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Texas High Court Agrees To Rehear Exxon Case

Texas Supreme Court Grants Rehearing In Case Alleging Exxon Mobil Sabotaged Abandoned Wells (AP) DALLAS (AP) - The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over...

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Rare Monroe County Diamond One of North America’s Largest

Updated Friday, November 20, 2009 ; 04:49 PM A 34.46 carat diamond found in 1928 was sold at Sotheby's in 1984. One of the largest diamonds ever found in North America was unearthed in Peterstown during a game of horseshoes in...

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Saad Group sells 19% stake in Petra Diamonds

Saad Group has agreed to sell a 19 percent stake in Petra Diamonds Limited, a UK-based mining company focusing on diamond resources, for $100 million in a private placement, SPA reported. Saad Group is a Saudi Arabia-based...

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Botswana: DTC Sales Improve, But Still Far From Normal

The just ended sight at the Diamond Trading Company Botswana, though still a long way from normal levels, saw a favourable improvement in sales when compared to the same period last year when virtually no diamonds were sold

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An Environmentalist in Favor of More Consumption

Would the world be better if people consumed less? In his new book, Treasures of the Earth, University of Vermont professor Saleem Ali says no. He argues that disavowing consumption of oil, gems, precious metals, and minerals...

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The hidden diamond market

Vast quantities of diamonds have been hoarded to drive the priced of diamonds up for many years. What they don't know is that a little known researcher has recently discovered a way to grow diamonds of any color, hardness 10,...

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Dolat Ventures Inc. to Acquire 100% of Dove Diamonds & Mining

New Operation Plans to Import and Wholesale Rough Diamonds and Gems NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Dolat Ventures Inc. announced today that it intends to acquire 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Dove Diamonds and Mining,...

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Emerald Mine Experiences Roof Fall (PR Newswire)

Emerald Coal Resources, LP, an affiliate of Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. , said that its Emerald longwall mine near Waynesburg, Pa. experienced a roof fall Wednesday that disabled its main conveyor line and shut down coal...

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Hey, diamonds say, we want to be money too, like gold!

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2009-11-21 02:46. De Beers and others in the diamond industry are exploring how to create a viable market for diamond investment. On November 17 the World Federation of Diamond Bourses endorsed a...

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Introducing Gestalt 1.0 and the Gestalt Widget Pack

A few months ago, we released Gestalt beta as a MIX Online lab. Gestalt began as an exploration—a way to bring Ruby and Python to the web browser. Today, we’re delighted to announce that Gestalt has been updated to version 1.0....

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