the diamond market and creating an artificial shortage. Rmhermen 19:40, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

See http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198202/diamond for reference. 2006-11-21

This article needs to be referenced and cleaned up to reflect the encyclopedic nature of wikipedia. SauliH 08:13, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

This article sounds to have a lot of original research and is presented like an essay, not an encyclopedic article. Momo Hemo 10:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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Aber has now bought 100% of the Harry Winston Inc. chain and is no longer a diamond mining venture alone, but rather a hybrid mine-retailer. The anticipated mine life of the currently producing pipes is not that long, and development of other target pipes on the property into actual mines is perhaps uncertain (see their website) so that unless they acquire other diamond mining properties they may end up eventually migrating into being primarily a retailer.
In fact, when discussing investment in diamonds, I would like to see the article expanded to cover what might be called "wider diamond industry investments" with more information on investments sectors beyond polished stones and mines....for example, retailers, equipment manufacturers, and service providers.
There are a few English language academic sources on diamonds as investment that I will try to dig out and post as references but if anyone has sources ready at hand don't wait for me. FurnaldHall 11:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
"I would like to see the article expanded to cover what might be called "wider diamond industry investments"" Good idea nirvana2013 10:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dispute tag

Hi, I am not involved with editing this topic, but am just stopping in as a wandering admin. I see that this article has been tagged as disputed for over a year, but there doesn't seem to be any active discussion on it. Has this been resolved yet? If not, I recommend either moving forward on resolving the dispute, deleting the disputed information, or else just removing the tag. --Elonka 23:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC) I don't think that anyone within the diamond mining industry will make alterations to any document which mentions Debeers. They are a very powerfull entity and those within the industry have to respect that fact. Power is everything in the diamond mining industry.(Miningspecialist (talk) 18:00, 13 March 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Diamond prices as a reference

Hi,

I thought I would ask here first, have a look at this site as a reference for current online diamond prices. I think it could be relevant for this article since it shows the market trends with all the diamond criterion available and allow a good overview of diamond investments at particular times (besides that is has a professional information section). Anyway, have a look and if you think it is decent http//wwww.gemisimo.com/ This site was blacklisted by wiki about a year ago but it has improved and it would be great to get an opinion of fellow wikipedians --Davidoff (talk) 12:33, 8 June 2008 (UTC)