Rough Diamond Buying in Sierra Leone and Mozambique in One Book. Two Books in One!

***NEW EXPANDED EDITION FOR 2012***
Lets Buy Rough Diamonds in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Revised and updated with actual legitimate prices for 2012, scammer prices, export sales and information, Myths and Misconceptions you will be told and the two largest exporters in the country.
A 13.14 ct Fancy Blue diamond. It was purchased for $50,000 and valued at $620,000.What if you had been there buying when this came around? Maybe you could have bought it and made the fortune the other man did?
Gregg Lyell gems4u@rocketmail.com http://www.greggsgemhouse.com +240-550-7803
SUBJECTS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Introduction to this new revised and expanded version and Book Disclaimer. The colors of the diamonds we/you will want. Here is the clarity grading and what we/you will want. Using The Rapaport Diamond Price List for rough diamonds. Flat Diamond and Mackle Information and why to buy when you can. Jo Di Diamond Gauge and Spread Gauge for use with getting the inside diamond size. Rapaport Diamond Price List for May 2009. How we/you will buy the diamonds now that we know what we want. Gem tools/Licenses needed to buy rough diamonds with photos of Diamond Dealers license for 2009-2010 and Resident Visa to show I am a legal resident of the country. 10. Basic tools for buying rough and polished diamonds. 11. Let the games begin and how to play it with an example of the buying conversation. 12. The list of diamonds we looked at in July 2009 in Kenema. 13. Blood Diamonds: The Conflict in Sierra Leone. 14. Brief Description of Stone (Diamond) shapes. 15. Adtec lists for 3 carat and 9 carat rough. 16. Actual buying prices from May 2009 in Kenema. 17. Scammers Price List Sierra Leone Diamond Exports 2008. 18. Top two exporters of diamonds in Sierra Leone 2008. 19. BONUS BOOK. To All That Want to Buy Diamonds in Sierra Leone. (Reprint of one book I wrote). 20. The authors background. 21. Photos of large diamonds from Sierra Leone. 22. Disclaimer on earnings and final word. 23. Myths, Misrepresentations and outright lies about diamonds in Sierra Leone. 24. Book Disclaimer
4000 Carats in 2006
(2200 carats of Industrial and 1800 of gem quality.) These belonged to Alhaji Mohammed Shuman a very good friend and fellow diamond dealer in Bo, Sierra Leone.
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Begin with another's to end with your own. Baltasar Gracian
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This small book will show you a few of the diamonds that we have bought and mined in Sierra Leone over the last couple of years. We will also show you some that were bought by others such as the one on the cover. The one on the cover was certified as Pastel Blue in Belgium and sold for a couple of million we heard. The man that bought it did so from some miner that did not know what he had and gave him $50,000 for it. This version of the book does not have all the country information that the longer one does and it is not as expensive either. This is simply a short version of how to buy the diamonds in Sierra Leone and what the true prices are and not the bullshit you see on the internet. That is nothing compared to what it is worth but to the miner it was 150,000,000 Leones and that is more then he will ever see in life again and more than 99.9999% of the people in the country ever see. I believe the average income is $300 a year or 900,000 Leones, so you can see the man was extremely happy. I was told the government was going to make the buyer pay the man more money but you know how that goes in those countries. The man paid his legal duties and took the diamond out of the country so there is nothing the government can do after that. You may say the buyer cheated the miner but it is a case of being in the right place at the right time, pure and simple. I will always think he cheated the man but that is my opinion. The miners do make a lot there as it is and many of the miners hardly make any money at all as many people will take advantage of them and that includes the locals that buy as well. Having said that I am a firm believer that you should know any business you enter into and if you are a miner then you should learn the value of what you are mining. The government there is trying to educate the miners and the US Department of State is trying as well but all they are really doing is causing problems and confusion. The reason I say that is that rough or polished diamonds have no set value, like gold does. It goes for whatever you can get for it. They have a price structure in Sierra Leone that they have used for years and that is what they go on. You can bring all the price lists in the world there and you may as well wipe your ass with them as they are useless. When it comes to rough diamond price lists I have been there and done that and have the T-Shirt to prove it. I came to Sierra Leone in 1996 with the Michelson Rough Diamond Price (Sofus MichelsonNew York) list and was almost laughed out of town. Using it you would either pay too much or offer to little to do any business. That 1996 list was of some use about three years later as prices caught up to it somewhat. I have had people give me the ADTEC Diamond Price List from South Africa. It is very pretty and has good illustration of the diamond shapes but you may as well use it for the above mentioned toilet paper. They must get their prices from the far side of the moon also. Totally unrealistic prices and you will pay far too much if you buy with it. Actually the locals will love you to buy with it as it is payday when they sell to you. One thing about the ADTEC Price List is that some local con men try to have you pay a percentage under their prices and they know you will feel like you are getting a deal by buying under the list by $20%, for an example. The catch here is that the prices are so high that you will save nothing even though you think you are doing so. If anyone ever asks you what you want to pay under the ADTEC list you tell them 4
75%. That will shut them up as they will not make any money at all and all of a sudden the diamond is gone and nowhere to be found. Some mysterious buyer bought it and if you wait for a few days another will come along and other bullshit and lies. If you buy in Sierra Leone there are only two lists to use and you need to have some idea of what is inside the diamond. The first list is the Rapaport Diamond Sheet. This gives you the selling prices of POLISHED diamonds. The second list is the not a list but what the locals are selling the diamonds for and have been selling them for since the diamonds were found 70 years ago. The funny thing about their list is that if you ask them how they get the prices they cannot tell you. They will tell it has always been that way. Even if you ask the Lebanese dealers how they get the prices they cannot tell you. It is something that has been there forever and you need to learn how to deal with it. Now you may ask what a list on polished diamonds has to do with the rough diamonds. Well it is simple in theory but not quite so easy in practice. I will give you the short answer to this question. All the rough diamonds come in many shapes and there are over 17,000 qualities of rough diamonds. However when all I said and done we are only interested in about 10-13 of them. Since we buy only certain colors and clarities we have removed the vast majority. Here is what we look for when we buy the rough. We want only the top qualities or very near to the top. So we want the following colors. First let me tell you the colors so you will know what I am talking about.
COLOR GRADING AND WHAT WE/YOU WANT.

The colors are like this:
D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z AND FANCY COLORS.
Here is a small visual photo of how the diamonds look.
Ok. Now what we want is the diamonds in the White range which are D-I and preferably stopping at G color. Any diamonds after that starts to show yellow and we do not want yellow. We want the White grade and nothing else. So that gives us 6 colors to work with and we want to keep in the first 5 when possible.
Here is the clarity grading and what we/you will want.

Clarity grading runs from Flawless (Fl) to Included3 (I3). We want only the top 7 and preferably the top 6 grades in BOLD type.
FL, IF, VVS1,VVS2,VS1,VS2,SI1,SI2,I1,I2,I3

Here is a small visual chart to show a rough idea of what each grade looks like.
Since we are only buying the best we want from FL to SI1 and when possible only to the VS2 grade. See the arrow in the chart. Gregg Lyell gems4u@rocketmail.com http://www.greggsgemhouse.com +240-550-7803
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SUMMARY OF THE COLOR AND GRADING WE/YOU WANT.

Ok you have seen the color and clarity we want for our diamonds. We are only dealing with 13 different areas when buying our color and clarity. Of course we will pay more as we are cherry picking the diamonds of the sellers but that is ok as we are getting top dollar for our cut and polished diamonds. To make matters worse someone is educating the miners to the fact that we are cutting them when we buy that way and that is the first thing they toss at you now. I want more as you are taking them to cut and polish and make more money. My standard reply is, Fuck off, Bo and dont worry about the shit on my side of the world. Worry about your side here (By the way, Fuck off, Bo is accepted and is part of the Krio language there so they are not offended much.) What pisses them off is when they try to cheat me and act like I am a JC or Just cam (just came or a newbie). A lot of them know me and have for many years and they still try to get me. One example from my last trip there in July was when one of the dealers (read scammer and criminal) told me a one carat diamonds cost $2000! I really went off on him and told him what I think and what he can do with his diamond. That particular diamond cost no more then $450-500. The funny thing about this particular one is that they usually try to tell you the cost of the one carat diamond is $200-300. This man went to other end of the spectrum on me. Ok we want only the best and that will put us in the D-H mainly and Fl to SI1 and VS2 when possible. Not too hard and a lot easier than worrying about 17,000 grades dont you think?
USING THE RAPAPORT DIAMOND PRICE LIST

Remember the part about the lists and the Rapaport Sheet for the polished diamonds? We are now going to show you how to use the Rap sheet, as it is called and how to get the price of what diamond you will end up with after cutting and polishing. Ok, I guess it is time for a bit more of diamond shape information. The way we buy is called using the ABC diamonds method. What this means is that there are several shapes and the first three are called A, B, C. A shape is the Sawable (Octahedron or Crystal or 8 Corners in Sierra Leone), B is the Makeable diamond shape (Dodecahedron or 12 corners rather then the standard 8 corners the Octahedron has) and C is the Mackle shape-Dekka or Double Dekka as it is called in Sierra Leone. Below are the photos of the mentioned diamonds:
A Octahedron
B Dodecahedron
C Mackle
The next thing to know is that with the Octahedron will give two diamonds back, usually two of the same size or one large and one small and this is the one we look for as our first choice. Also it is the best for the Hearts and Arrows Round Brilliant cut and that is our goal. The other two shapes or B and C will give only diamond back usually but it is one larger one. You can see the corners on the octahedron and that is where they can cut if they want. The top of both sides are generally the table of the finished diamond. It is called the 50/50% mark or cutting the diamonds in half. That will give you two diamonds of approximately the same weight. However since larger diamonds bring more than smaller ones, I cut them in the 70/30% area and that is to cut it on the 70% area of the height. This is the way we would get the 3ct diamond from the 9 carat one. Cut the 9ct one on the 70% mark and you get a bit over the 3ct weight and possibly 3.15ct back. Also with the Hearts and Arrows you need to have at least 5-7% more diamonds as that cuts loses a bit more the standard Round Brilliant Cut. Gregg Lyell gems4u@rocketmail.com http://www.greggsgemhouse.com +240-550-7803
FLAT DIAMOND INFORMATION AND WHY TO BUY IT WHEN YOU CAN.
This diamond was 18 carats and we got it for $18,000 or $1000 a carat. This same diamond size in an Octahedron Shape would have cost $54,000 or $3000 a carat. When cut and polished it brought more than $56,000. Tip: Always keep an open mind and when another diamond comes along that is a very good buy that will make you a lot of money, get it. Do not be stuck in a rut and have tunnel vision on any one diamond size and color. There is one shape that is good if you want to take a chance on it and it takes a bit more work to figure the return. That is the Flat diamond (above) and the name says it all. It will look like a window pane and if it is very white (in the color range we want) and very clean (in the clarity range we/you want) then you try to buy it. Buying these types and the macles are easy. We do what is known as scaling them and do not worry about the finished diamond prices. Scaling the diamond is a way to do the Flats and the Mackle (triangles or Dekka). In the example on the 18 carat above you would take the 18 carat times $1800. We would take the weight and add $100 to it. So 18 carats x $1800 is $32,400. So as you can see we got a very good deal on that one. That happens now and then and you have to be ready to jump on them. A one carat Dekka would be scaled as $100 a carat or $100, a 2 carat at $200 a carat and so on.
There are ways to get the shape of the diamond inside it and I will tell that later..maybe. Ok I will tell you now. I usually take a tool called the Mo Gauge (or Jo di Gauge if you cannot find the Mo Gauge) and measure the thickness of the diamond. I also check the width. For an example of this see the photo on the following page. To use this method and tool you measure your rough diamond and you see where it falls on the MM areas of the book, in both width and thickness. We know a 7 carat diamond is 12 mm across the width of it and we know the depth the rough must be 7.6mm or a bit more to give us the 7 carat back. So if the measurement is that then we know it will give us a 7ct diamond and then we look it up on the rap sheet and see what it is worth and then make our offer.
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JO DI DIAMOND MM GAUGE
This one below is the Spread Gauge. You can use it by laying it on the rough and check the sizes it shows. Then you use the JO Di gauge to get the depth and you will know if you have a thick enough diamond for what you want. You see the holes and each one is the size of different diamonds. It does not go real high but to 2ct. it is good for smaller rough. You
Spread Gauge

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BACK TO THE RAPAPORT DIAMOND SHEET AND HOW TO USE IT WITH THE ROUGH DIAMONDS.
Here is a copy of the Rap sheet for May of 2009. We want to end up with a 3 carat diamond and we want to know the value. Keep in mind you will have to give a discount from this list but with the Hearts and Arrows you give about 15% whereas the regular Round Brilliant has a discount of 45-65% of the list.
So our 3ct VS2 diamond is going to bring $19,700 per carat before our 15% discount. We end up with $16,745 per carat x 3ct which gives us $50,235. This is really the only way to buy diamonds and make money with them. The main way I like to figure a very good shaped octahedron is to take the weight of the rough and divide it by 3. That will give you the size of the diamond inside. That is the secret to buying rough diamonds. IF YOU CANNOT VISUALIZE THE POLISHED DIAMOND INSIDE THE ROUGH THEN YOU ARE SCREWED AND MAY AS WELL FIND ANOTHER BUSINESS AS YOU WILL NEVER MAKE MONEY.
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Ok we have discussed the color, the clarity and the shape we want and the size we want to end up when the diamond is cut and polished. You have learned the way the look the diamonds and how to figure out what size diamond is inside the rough. We have talked about the large diamond we will get back but dont forget we will have two diamonds back and on the 9 ct rough a 3ct+ one and a 1.5ct one.
Oops!
I forgot to tell you that you lose 50% and more, of the weight when you cut a diamond of good shape. So that means you end up with a 1.5 and 3 carat ones will equal the 4.50ct diamond which is half of our original 9 carat rough we started with. So now I will show you what basic tools you need to buy rough diamonds. Here is a list of the basic tools that you will need. There are some you can use if you know anyone there like the diamond light but I will put all and then you can decide. I will include prices as well and you can buy from me if you like as I may have them cheaper than the jewelry supply houses that sell them.
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GEM TOOLS/LICENSES NEEDED TO BUY ROUGH AND POLISHED DIAMONDS

1. Diamond Loupe 10x (power) with correction for color aberrations. 2. Portable digital diamond scale. Get one that goes to 100 carats so that when you find that one of a kind you are ready to measure it and not have to guess at the weight. Since diamonds are sold by weight and are very expensive it is good to know exactly what you have. 3. MO Gauge or Jo Di Diamond gauge. I prefer the Jo Di as it figures in MM which is what diamonds are calculated in for sizing. 4. Portable color grading light. 5. Small penlight with LED bulbs. 6. Ultra violet light to check for fluorescence 7. Money with bank papers. 8. How to buy and deal with the people. 9. Common sense and patience. 10. Sierra Leone Diamond Dealers License.. 11. Resident Visa, Immigration Visa and Work Permit. The Resident Visa, Work Permit are needed to apply for the Diamond Dealers License. If you know someone well there is a way to get around this for a time or two or until you decide that you can make money and want to do it again. I will not go into listing the cost of the tools but if you need some please contact me and I will locate them for you. You can look on the internet as well but I may be able to get them for a bit cheaper. I should think you can get all the tools with the exception of the Diamond Dealers License/Resident Visa for no more then $400. Of all the tools listed the diamond scale will cost the most and about $300 for the 250 carat one. So if you decide to buy and want me to put together a rough diamond buying kit please let me know and I will get on it for you immediately.
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BASIC TOOLS FOR DIAMOND BUYING BOTH ROUGH AND POLISHED DIAMONDS
Diamond Loupe 10x
Diamond Scale Penlight for inspection Jo Di Diamond Gauge
Rapaport Sheet
Spread Gauge
MONEY
UV Light
Grading light
Diamond Dealers License
Resident Visa Card
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COMMON SENSE + PATIENCE AND THE ABILITY TO WORK WITH PEOPLE

Ok are you ready to rumble, as they say in the WWE. Lets go and learn how to buy diamonds in a country you may not have heard of and working with people that can Piss off the Pope, so to speak. Get ready for the fun of diamond buying and all the hassles that come with it as well.
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Are you ready to buy your diamonds? Then lets go and do the deed as they say in the SEALS. There are several stages to getting this done and I will go through them for you. It is a game that you need to learn how to play and then you can win. The first thing we do is get a room at the Bintumani Hotel for one night and rest some and the next day we move to the China Town hotel on the beach as it is much cheaper. We will be in Freetown about a week. Next is that you have all of you papers as shown above. There are ways to get around this but for the beginning buyer it is best to get them if you are sure you are going to stay with it. If you are not sure you will like it then if you know someone with a license and if they like you, you can use their license. This takes a little greasing of the palms so to speak but it can be done. Next we go to Kenema and the other areas where the diamonds are located. You can stay in Freetown but that is the place you will spend the most on them. The diamonds come from Kono area to Kenema and then Bo and then to Freetown and they get more expensive at each stop. So we go where we know where they are and they should be the cheapest. Now we get a hotel in Kenema (Capitol Hotel) and we can buy from the room or rent an office from another dealer or rent a house and use it as an office. Most of the houses in Kenema have offices set aside for that. I buy from the room as it is cheaper than renting an office and there is a safe we can keep the money and diamonds in if you like. I have known these people at the hotel for more than 10 years now and they are honest. We can also use the color grading machine there as well. Next I would call the dealers I know and tell them we are there and what we are looking for in the way of sizes and quality. I will also call the runners I know and have them start sourcing the diamonds we want. These are guys that go around to all the dealers and get diamonds from them and bring them to us. If we buy anything they bring or send we pay them a few of 2% generally. If we rent an office from another dealer then we will pay the office owner 2% or so as well. This is a business where everyone makes money and hopefully us as well Our very first stop will be to visit my old friend Mr. Barrie, the head of the Mines Department in Kenema. He is over all the MMOs (Mines monitors) in the Kono area and is a Mines Engineer as well. We had dinner and talked and he went home. I have known him for 10 years and he knows I will not knowingly break the law. (Note that Mr. Barrie had a stroke and is not in the office any longer. A good man I know, Mr. Sharka has the office now and we have been friends since 1995. I wish Mr. Barrie a speedy recovery.
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Here is our first outlay of money for protection from the above mentioned MMOs. The MMOs are without a doubt some very corrupt people. They are paid only about $100 a month for running around to make sure we are buying right and that the miners are mining according to the laws of the country. If they find you doing something wrong it will cost you money. Even if you are not doing something wrong they will try to intimidate you and make you think you are and it will cost you money. So you pay your dues and all is well. These MMOs tried to hustle me again in July when I took some buyers back. I was legal though and I had spoken to Mr. Barrie and they had nothing to yell about. I made sure I had my license before we went up country because I knew what they would do and they did not let me down. The second day we were there they came blowing into the hotel and right to me and told me they wanted to talk to me and the investor in the office. When I asked why, and of course I knew why, they said I was buying without a license. So I told them to fuck off (which seemed to surprise them a bit) and that I was not going anywhere with them and that I had my license. I told them that I had spoken to Mr. Barrie the night before and they should call him. Mr. Barrie was at a meeting in Freetown and when they called he told them to leave me alone as I was legal. Mr. Barrie called me and asked had the Monitors left and I informed him they had. So all they could do is look disgusted that they could not shake me down so they left and we did not see them again. The only thing that surprised me was that it took two days to come to me. I guess they are getting slower these days. But there is always someone doing the wrong thing so they can find someone else to shake down. Now the fun begins and the sellers start coming with their diamonds. So here is the scenario. We are sitting at our table and someone knocks on the door. Now it may be one person or a dozen. Now you may ask why a dozen people would come to sell a diamond. Well here is the reason: the diamond(s) do not belong to one person but are the results of all the people (miners) in the room. They do not trust anyone to tell the truth about what the diamonds sells for, if it does, so all come. It is hard to get all of them out of the room as you do not want a lot of people around you. You normally have a lot of money on hand and the less that see it the better. If only one person comes with a diamond that means it is his or he is a broker for another dealer, usually a Lebanese or a miner. They are much easier to deal with as there is not all the noise and racket of a crowd of people. Ok, they are in the room.
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WHAT DO YOU DO FIRST?

The very first thing you do is weigh the diamond/s in front of them so there is no question as to the weight when you start the serious part of the negotiating. The next thing you do is never tell them what you really think. Always down play the diamond and if you are looking for one size it is best not to tell them exactly what you want. Let them bring them all and you choose from them.
Step two is the story time of the buying. They will tell you what they want, eventually. It is usually like this: Me: what do want for the diamond? Them: Price em for me. Me. It is yours what do you want for it? Them: what will you give me for it? Me: what do you want for it? It is yours and you have to know what you want. Them: Price em for me. It is top quality and clean. What will you pay for it? Me: fuck you, tell me what you want for it or hit the bricks!! Them: Hey Bo, I want $5000 for this 1 carat eight corner diamond of fantastic color and so on. Me: are you nuts? Do you think I am so stupid and I dont know this diamond is worth no more than $400? Get the fuck out of my office you criminal. And on top of that it is not the quality you say. See the black spots in it, see the cracks and the shape is not all that good. You must be crazy (sick up the head) to want $500 for it. Maybe I will just offer you $350 for it instead. (This is part of the game. They say they have top goods and we tell them they must be drinking Palm Wine (Palm wine is a wine made from the palm tree) and are drunk. Most of the time they will say they cannot drink palm wine as they are Muslims. So then I accuse them of smoking diamba(marijuana) then they really think I have lost it. So then we talk and I look over the diamond to be sure I have not missed anything. (What I will do is turn the diamond in my fingers and look at it from all angles and use the penlight to look into better. You will find a lot of diamonds that are very transparent and you can see into them. Others will have skins on them and that makes it harder to see the inside and see what is there or not there if the diamond color grader is available, I will use it to see what it has to say about the color.) I will also check it for fluorescence with the UV light and if it fluoresces then I knock some more money from the price. The reason for this is that most people say a white diamond that fluoresces will make it look greasy and you do not want a diamond to look greasy. On the other side of the coin a diamond that fluoresces will make a yellow tinted diamond look white. So it all depends on what you want to begin with, a white diamond or a yellow one that can look a bit white.
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Them: Hey Bo, you know I cannot take $400 for it. I will take $500 for it. Me: No you will take $400 or hit the bricks and get out of the office. There are others waiting that are not sick up the head (crazy) like you. Them: ok but you have to give me transport money. I came from miles away (usually around the corner or down the street) and need to get home. Me: no I dont have to give you anything. Use some of your money you just made for transport and bring better one back next time and I will give you transport plus something small for your effort. (Keep in mind none of this back and forth is not done in a nasty tone and is the way I do it. I know some dealers that would not talk to the locals that way but that is the way I am. I am known all over Sierra Leone for the way I talk to people. But they do not mind and they know I am really a soft touch at times and will help when I can. Diamond buying is a business and not a charity so you have to be tough like the Lebanese and the others that are buying) It is all a game and you learn how to play it and what it takes to win. Sometime you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you. I just do not to be taken for an idiot. You can never let them know you do not know the price and when they keep what you will pay for it they are looking for a price and nothing more. They have no intention to sell to you and just want a price. They will shop around and take the best price and that is why I make them give a price or go home. Ok they have the diamond on the table and we have agreed it is such and such a weight and we have danced around the price, quality and life in general and now we will argue the actual cost.
THIS IS WHERE WE USE RAP DIAMOND SHEET

First though we will figure out what size of diamonds is inside of the rough. It is not hard with the Eight Corners or Octahedron. We are only working with a finished product of a Round Brilliant diamond. I can generally look at the shape and if it is good and not deformed or off center, then I figure it this way. This was is the way to get one large and one small diamonds from it. Lets say the diamond is the 9ct one we want. All I will do is divide the weight by 3, in this case 9ct and we know we will have a 3ct and a 1.5ct for the small one. This adds up to 4.5ct which is half of the total weight or 9ct. Understand? Ok, lets say you have not had your coffee today. We will do it the longhand method next, if you like to call it.

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Method two: LONGHAND We know our diamond is 9 carats or thereabouts. We know we are cutting it on the 70% mark, right? So break out the calculator and take 70% of 9 carats and you get 6.30 carats. Are you with me so far? Now we know we lose 50% of the weight with this shape so we divide the 6.30 carats by 2 and we get a surprise, surprise, surprise, 3.15ct back for the large diamond and 1.35 back for the small diamond. So we are almost identical with the first method of dividing the 9ct by 3. Not exactly rocket science is it? Lets say the diamond is the one we want and it is a good shape and not a misshaped octahedron but stands nice and tall like the one here. We will cut it at the 70% mark (Right diamond) as shown with the white arrow on the diamonds below.
See the 50% cut for two diamonds of the same size (left) and the 70% for one large and one small diamond above right. Ok we know that in this shape we will get a minimum of 3ct back in one diamond and a 1.5 in the smaller one. The 1.5ct will be above the arrow and the 3ct below. We have decided that the diamond is a very good VS and G color. Maybe we have even put it in to the Colormeter of my friend and we have a read out of G color. Now we have to use the Rap sheet to see what a 3ct G/VS will bring us minus 15% for the discount.
Startling Revelation
We will not really be able to tell if a diamond is a VS2-VS1 in the field. So when I say VS it is a combination of the VS1+VS2 grades. When you get into the VS quality and up it is very hard to see the inclusions with the loupe. Most people I know will not say a diamond is above VS and above without very good lighting and possibly a microscope. I will always use the lowest grade when buying. So if a diamond does not show any inclusions with the 10x loupe then we consider it VS. I will never say one is VVS even if I think it is. The same thing is true for all diamond clarities and you always figure a lower clarity and color grade and do not let them know what you really think. Back to our 9ct rough and what we think it is worth and what we want to offer the sellers. The going price is about $3500-4000 a carat or $31,500-$36,000 at their asking price. Of course we want to pay in the area of $3000 a carat or $27,000. Now it is time to see what Rap says and decide what we want to offer. We already know they will want $3500-4000 a carat and we are not sure that will work for us. Rapaport Selling Price on a 3.0ct G VS2=$50,235 ($19,700 per carat-15%) Rapaport Selling Price on a 1.5ct G VS2=$12,500 ($9,800 per carat-15%)
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Total potential return on diamond $62,735

Cost of diamond a 9ct rough diamond in sawable shape= $36,000 (rounding up to $40,000)
Total profit potential $22,735 with ROI 56.8% before expenses.

The above sounds good and will only work if you have the diamond cut in the Hearts and Arrows style of cutting. The reason for this is the discount you have to give off the Rapaport Sheet is 15% versus the 45%-60% on the average Tolkowsky Ideal Round Brilliant cut diamond. Here is a ballpark figure for what we should be able to get in the 3, 4 ,5 and 10ct diamonds in several color and clarity grades. The prices are for the diamond with the discount taken out of 15%.
3ct D/VS2= $66,000 3ct E/VS2 =$61,455 3ct F/VS2= $57,000 3ct G/VS2= $51,000 3ct H/VS2= $42,075 3ct D/IF=$158,610 6ct D/IF=$729,000
4ct D/VS2=$135,600 4ct E/VS2=$128,000 4ct F/VS2=$117,296 4ct G/VS2=$102,000 4ct H/VS2=$83,640 4ct D/IF=$294,780 9ct D/IF=$1,556,775
5ct D/VS2= $225,000 5ct E/VS2= $212,500 5ct F/VS2= $182,750 4ct G/VS2=$102,000 5ct H/VS2=$127,925 5ct D/IF=$516,375 10ct D/IF=$1,850,000
Just for the heck of it I will include the very top quality in each weight (in red) to show you what can be found if you have lots of patience to wait and see what comes along. Once the sellers know you are serious they will bring you many diamonds. I tossed the other ones in as it is in the realm of possibility to get diamonds that will produce these numbers. I will show you some in the end of the book that will have done far more than that. One is a 196ct H/SI that was bought for $6600 per carat or $1,176,000. It would have produced a single round brilliant of 65 carats if they wanted to cut it that way. Based on the 10 carat prices with no discount it should have sold for $2,275,000 and remember that was only half of the diamond. So there is money to be made if you are patient and know what to look for and choose very selectively. Using the Rap at the 10 carat price is up for some, as most people will use the 5.99ct price plus a percentage (3-12%) above that for figuring the real price on the larger diamonds. Gregg Lyell gems4u@rocketmail.com http://www.greggsgemhouse.com +240-550-7803
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The numbers are the carat sizes and not what they sell for!
The diamonds we looked at in July 2009

9.50ct Brown Sawable 7.00 carat Brown Flat diamond 5 carat flat diamond 5.66ct Mackle (Called a Dekka there). Asked $1500 pc. (Offered $566 a carat by scaling it.) 6.33ct Sawable 3.00carat Sawable (broken) 9 carat Dekka (very white and clean). If this one had been a good shape we would have taken it. 9.30ct Sawable (Brown) 6.37 Carat Flat. Excellent Color and VS clarity 23.42ctcarat Flat Yellow 3.38 carat Sawable Yellow -missing tip 3.56 carat Flat 4.86carat Sawable 2nd color 4.86 carat Sawable. G-H color, I1 clarity. Asking $1500 a carat. Not a bad price but the clarity sucked. 3.90 carat Dekka Yellow 3.35ct flat Yellow 8.48carat Sawable J color (asking $2500 a carat) A price you could make money on but I could not. It would not have given us a 3ct+ back and that was our goal. 3 carat Cleavage White 9.00carat Candle Color Cleavage 2.77 carat Sawable J color SI2 clarity 3.36carat Oblong shape 5.25carat Sawable Junk 3.21 carat Sawable junk 25 carat round Black 3.20 Cleavage H/SI clarity 1.62 carat Makeable I color 8.61 carat D/E color
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8.52 carat Brown Makeable with polished window. This one had gone to Belgium and back and they were trying to push it off as it had just come out of the ground. 7.39 carat Flat Brown 3.95carat Flat White 2.20 carat Sawable White. Asking $2000 a carat. A $600-800 a carat diamond. 1.60 carat Sawable I color 2.95 carat Sawable J color 7.98carat Sawable Greenish color 6.32 Carat Flat E/F color. Asking $5000 per carat. Far too much. I would offer $1800 a carat. 9 carat Candle color -Cleavage. (This is mentioned above and that means they sent it back with another runner thinking we did not remember it. We did and we offered even less the second time.) 30 carat Cleavage 2.77ct Sawable 2nd color. Very nice 3.36 Sawable H color
Some of these were very nice and some were crap but nothing was there that we needed to make the trip profitable. I generally tell investors to look for the 9-10ct D-G and SI1-VVS if possible to make the most money. We needed a 3ct and 1.5ct or more back to make money but it was not there. Anything less will bring less and with the price of diamonds as they are now you want only the best.
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INFORMATION ON THE CERTIFICATE OF ORIGIN AND THE BEGINNING OF THE KIMBERLEY PROCESS PAPERS. Blood Diamonds: The Conflict in Sierra Leone
History of Diamonds: The name "diamond" comes from the Greek word, "adamas" meaning unconquerable. Fittingly diamonds are made of pure carbon, and diamonds are the hardest natural substance known to man.1[1] Diamonds have long been a sign of wealth and fortune. Kings and queens have worn these forms of concentrated carbon and even more countless millions people over time have lusted after them. These gems can be transparent, truculent white, yellow, green, blue, or brown. To understand the value of these stones, and ultimately their role in war, it helps to first understand their origins and where they come from. Diamonds are the most frequently used for capital by the rebels in Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of Congo use to purchase weapons. The earliest gem diamonds were found in India and Borneo, were they were found in riverbeds. In the early eighteenth century, deposits similar to those in India were found in Brazil. The story of diamonds in Africa began between December 1866 and February 1867, when a 15year-old found a transparent stone on his father's farm, on the south bank of the Orange River. Within the next fifteen years, African diamond mines produced more diamonds than the India, the previous leading producer, had in the last 2,000 years. This increase in production occurred at the same time as the diamond mines in Brazil experiences a sharp decline in their production. The depletion of mines in Brazil assured that supply would remain stable and diamond prices would not fall as they previously had when Brazil over produced in the 1730s.2[2] Diamonds are the pure form of carbon in a transparent state, that is formed below the surface of the Earth. Over 150 Kilometers below the Earths surface in the mantle, diamonds are formed. The diamonds make their way up the surface captured within liquid hot rock or magma. Once they reach the surface diamonds can be found in volcanic pipes called kimberlite pipes or in loose mineral deposits called alluvial deposits.
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www.debeers.com Kanfer, Stefan. The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World.
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Alluvial deposits are created by diamond pipe erosion and are easily excavated. They require very little financial capital to be invested in the removal. This is due to the fact that they are often found in riverbeds and along the coast and they do not require highly advanced mining techniques nor do they require a large amount of human capital. The simplest method of mining alluvial deposits is with a shovel and a pan. With this method diamonds and soil are shoveled into a hand held pan where they are separated by agitation and shorted by eye. More advanced methods of mining use large machinery that moves the alluvial in to large shorting pans that send different densities to smaller picking tables followed by a grease table. Since diamonds are mostly water repellent, they are sorted in alluvial deposits by using grease. While other minerals develop a water coding and slide of the grease, the water resistant diamonds stick to the grease and are collected. Mining kimberllite pipe requires a more advanced degree of mining technology and is more expensive. The first step in mining a kimberlite pipe is to dig the pit. In "open-pit" or "open-cast" mining, the layers of rock are dug up and eventually tunnels and pipe are build so the hard ore material can be removed with large hydraulic shovels and trucks. The hard rock is broken into pieces with shovels and other methods until the rock is small enough to be removed from the mine by truck. When the kimberlite ore is deep underground it must be removed by mining a series of underground shafts in the pipe that allow the ore to be carved off and make its way down the tunnel to a draw point. At these points the crushed ore is brought up to the surface for processing. Only about 20% of the world's diamonds are taken from pipe mines, and the remaining 80% of diamonds are alluvial. In 1866, the first diamonds in Africa were found. Before the discovery of diamonds in South Africa diamonds were very scarce and they were highly valued. Following the discovery of diamonds in Africa the production of diamonds increased tenfold in the next tens years. Diamond Trade and De Beers: Today, over two thirds of the worlds diamonds come from one company, De Beers. The London based company was one the first companies involved in the mining for diamonds in Africa immediately following their discovery. Cecil Rhodes was attracted to the new prospects of mining in African and he started his search for diamonds in 1870. Another English immigrant miner named Barney Barnato, Rhodes rival, also fought to control the same diamond claims as Rhodes. By 1880, Rhodes had bought out Barnato and had founded De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. Rhodes envisioned controlling the whole diamond market. By 1888, he had realized his vision and he had gained monopolistic control over the whole diamond market.
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He completed his monopoly with the formation of cartel, the London Diamond Syndicate, who were that biggest diamond merchants of the time. His syndicate allowed him to perfectly match supply with demand. They provided him with critical information about the diamond market allowing him to create an artificially controlled supply of diamonds. In return for their assistance, the diamond merchants were guaranteed a certain amount of diamonds from Rhodes mines. In 1929, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer was elected as the chairman of the board of De Beers. Oppenheimer followed the model of his predecessor by using the single channel marketing structure and formed the Central Selling Organization (CSO) by incorporating other major sellers and producers into De Beers syndicate. Oppenheimers strategy was tested during the Great Depression and the amount of diamonds mined was significantly higher than the amount of buyers at that time. As a result, Oppenheimer was forced to close many of De Beers mines and still purchase diamonds from other members of the CSO as arranged. Following the death of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer in 1957, his son Harry assumed the role of chairman at De Beers. Like his father he believed strongly in single channel marketing and in 1958 he signed an agreement with the Soviet Union to purchase their diamonds that were being mined at the Mir mine in Yakutia. Before Harrys role as chairman, he made some very significant contributions to De Beers. In 1939, Harry initiated the marketing campaign for diamonds in the United States. This campaign helped to expand the market for diamonds to middle class Americans who had previously believed that diamonds were only for the extremely wealthy. As a result of their marketing scheme, De Beers was able to increase the supply diamonds in the world to meet the new demand. In 1947, the famous slogan A diamond is forever was penned and the De Beers marketing machine was born. By 1982, De Beers was marketing diamonds all over the world including Europe, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Taiwan. At this point, it had become critical for De Beers to be able to expand demand as a result of all the new mines that were being discovered and exploited. Despite their marketing success to increase demand for diamonds, De Beers was forced to stockpile a large number of their own diamonds between 1992 and 1998. De Beers stockpile grew by over one million dollars as a result of the increase of rough diamonds. By the end of the twentieth century, De Beers marketing strategy had begun to back fire on them. Their supply management have led to legal troubles in the United States. The Department of Justice have charge De Beers with violating U.S. antitrust laws and as a result they now have a reduced presence in the United States.
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The costs of creating a diamond buffer and advertise for the whole market had become unsustainable for them. As a result, the twenty first century saw them to begin to restructure their company and rethink their marketing strategy. But, despite this slight hiccup in De Beers continual monopolist presence in the diamond market, they still control over two thirds of todays market ant they are still the driving force behind the Diamond market
Sierra Leone:
The diamond history of Sierra Leone began in 1935 when De Beers legally took complete control of the dining prospects in Sierra Leone for the next 99 years. Despite De Beers presence, Lebanese traders within Sierra Leone quickly discovered the immense profits that could be made by smuggling diamonds out of the country. As a result, illicit mining and trading soon increased throughout Sierra Leone. By the 1950s the government of Sierra Leone had virtually given up on policing the majority of its diamond industry. All foreign investors were forced to provide their own security for both their personnel and mines. The government did however tighten security in two places. They increased their presence in the Kono diamond district and in Freetown the diamond export center. The result was that illegitimate diamonds were diverted from the high security cites and taken to Liberia and an illegal diamond pipeline between Sierra Leone and Liberia was born. The government seeming took further unintentional steps to increase illegal mining when it passed the Alluvial Mining Scheme in 1956. The scheme allowed indigenous miners to receive mining and trading licenses and the number of illicit miners increased by over 75,000 people 3[3]. In 1961, Sierra Leone gained independence from Great Britain. It was after gaining its independence did diamond smuggling become a political problem as well as an economic one. In 1968, populist Siaka Stevens became prime minister, bringing the country to a one-party ruler. Stevens was the first person to officially connect the diamond mines to political power and profit, and he encouraged illicit mining to gain political power. He nationalized the diamond mines and De Beers' SLST by creating the National Diamond Mining Co. Through NDMC, Stevens gave himself and his key advisor, Lebanese businessman Jamil Mohammed, control of the diamond mines. Under Stevens' authority, legitimate diamond trading dropped from more than two million carats in 1970 to 595,000 carats in 1980 and 48,000 carats in 19884[4]. At the end of Stevens' 17-year rule, De Beers removed itself from Sierra Leone. In 1984, De Beers' sold its remaining shares to the Precious Metals Mining Co., controlled by
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Hirsch, John L. Sierra Leone: Diamonds and the Struggle for Democracy Hirsch, John L. Sierra Leone: Diamonds and the Struggle for Democracy
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Mohammed. A year later, Stevens retired and his successor, Joseph Momoh, took control of Sierra Leone. With little political or leadership skills, he placed even more responsibility in Mohammed's hand. As a result illicit diamond mining within Sierra Leone flourished. By 1991, Sierra Leone had a corrupt government and openly illicit diamond trading and was a vulnerable and attractive site for armed rebellion. On March 23, a civil war began when the Revolutionary United Front, a group of 100 fighters from Sierra Leone and Liberia, invaded east Sierra Leone. Foday Sankoh, an ex-army sergeant led the RUF. Sankoh said he represented the urban dispossessed and promised impoverished peasants a greater share in the mineral wealth misused by the corrupt government5[5]. However, Sankoh used brutal tactics, such as mutilation and amputation, against these same peasants to allegedly expose the government's inability to protect its citizens.
Throughout the nine-year civil war, fighting concentrated in and around the diamond districts. RUF leaders were very aware that whoever controls the diamond mines controls Sierra Leone, and profits from smuggled diamonds funded its attack. Since the civil war began, Sierra Leone has suffered complete desolation. It is wholly dependent on outside support from Great Britain, Nigeria and South Africa's security forces. Sierra Leone's own army is corrupt; its soldiers are nicknamed "Sobels," rebels by day, soldiers by night.
Finally, in July 1999, Sankoh and Sierra Leone's president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, signed the Lome Peace Accord under pressure from the U.N. and the U.S. government. RUF agreed to surrender its forces for a share in Sierra Leone's government. As a concession to RUF, Sankoh was released from the death sentence he earned for his war crimes and made chairman of the Strategic Mineral Resources Commission, a position that controlled most of Sierra Leone's diamond exports.
Although the accord was long in coming, it brought a short peace. On Jan. 6, 2000, just seven months after it was signed, RUF revived its attacks on Freetown and Sierra Leone's government. Despite its promises to surrender its forces, RUF never did. Now Sierra Leone is once again battling RUF, and control over the diamond mines is still at the center of the conflict. Ultimately as a result, the UN has issued a ban on nongovernmental diamonds from Sierra Leone.
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Hirsch, John L. Sierra Leone: Diamonds and the Struggle for Democracy
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The Costs of Conflict Diamonds: Sierra Leone has suffered terrible social and economic costs as a result of its civil war and fight over diamond control. Under the cover of warfare the rebels committed heinous crimes against humanity in the form of murder, rape, and mutilation. The war between 1991 and 1999 claimed over 75,000 lives, caused 500,000 Sierra Leoneans to become refugees, and displaced half of the countries 4.5 million people6[6]. Also during this period, the Sierra Leone economy was being cheated out of millions of dollars in the form of illegal diamonds.
Rape of women and girls was widespread and systematic during Sierra Leone's conflict through most of the 1990s, and is reportedly continuing on a smaller scale in areas still controlled by rebels in the north and east of the country. Members of the RUF primarily perpetrated this brutal tactic as a tool of war to terrorize the civilian population into submission and break-apart families and communities. In addition, to the thousands of women who were raped, thousands more women and girls were abducted and taken into the bush to travel with the rebels and to act as domestic sex slaves to the fighters. . In many cases the abducted were gang raped, beaten, starved, tortured, forced to walk long distances carrying heavy loads, and told they would be killed if they tried to escape. The rebels have been reluctant to turn over children in spite of their obligation to do so under the Lome Peace Accord and have been particularly slow to hand over girls. Girls and young women who managed to escape from the rebels or who were released, suffer a variety of consequences such as sexually transmitted infections. These include HIV/AIDS, trauma and post traumatic stress disorder, extreme anxiety and alienation by their communities and families. Numerous women also were left with scarring and serious gynecological problems, such as damaged uteruses and bladders. A high percentage of the survivors are pregnant or are now single mothers of so-called "rebel babies." The Rebels also terrorize citizens with the systemic mutilation of men, women, and children. The rebels had teams dedicated to capturing citizens and mutating them. Often times they cut off both the victims hands and put the hands in a rice bag and took it back to their commanders.
Such behavior is not an isolated event or the product of undisciplined soldiers, it is the rebels gruesome strategy and can be traced back to the leaders of the RUF. As a result of these acts, the thousands of surviving amputees in Sierra Leone were forced in to refugee camps. Many of these people are illiterate and support themselves by farming the land, and they are left futureless as a result of their needless amputations.
Eliminating Blood Diamonds:

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Tamm, Ingrid J. Diamonds in Peace and War: Severing the Conflict-Diamond Connection
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As a result of these grave tragedies, the world is now starting to take small steps in an effort to eliminate conflict diamonds. The UN has placed a embargos on conflict diamonds, while providing peacekeepers, economic aid, and other sources of assistance. There has also been the introduction of the Kimberley process. The Kimberley Process is a certification system for monitoring a diamonds origin from the mine, up until it reaches the hands of the distributors. With this process all diamonds collected from a mine are sealed in containers, and given warrantees. As they move from location to location, they are given further identifications to verify their origin. The United States is currently working on legislation for the Clean Diamond Act. This act would ban any diamonds that come from an unknown origin. Both the Clean Diamond Act and the Kimberly process are an attempt to create a diamond paper trail and to eliminate conflict diamonds from the diamond markets. While these resolutions are both a good start it is clear that it will take more for this conflict to be resolved. The main problem with conflict diamonds is the structure of the diamond industry. Since, De Beers controls the majority of the market, they lack real incentive to address the problem of conflict diamonds due to the fact that conflict diamonds are such a small portion of the worldwide diamond sales. However, if the diamond industry were a truly completive market then conflict diamonds would have a greatly adverse affect on the whole market and would be quickly addressed and dealt with by the member of the diamond industry. Such a fact raises the question, why is there still a monopoly in the diamond market today? De Beers in still operating, off the contracts that were made at the end ,of the nineteenth century with governments that for the most part do not still exist in those countries. Many of the contracts were made when these African countries were still colonies of European nations. Today, most of these countries have gained their independence but still honor these ancient contracts. This is where the newly formed African Union should step in on behalf of these African nations and challenge the current legality of these contracts in world court. All African nations would benefit from the release of these contracts and being allowed to have control over their own mines. If they were given this control they could use the increased revenues from the mines to reinvest into the growth and development of that particular country and its economy. As demonstrated above with the atrocities that have occurred in Sierra Leone, it is apparent that some action immediately needs to be taken to eliminate these sources of death and destruction.
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Whether the solution is, the current action that is taking place or a more dramatic solution, action needs to be taken now because enough lives have been ruined and lost over a valueless piece of carbon. Eric Johnson EDGE Dec. 6, 2002 Footnotes:
Bibliography: Campbell, Greg. Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the Worlds Most Precious Stones. New York: Westview Press, 2003. Hirsch, John L. Sierra Leone: Diamonds and the Struggle for Democracy. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2001. Kanfer, Stefan. The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993. Tamm, Ingrid J. Diamonds in Peace and War: Severing the Conflict-Diamond Connection. Cambridge: World Peace Foundation, 2002. Web Sources: Allafrica.com: www.allafrica.com Amnesty International: www.amnesty.org CNN: www.cnn.com De Beers: www.debeers.com
155 carats we bought at approximately $800 a carat and the parcel had about (10) 5-7 carat sawables in it. This was in Kenema in 2000.
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF STONE (DIAMOND) SHAPES

(Courtesy-MORE OR LESS- of ADTEC Diamond Price List)
These photos are from the ADTEC Price list and that is the only thing I like about it. You can show someone the shapes and not have to explain it to them.
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ADTEC LISTS FOR 3 CARAT AND 9 CARAT ROUGH

This is the price ADTEC says to pay for 3ct diamonds in the Sawable Shape and the Makeable. I include it here to show you why you cannot use it. Just for an example look at the 3ct G/VS2 is $1200 per carat and that is low for Sierra Leone.
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ADTEC 9CT PRICE LISTS

Again the prices are too high or too low to use this list. Why is that you say? I say it is a trade secret and I cannot tell all I know yet. Sorry

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Genuine Local Rough Diamond Prices July 2009

These are prices I use to buy and have used for the last 9 years. They go up and down a bit but you can use these as a standard beginning price and take it from there. The new prices are in red and are from June of 2010 trip. Old prices are in black. Requirements: Good shape and 1st and 2nd color (D-E/ F-G), If to VS clarity.
1 carat $450 -500 p/c 1.5 to 1.79ct $750 p/c 2 carat $1000-1500 p/c 2.40-2.79ct $1700-2500 p/c 2.80-3.20ct $1000-2200 p/c 3 carat $1350-$1500 p/c 3.20-3.80ct $ 1200-3500 p/c 4 carat $2200-4000 p/c 5 carat $3000-5000 p/c 6 carat $4000-6000 p/c 9ct carat $7000-10,000 p/c (Old prices were $3500-5000 per carat)
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Scammers Price Lists from Sierra Leone via the Internet

These are total bullshit and you should pay no attention to them at all. They are being done by criminals there to get you to the country and find a way to take your money. I will show you one as they are all the same with little difference in the prices.
If you check my list above this one you will see the great difference in prices. A decent one carat costs $450-550 and never in its history has it sold for $200-350 a carat; a good 3 carat costs around $1300-1600 a carat and this guy has them for $450. Not fucking possible and I do my best to let people know that anyone selling diamonds from Sierra Leone, on the internet, is a liar and criminal.
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Sierra Leone Diamond Exports 2008

(Average price is $218 per carat) This article is here to show you what the Sierra Leone Government exported in 2008. Some of the scammers claim they export $50,000,000-$100,000,000 and you can see that the government is down in its imports so how can they, the lying scammers, do as much as they say? SIERRA LEONE DIAMOND EXPORTS DOWN 31% 18 January 2009 Sierra Leone's exports of 371,285 carats of diamonds in 2008 were worth US$98 million, compared to exports of 448,928 carats worth US$141.5 million in 2007, marking a fall of 31 percent, according to data from the country's Ministry of Mineral Resources (MMR). "The drop is attributed to the inability of major exporters to do business especially Koidu Holdings," says a spokesman for the Ministry, specifically referring to the cessation of Koidu's operations for several months due to industrial action. In 2008, Sierra Leone undertook a review of all mining agreements and other mineral rights in the country. President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma appointed a broad based task force to lead the review which covered technical, legal, financial and social issues. The purpose of the review was to guarantee optimal benefits to the people of Sierra Leone from the exploitation of the country's mineral resources by raising the standards of transparency and accountability for mining companies as well as the government and by balancing the need to provide appropriate incentives for investors in the sector while ensuring fair returns to the country from mining operations. Aided by national and international analytical teams and specialists, the task force reviewed all existing mineral agreements including prospecting, exploration and mining leases and made recommendations aimed at producing a fairer arrangement for all parties. Though a progress report has been presented to the President, no final recommendations or decisions have been made on any specific mining lease or agreement. The Sierra Leone government expressed its wishes to assure current and potential investors in the mining sector that the review was intended to serve the best interests of both the people of Sierra Leone and investors by creating an environment that fosters greater transparency streamlines procedures and guarantees mutual trust and peaceful co-existence among all the stakeholders in the sector.
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TOP TWO EXPORTERS OF DIAMONDS IN SIERRA LEONE 2008/9/10 etc.

Here you will see the top two exporters in Sierra Leone for 2008. They have been this way for some time now. If you look at the figures you will see that between both of them they export 89% of all diamonds from the country. So out of the $98,000,000 exported in 2008, they did $87,220,000 of that, where can these scam artists get the $50,000,000-$100,000,000 they claim to do in the exporting business? These two men are generally the top exporters any year. Again I say do not believe anything they (the scammers) tell you as they are liars and criminals. Hisham Mackie Hisham Mackie (born 1969 in Freetown) is a multimillionaire Sierra Leonean businessman. He is by far the biggest diamond exporter from Sierra Leone, accounting for 51% of all official Sierra Leone diamond exports and the richest Sierra Leonean with an estimated net worth of US$ 87.0 million. His company, H.M Diamond has exported over 204 million U.S dollars worth of diamonds in past three years. Kassim Basma Kassim Basma (born in 1960 in Koidu Town, Sierra Leone) is a multimillionaire Sierra Leonean businessman and the second leading diamond exporter from Sierra Leone, accounting for around 38% of all official Sierra Leone diamond exports. Basma was born in Kono District in Eastern Sierra Leone. He was born into a family of Lebanese descent from the southern Lebanese village of Ain Baal. He is a member of the Basma family, one the oldest families of Lebanese descent in Sierra Leone. I know both of these men but not well and I know Ahmed Mackie, the son of Hisham.
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(BONUS BOOK ADDED)

TO ALL THAT WANT TO BUY ROUGH DIAMONDS IN SIERRA LEONE, WEST AFRICA
(Reprint from one of my book by the same name)
My name is Gregg and a lot of you out there have seen the ads for Sierra Leone diamonds on the site here, Alibaba. I have lived in Sierra Leone for the last 12 years and have been a diamond dealer and diamond miner for most of those years and I am going to tell you once and for all that all of those price lists you see are TOTAL BULLSHIT. I hope this is clear enough for all of you reading this.
THERE IS NO ONE IN THE COUNTRY THAT HAS THE AMOUNTS AND QUALTIES OF DIAMONDS THESE SCAMMERS ARE ADVERTISING. IF YOU KNOW ANYONE OTHER THAN ME THAT HAS BEEN THERE AND HAD A LICENSE, ASK THEM.
CALL THE MINISTRY OF MINES AND ASK THEM ABOUT WHAT YOU READ AND GIVE THEM SOME OF THE PRICES AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I MEAN. YOU CAN GET THEIR PHONE NUMBER OFF THE INTERNET.
YOU CANNOT JUST ROLL UP AND BUY DIAMONDS WITHOUT THE PROPER PAPERWORK. I CAN SINCE I HAVE BEEN THERE 12 YEARS BUT YOU CANNOT AND I WOULD SUGGEST YOU DO NOT TRY. PADEMBA ROAD PRISON IS NOT I HEAR, ESPECIALLY FOR A WHITE MAN OR FOREIGNER. I recently came back from a buying trip(July 2009) and had to talk to a few of those people for some people back here and it was as I told them it would be. I would call them and their answer for the price of a diamond was this is not a phone business and we have to meet, FACE TO FACE. Total bullshit as we do not have to meet. I can call any dealer I know, local or Lebanese ( and I know about 100 most likely) and they can give me a price. Why could they not give me a price? That is their business and they should know. After telling one he was full of shit he finally told me a 1 carat Sawable stone of 1st color (D-E) would run me $2000! This man had big balls to say the least. That diamond costs no more than $500, tops, in the color mentioned, eye clean and the Sawable shape. I know the prices you get from these people are $200 and so on and that is not possible. What I told the people I talked with was to meet with me and the Director of Mineral resources or come
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to GDO and meet my friend there and we can look over the diamonds and see what they are worth. The valuer was waiting for me to bring the people to him and of course I did not as there were no diamonds just bullshit and lies to get you there.
IF YOU WANT TO BUY DIAMONDS THEN THIS IS HOW I WORK. IF YOU CANNOT DO THIS THEN DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MINE. WE DO IT THE RIGHT WAY OR NO WAY, PURE AND SIMPLE. (There is some wiggle room in the consulting fee if all is well so dont be afraid to ask.)
Consulting Fee of $400 a day for a month and the airfare there paid in advance. I will meet you in Dulles here, in DC, or I can meet you in the UK as I did with the group last month or we can meet in Freetown. It is up to you. For the first trip we can negotiate the fee somewhat. The fee is by the month unless agreed otherwise. I can take two weeks fee if that is easier on you but we will need to stay at least two weeks to show the miners we are serious. All expenses while there. That does not mean I can do anything I want but whatever I do you do.
You listen to me as that is what you are paying me for. If I catch you even speaking to these other people I come home and you are on your own. You people do not know the country or the law and I do and I know what they do to foreigners that try to go around the laws there. I am not going to prison because some of you want to do things the easy way. There is no easy way only the right way.
Any licenses we need you pay for as that comes under EXPENSES. I just renewed my 2009-2010 Diamond Dealers license so I am good in that area for another year. I will add it to this letter as well.
I can offer cutting, polishing and selling in one spot as well. This is from my cutter who has been going there since 1978 or thereabouts and knows what is going on there. He is an excellent cutter and is well known in the country (Sierra Leone and the US). If you wish to talk to him about me then I will give you the number and numbers of a couple of others I have bought diamonds for over the years.
If you use my cutter then I get 6% of the sales of the polished. If you take them and say you are selling as rough then the $12,000 for the months Consulting Fee is all I receive and of course I believe you when you say you are not cutting them. You will be prepared to stay for a minimum of 12 days and we will travel to Kenema, Bo and maybe Koidu, in the Kono area. The Diamond trail runs from Kono, to Kenema and then to Bo and then Freetown. Being in Kenema gives us first shot at the stones coming from Kono. 39
We may rent an office from someone to buy or we may work from the hotel in Kenema. We will decide that when we get there. I have worked from the hotel and it is fine and security is good. If we stay more than the month then at the beginning of the next month you will pay for another month in cash to me there or have the fee deposited into my bank account. It does not matter if we stay 2 weeks or four weeks you will pay for the month. I will show you around the country and will not let you spend money that does not need to be spent. I will find you a good hotel and we will stay there.
I will tell you how to carry the money and have no problems with customs there or I can arrange for it to be sent to a bank account once we are there. It is up to you. You can carry $100,000 on you with no problem if you like or more. I will need to know what you want in the way of diamonds and not just diamonds before hand. If it is not possible then I will tell you so and we will not go.
I will take you to everyone I know in the business there and that includes the government officials at the Ministry of Mines, including the Minister who is a friend, the Director of Mines and the former Director General of Mines as well. I will take you the GDO which where you will meet the Independent Valuer who is also a friend of mine for many years and you are free to ask him anything about diamonds, me or whatever tickles your fancy. I hide nothing and you will see that all is above board and legal.
We will do this right or not at all. I am not looking for a vacation and I value my reputation and all the hard work I have done there since 1996.
MOST IMPORTANTLY I GUARANTEE NOTHING IN THE WAY OF CERTAIN TYPES OF DIAMONDS. I WILL NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE IT. IF WHAT WE WANT, BASED ON WHAT YOU TELL ME YOU NEED IS NOT THERE, THEN YOU GO HOME WITH NOTHING BUT NICE MEMORIES OF THE BEACH, THE MONEY YOU SAVED AND YOU CAN TRY AGAIN LATER. IF I COULD TELL YOU WHAT WILL BE THERE AT ANY GIVEN TIME I COULD GUESS A WINNING LOTTERY NUMBER AND GET OUT OF THIS BUSINESS. If the diamonds are not there they are not there. It takes some time and patience to get what you want at times. If God lets the miners have them, then we have a shot at them. If not well that is the game.
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So that is it. If you want to go buy then contact me and we can get started. Keep in mind I hate to be a jerk but I will not even inquire about a ticket until I get the money from you for the fee and ticket. That sounds harsh but that is the way it has to be. I am not in the business to waste time and your money. When we go what I say is the law, so to speak. I am not going to jail or prison or be deported for breaking laws when there are ways to do things. I can break the laws to our advantage but you cannot, so dont try. We will discuss everything and agree on what to do and how to do the buying but you will not go off on your own and talk to people. Everybody is out to make a buck there and they will tell you anything and then they will work with the cops to set you up and they will receive 25% of the value of anything you may have bought. So it has to be my way or no way at all if I go with you.
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MOST IMPORTANT NOTE:

When we go what is say is the law, so to speak. I am not going to jail or prison or be deported for breaking laws when there are ways to do things. I can break the laws to our advantage but you cannot so dont try. We will discuss everything and agree but you will not go off on your own and talk to people. Everybody is out to make a buck there and they will tell you anything and then they will work with the cops to set you up and they will receive 25% of the value of anything you may have bought. So it has to be my way or no way at all if I go with you. When you are ready I will send you my bank account number and we can start. Of course you can go on your own as well and I wish you the best of luck. Just remember if you go by yourself get all your licenses such as the resident visa ($1400, if you are lucky and know someone), your Multiple Entry Visa $130 (at the embassy in Washington DC), your work permit which can cost $200 (as it did me this last time) your Dealers License which is $4000 now (instead of $5000), and pay the Income tax of 600,000 Leones ($200), Rehabilitation fee of 500,000 Leones ($166) and the Monitoring fee (by the Mines Monitors) of $500. As you can see if you go alone it can cost you in the area of $6600 if you can swing it. Technically you are to be in the country for 6 months before you can get the Resident Visa which you must have to get the Diamond Dealers License. If you know someone you can get around this and if not you may end up paying the whole amount. I know who to see and I have all my papers so it is much easier for you to take me. And if you do this, ON YOUR OWN, do not meet with anyone that does not have a Mining License as it is illegal to buy diamonds from anyone but a miner unless you have an Exporters License ($40,000) or Exporters Agents license ($6000) and they were all given out when I was there last month (July 2009). Do not let anyone tell you can buy from them because they have a dealers or exporters license. It is a con game and half the time they are working with the cops for the 25% they will get on any diamonds you are caught with. YOU CAN ONLY BUY FROM MINERS AND THEY MUST GIVE YOU A RECEIPT WITH THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS. DONT LET YOUR GREED GET YOU PUT IN PRISON THERE. IF THEY CATCH YOU THEY WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND ANY DIAMONDS YOU HAVE BOUGHT AND YOU WILL NEVER GET EITHER BACK
I am adding one of the price lists from the Alibaba website so you can see what I am talking about. Just so you will know, a 1 carat diamond cost $450-500 in Sierra Leone; a 2 carat may run $850-900; a 3 carat may hit $1300-1600 and the 9 carats should be around $3500 a carat and up. Compare that to the lists I will add and you will see they are totally full of bullshit and it is a con to get you there and find a way to take your money.
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If you are serious and do not know diamonds or the diamonds in Sierra Leone, I will want you to go to my website and buy the book i wrote on buying diamonds in Sierra Leone and in other countries as well. It is not a requirement of course but you need to have some idea of what I will be doing for you.
The book is $300 and the reason for that is all the scammers taking my info and using it to get people to come and then take their money. I will refund your money if you and I go and buy diamonds. If they want my info then they are going to pay for it now. The book is about 50 pages and has all you really need to know about the country and the diamonds. You will see everything concerning the licenses, sales books that the Ministry of Mineral Resources gives you and so on. Once you have the book I will know you are serious and then we can talk. If you chose not to get the book then you are missing out on info that can aide you to understand how it goes. That is not a problem as I will show you as we go and do the buying.
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(I am working the rocker in Sierra Leone, relaxing after a hard day buying diamonds in Kenema, Sierra Leone and measuring my mining site in Kamakwie, Northern Sierra Leone)
Hello, my name is Gregg Lyell and the above photo is me, after a hard day of buying rough diamonds with my friend Arie, in Kenema, Sierra Leone at a local guesthouse. It is not 5 stars but for this part of the world it is ok. I began my work in the jewelry trade back in 1968 in Orlando, Florida and my main items then were polished diamonds and colored gemstones, with Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald being my favorites. I am a Viet Nam veteran and served proudly with the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sep) from 19661968. My company was A/2/503 and we had many good men and true heroes in it. I am honored to have served with them.
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We also made the only combat jump of the Viet Nam war on February 22, 1967 in War Zone D. This was another interesting point in my life as well. Our ten minutes of fame? I very proud to have been a good friend to Sgt Major Charles B. Morris winner of the Congressional Medal Of Honor and the only man to win the Distinguished Service Cross as well which was upgraded to the Medal Of Honor after an 8 hour battle in Xuan Loc, near Vung Tau.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.
Seeing indications of the enemy's presence in the area, S/Sgt. Morris deployed his squad and continued forward alone to make a reconnaissance. He unknowingly crawled within 20 meters of an enemy machine gun, whereupon the gunner fired, wounding him in the chest. S/Sgt. Morris instantly returned the fire and killed the gunner. Continuing to crawl within a few feet of the gun, he hurled a grenade and killed the remainder of the enemy crew. Although in pain and bleeding profusely, S/Sgt. Morris continued his reconnaissance. Returning to the platoon area, he reported the results of his reconnaissance to the platoon leader. As he spoke, the platoon came under heavy fire. Refusing medical attention for himself, he deployed his men in better firing positions confronting the entrenched enemy to his front. Then for 8 hours the platoon engaged the numerically superior enemy force. Withdrawal was impossible without abandoning many wounded and dead. Finding the platoon medic dead, S/Sgt. Morris administered first aid to himself and was returning to treat the wounded members of his squad with the medic's first aid kit when he was again wounded. Knocked down and stunned, he regained consciousness and continued to treat the wounded, reposition his men, and inspire and encourage their efforts. Wounded again when an enemy grenade shattered his left hand, nonetheless he personally took up the fight and armed and threw several grenades which killed a number of enemy soldiers. Seeing that an enemy machine gun had maneuvered behind his platoon and was delivering the fire upon his men, S/Sgt. Morris and another man crawled toward the gun to knock it out. His comrade was killed and S/Sgt. Morris sustained another wound, but, firing his rifle with 1 hand, he silenced the enemy machine gun. 45
Returning to the platoon, he courageously exposed himself to the devastating enemy fire to drag the wounded to a protected area, and with utter disregard for his personal safety and the pain he suffered, he continued to lead and direct the efforts of his men until relief arrived. Upon termination of the battle, important documents were found among the enemy dead revealing a planned ambush of a Republic of Vietnam battalion. Use of this information prevented the ambush and saved many lives. S/Sgt. Morris' gallantry was instrumental in the successful defeat of the enemy, saved many lives, and was in the highest traditions of the U.S. Army. Upon termination of the battle, important documents were found among the enemy dead revealing a planned ambush of a Republic of Vietnam battalion. Use of this information prevented the ambush and saved many lives. S/Sgt. Morris' gallantry was instrumental in the successful defeat of the enemy, saved many lives, and was in the highest traditions of the U.S. Army. *****
This battle was my first test of strength, honor and ability and it did scare the hell out of me but most us did what we had to do to get through it. Then again I digress and that is another story altogether. I enrolled in the Gemological Institute of America (GIA)-not to be confused with the other Company by the letters CIA in 1972 and graduated from the Diamonds and Colored Gemstones course. I also spent a bit of time in Thailand at the AIGS (Asian Institute of Gemological Sciences) doing a course on colored gemstones. For several years, from 1970-1994, I ran all over the country from Orlando, Florida to Cherry Hill, New Jersey to Tucson, Arizona ( at the Gem show there each February) and so on, selling and buying diamonds, gold, colored gemstones. During this time I would keep up with what was happening in the world of diamonds and colored gems and learn what I could when I could. I had articles published in the Gems and Gemology magazine which is the magazine of the GIA as well and in some other gem type magazines found on newsstands. In 1994 I came to Sierra Leone, West Africa, with my diamond cutter, to get some rough diamonds for a man that wanted some rough diamonds for his wifes necklace and I have been here every since. (At the time of this book, December 2008 I am back in the States for a bit)
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I was in Sierra Leone in 1997 for most of the Coup de Etat. I left Sierra Leone and went to Siberia, in December of 1997 and I almost died! Going from 90 degrees to 40 below, in Siberia is quite a change and it took some getting used to and a lot of Vodka, and I dont even like the stuff. I went there with another diamond cutter and he bought $52,000,000 in rough and polished diamonds and I was looking for Alexandrite and other colored gemstones. I bought the amazing amount of zip, nada, zero, nothing!! The Russians at the time thought everyone was working for the KGB (GRU now) so they did not take to well to me. In 1999, I started mining here in Sierra Leone and even though the war was still going on I had no problems. I did my work and I paid the guys at the checkpoints a few bucks each day and that was it. I was also here for the invasion of the city (Freetown) as well. In 2000, I took out my first Diamond Dealers License here and have had one almost every year since. Buying rough diamonds is a totally different ball game and I will go into it on another book. It can be extremely profitable or it can bust the bank so you need to be up on a lot of things with it. Polished diamonds are much easier to work with but the money is not as good but it is not as easy to make a serious mistake either. (See a copy of my latest one for 2007 and 2009 below.) Anything I write for the most part is from my firsthand experience in the trade. What I do not know is the real technical aspects of the gemstones. I am a firm believer in knowing what they are composed of and how to test for that composition by SG (specific gravity), Spectroscope and so on is all you need to do what you have to do. Sit back and enjoy the book and if you need any info of any kind let me know and I will answer you immediately. I wait to hear from you and hope you enjoy the book and want to give it a try. The diamonds are there and we can be too with a little money and effort.
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SOME PHOTOS OF DIAMONDS WE HAVE BOUGHT AND SOME THAT WERE BOUGHT BY OTHERS OR MINED BY OTHERS AND MYSELF AND SOME FROM THE COUNTRY THAT I HAVE NO CLUE TO BOUGHT OR FOUND THEM. EYE CANDY YOU CAN SAY.
Star of Sierra Leone- 969 carats. The mother of the gem diamonds found in Sierra Leone. However there are rumors of a 1414ct one found in the Kono area and it was bought and smuggled out of the country which is not unusual there. I feel it is true as I talked to people that were working where it was found and saw the motor bikes and dozer that was bought for the miners that found it.
143.40 carat
55 carats
196 carats
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770 ct Woyie River Diamond
Unknown size
80ct from (Koidu Holdings)
Miscellaneous Parcels
8000 carats from two weeks work at Koidu Holdings
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95 carats of Aries diamonds in 2005
Shumans 4000 carat parcel
My friend, Mustapha Turay, Independent valuer, at the GDO, valuing a fine parcel of diamonds.
Mus has been at the GDO for many years and has been valuing the diamonds for the government there and in other countries for more than 35 years. When I have diamonds to be valued I make sure he handles it for me. He is fair and honest and that is hard to find there. The GDO (Government Diamond Office) was formerly known as the GGDO or Government Gold and Diamond Office. Gregg Lyell gems4u@rocketmail.com http://www.greggsgemhouse.com +240-550-7803
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These look like some very fine diamonds Mus is valuing. If we can find diamonds like these we are doing very well.
You can see from the photo some of the many qualities there are in Sierra Leone and you will notice that are not many industrial or real garbage stones in this parcel. As far as I can tell this is most likely an Exporters parcel as there are all types and shapes whereas myself and others I know that buy for people only want the best in shape, color, size and larger sizes. Exporters buy everything and we do not want that. There seems to be a good number of diamonds of a bit larger than normal as well as a lot of sawables (excellent shapes) in the parcel. Compare the photos above with the ones you see the scammers sending around, in color, shape and size.

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This is very tedious work going through the parcels like this. You have to look at each diamond and sort them by size, color, shape, inclusions and so on. I do not like diamonds that I have to use tweezers with and if I have to use them to pick it up then it is far too small for our purposes.
We hope you enjoyed the photos and the book and I hope to hear from some of you soon. There is money to be made with diamonds and they are not valueless pieces of carbon as the man said in the article above. They are one of Natures finest creations and we should all appreciate them. When you start reading up on the Fancy Colored diamonds you will see then just how expensive they can be and when you can put a 1,000,000 diamond in your watch pocket you will have a greater respect for Nature and what she can do.
Gregg and Yema Lyell Maryland,

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Final Note:
The money that is mentioned in this book can be made but it is not guaranteed. It takes lots of work and knowledge to make it but it can be done. All selling prices for the diamond illustration are from the Rapaport Diamond Sheet of May 15, 2009 with a discount of 15% for the Hearts and Arrows style of diamond cutting and using specific sizes and qualities of rough diamonds. I have enjoyed sharing this information with you and I hope you have enjoyed learning the basics of rough diamond buying. There is much more and that you have to learn and when we go I will show you. I do not want to put all my secrets in this book now. When you buy this book contact me and if we do a buying project I will refund the money to you. This is a project that can be done but it has to be done right. I am ready anytime you are so please contact me at the email or website. Thank you and have a good day Gregg and Yema Lyell September 27, 2009
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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, MISCONCEPTIONS AND OUT RIGHT LIES.

(The lies and misinformation are in BOLD letters and the true facts are in regular print.) 1. There are lots of very large diamonds for sale.
Now and then you find one but not often and they are the exception to the rule. If you are not there with the money you miss it as they will not wait for anyone. There is always a Lebanese ready with the money to buy immediately. I have seen a couple over 400ct but not many and to see one in the 35ct is uncommon as well.
2. You can get top quality like D/IF on every buy and one every street corner.
It is true there are top quality diamonds there but you do not see them all the time and I never expect to find any. If I do and take the time it takes to find them that is ok but you must have the determination, time and money ready to buy and most of all you have to be lucky and have good timing.
3. You can buy diamonds in the 5-50 carat range all the time.
Average diamond size is 2ct in Sierra Leone and the average diamond quality is G/H in color and SI2 in clarity. The larger diamonds you are lied to about are used to get you there to buy and when you get there you will not find them. You will not find anything like they lured there with in the first place as they do not exist.
4. There are courier services to take the diamonds to your home.

Every since I have been living in Sierra Leone, and that has been since 1994, I have never seen a courier service. DHL is there and they have a big sing on their wall saying no diamonds or gold or precious minerals can be shipped by them. Con men will tell you that is can be done but it is a lie, at least to July of 2009 when I was there last.) You buy your diamonds, you have them valued and boxed for shipping with the Kimberley Process papers and you take them with you on the plane and most important of all YOU GIVE THEM TO NO ONE OTHER THAN A MINES PERSONNEL AT THE AIRPORT IF THEY ASK YOU. OTHERWISE NO ONE CAN OPEN THEM AND YOU KEEP THEM. LET NO ONE CARRY THEM FOR YOU AND DO NOT LET ANYONE HOLD THEM. PERIOD!!.
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5. You can trust people to take your diamonds to the airport for you.
See above. None one should ever have your diamonds but you or your representative. Under no circumstances let a local seller take them for you anywhere. When you buy the diamonds you will need to go to the GDO for valuing and you keep them in your possession at all times. Once you have them keep them. Let no one know you have them and take them to office for valuing and then take them home or where ever you are staying in the country. If by chance you are in a hotel like the Bintumani or other good ones ask if they have a safe deposit box and keep them there until you are ready to leave the country. That is the only way to insure you diamonds get where they are going and what you get home with is what you bought. If the person is a major exporter you may let them take them but for the most part keep them yourself. If you are new to the country there is a possibility that who sold you the diamonds (if they are not legit and you will not listen to what I said above) can tell others about you and where you are staying. That is why it is most important that you meet with the right people and dealers when there and not the riff raff and conmen and liars you meet on the street corner with the deal of a lifetime for you. You may well end up with the deal of a life time and end up in prison there or worse. So do it right there or do not do it all.)
6. DIAMONDS ARE CHEAPER IN SIERRA LEONE THAN OTHER PLACES.

This is not true. Diamonds here are some of the highest priced diamonds in the world, if not the highest priced even though the average price is $218 a carat at the GDO.
7. YOU CAN BY CHEAPER THAN THE LEBANESE AS YOU ARE AWHITE MAN OR A FOREIGNER.
This is one story you hear all the time and let me tell you it is total bullshit. Money talks and if yours does not say enough the Lebanese money will sing songs. Selling diamonds is a business and the one that pays the most will get the goods in most cases. The only way you can get them cheaper is to know what diamonds you can bargain with and beat them down. Every seller has his price in mind even if it makes no sense to you or me.

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It is true many diamond miners and others there do not like the Lebanese but when it comes to money theirs is as good as anyones and at times better. It is first come, first served for the most part. Know your business and you may get what you want. Dont know your business and listen to all the crap you hear and get greedy and you are doomed to lose your money and more if not careful.
8. THEY CAN OFFER YOU THOUSANDS OF CARATS OF DIAMONDS AND

ALL IN TOP COLOR AND CLARITY. If you read the info on the exporters above you will see that no one but them has anywhere near the amount of diamonds these scammers advertise. No one and I mean no one has all the top qualities of diamonds they advertise as we. Any diamond dealer advertising rough diamonds from Sierra Leone is lying and that applies to the gold you see on the internet from there as well.
There are many other stories you hear to get your money there but just remember the old saying There aint no free lunch and that is especially true of diamonds in Sierra Leone. I hope you have enjoyed the book and learned something that will make you money or just something that shows you how diamonds are bought in the rough state. If you want to take a trip to Sierra Leone or elsewhere do not hesitate to call and we can talk it over and see the best way to do it. Have a good day and take care and let me know how you like the book. Email me or call if you like and have a good day
Gregg and Yema Lyell August 2010

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Reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the information presented in this book is accurate and up to the date of writing, in March 2010. However, the reader should understand that the information provided does not constitute legal or professional advice of any kind and in some cases may circumvent the law(s) of the country(s) mentioned. The information enclosed is based on personal opinion and experience and to use it is done at your own risk.
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This product (Book) is supplied as is and without warranties. All potential income, express or implied, is hereby disclaimed. Again the information herein is based on actual experience of the products mentioned and not all will achieve the same degree of success. The information is just that, information. This is not a free book and you cannot give it away, copy it or sell it to anyone. Use of this product constitutes acceptance of the No Liability policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you are not permitted to use or distribute this product. Greggs Gems and Mining (www.greggsgemhouse.com) its employees, associates, distributors, agents and professional affiliates shall not be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, consequential loss or damage) directly or indirectly arising from the use of this informational product.
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Now that is out of the way we can continue on with the diamonds that can be found in Mozambique and what is the best way to get them and get home with them.
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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. Niccolo Machiavelli
Gregg Lyell Greggs Gems and Mining Laurel, Md. (Volume 8 in the Gems and Diamond buying books) May 2010
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Introduction to this eBook

Disclaimer
NOTICE 1. Mozambique history courtesy of the US Government. 2. Mozambique info from another source. 3. Visa Information for South Africa and Mozambique. 4. How to get here from there or wherever you may be at the time you need to leave. 5. Excess baggage and how the airlines suck your money on it (Or he says, she says-again. 6. Where to stay when you get to Maputo, the capital city. 7. Flying to the diamond? area of Manica from Maputo and why stay there. 8. Living in Manica with photos. 9. Chimoio with a couple of photos. 10. Diamonds of Manica and price list as of May 2010. 11. Exporting your diamonds home. 12. This is a serious business and the consequences can be extreme if you do not follow the rules. Graphic Illustration of this. 13. Final thoughts on how to do this project. 14. To all that want to buy diamonds in Sierra leone.
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. Baltasar Gracian
Chapters
THERE ARE NO DIAMONDS, IN MOZAMBIQUE, OF MOZAMBIQUE ORIGIN. ALL DIAMONDS HERE ARE BEING SMUGGLED ACROSS THE BORDER FROM
ZIMBABWE. IF YOU WANT TO RUN WITH THE BIG DOGS, READ ON. IF NOT THEN SIT ON THE PORCH AND STAY OUT OF THE WAY.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. Baltasar Gracian
This eBook is another in the series on where and how to buy diamonds and colored gemstones in various parts of the African Continent and, off the beaten trail for the most part. As with all of my books what I say is from personal experience and not necessarily what the government of the country mentioned will say should they read the books. I tell what I know from being in the countries I write about and working with dealers and others in the trade here and watching the business being transacted. It was at a wedding of some friends of ours over three years ago, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, that I was informed of this country and its diamonds, from Zimbabwe. It has taken me this long to find someone with the balls and sense to see what is here to get there and see the business firsthand. True there are a few problems to overcome but if my dealer friends of 14 years are here finally then there is a way. As we say back home where there is a will there is a way. If it could not be done they would not be here. Please look at the last chapter/photo very closely. I had to think long and hard on whether or not to include it in this book. I finally decided you need to realize that this business has its risks as does any business that deals in large sums of money (or what can be perceived as large sums) or items such as diamonds, gold or gemstones of great value. It is important to know that this business is a very profitable one but can be dangerous as well. So think over this and if you still have the inclination to buy diamonds in Mozambique or anywhere then let me know and we can move forward. The last page is not a common occurrence but it can happen if you do not take security extremely seriously. In 13 years of being in the diamond buying business I have had no problems and most people do not but it can happen.
Reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the information presented in this book is accurate and up to the date of writing, in March 2010. However, the reader should understand that the information provided does not constitute legal or professional advice of any kind and in some cases may circumvent the law(s) of the country(s) mentioned. The information enclosed is based on personal opinion and to use it is done at your own risk. You may be breaking the laws of several countries but that is a risk you have to take to get your diamonds are very good prices. NO LIABILITY IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM. This product (Book) is supplied AS IS and without warranties. All potential income, express or implied, is hereby disclaimed. The information herein is based on actual experience of the products mentioned and not all will achieve the same degree of success. The information is just that, information.
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Use of this product constitutes acceptance of the NO LIABILITY policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you are not permitted to use or distribute this product. Greggs Gems and Mining, its employees, associates, distributors, agents and professional affiliates shall not be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, consequential loss or damage, prison time and the such) directly or indirectly arising from the use of this product.
Special Notice for May 2010

We have been informed that the Government of Mozambique has said it is going to Manica, the diamond buying area and will be expelling all people WITHOUT the correct papers. We have them so it does or should not bother us but should you go on your own be sure you know who you are dealing with there. (They did deport 70 non-licensed buyers and confiscated their vehicles, money and gems.)
NOTICE**NOTICE**NOTICE**NOTICE
At this time it is illegal to buy diamonds in Zimbabwe and people have been killed mining and trying to take the diamonds out of that country. That is why all the buyers are sitting here on the border, a few miles from Harare. One or two with big balls and paying huge cola (bribes) are in Harare but for the most part the majority are in Manica. The miners bring the diamonds here (Manica) and the buyers from all over the world buy them. There are Lebanese, American, Jews and Indians here and all are vying for the diamonds and apparently all get what they want or they would not be here and live here. I know several Lebanese from Sierra Leone that have moved here as the prices are far better then back home (Sierra Leone). You know that when the Lebanese dealers that are born and raised, in Sierra Leone, move here and send their families to other countries to live, that the business is good for them here. One good friend of mine has gotten so many diamonds he has opened a cutting factory in and is making much more money now then he did in Sierra Leone. In the diamond business you have to go where the diamonds are to make money and sometimes you bend the rules a bit to do so. Actually I am proud of him. It has taken me 14 years to convince him to buy, cut, polish and sell rather than just buy and sell rough. Better late than never is all I can say. Some people are hard headed and others were always using someone elses money in Belgium, so they could not cut and polish .They had to get the money back to the Moneymen and let them make all of the good money with the diamonds while they took the leftover, so to speak. Zimbabwe will have a Kimberley Process one day soon (maybe) and then the country will open and there will be an exodus of dealers living here (Manica) to move there. Hell, the Chinese have recently built a mile long airstrip in Harare, to take diamonds from the country and they gave the government of Zimbabwe 5 billion dollars as a gift. So I seriously doubt they have any problems taking diamonds from the country. As an interesting note, it is rumored that the Queen of England has a huge stake in platinum mining there and good old George Bush has a lot going on there as well. One Lebanese I was told has made millions of dollars now and loves the country. I would think I would love it as well if I made that kind of money, wouldnt you? Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) was a beautiful place to live until that jerk off Mugabe took over and when he is gone it will hopefully revert back to what it was. But for now if you want the diamonds from there you have to sit here and take them. I have always been amazed that some South African has never topped Mugabe long ago but then again no one ever did Mandela either. I have known several of the South African mercenaries that were in Sierra Leone for the Government in 1997 and I used to ask them about this but they really had no answer to that. When you think of all
the people that were killed and others that died mysteriously under the Apartied regime you have to wonder how they slipped up with those two. So you can say this is a gray area in buying diamonds in Mozambique but one that is very profitable if you know what you are doing and how to do business. More on this later subject later, in the book, on the chapter on Manica, and why you can buy without a lot of problems. Enjoy the book and have a good day and if interested email me and we can put together something soon. Gregg May 2010
1 MOZAMBIQUE INFORMATION AND HISTORY COURTESY OF THE US GOVERNMENT.

OFFICIAL NAME:
Repblica de Moambique
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. Baltasar Gracian
Geography
Area: 308,642 sq. miles; slightly less than twice the size of California. Major cities: Capital--Maputo (pop. 1.094 million--2007 est.); Beira, Matola, Nampula, Quelimane, Tete, Nacala. Terrain: Varies from lowlands to high plateau. Climate: Tropical to subtropical. People Nationality: Noun and adjective--Mozambican(s). Population (2009 est.): 20.226 million; 48.2% male and 51.8% female. Population annual growth rate (2009): 1.9%. Ethnic groups: Makhuwa, Tsonga, Makonde, Shangaan, Shona, Sena, Ndau, and other indigenous groups, and approximately 10,000 Europeans, 35,000 Euro-Africans, and 15,000 South Asians. Religions: Christian 40%, Muslim 20%, indigenous African and other beliefs 40% (1997 census-recent estimates give a higher Muslim percentage). Languages: Portuguese (official), various indigenous languages. Education: Mean years of schooling (adults over 25): men 2.1, women 1.2. Primary net enrollment rate (2005)--78%. Adult illiteracy rate (2008)--52.2%. Health: Infant mortality rate (2007)--115/1,000. Life expectancy (2007)--42.07 years. Work force (9.4 million est. 2006): Agriculture--81%; industry--6%; services--13% (1997 estimate). www.greggsgemhouse.com gems4u@rocketmail.com skype:gregglyell
GOVERNMENT
Type: Multi-party democracy. Independence: June 25, 1975. Constitution: November 1990. Branches: Executive--President, Council of Ministers. Legislative--National Assembly, municipal assemblies. Judicial--Supreme Court, provincial, district, and municipal courts. Administrative subdivisions: 10 provinces, 224 districts, and 33 municipalities, of which Maputo City is the largest. Political parties: Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO); Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO); Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM); numerous small parties. Suffrage: Universal adult, 18 years and older.
ECONOMY
GDP: $17.64 billion. Annual economic (GDP) growth rate (2008): 6.5%. Per capita gross domestic product (2008): $956. Natural resources: Hydroelectric power, coal, natural gas, titanium ore, tantalite, graphite, iron ore, semi-precious stones, and arable land. Agriculture (21% of GDP; annual growth 7.9%): Exports--cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea, cassava (tapioca), corn, coconuts, sisal, citrus and tropical fruits, potatoes, sunflowers, beef and poultry. Domestically consumed food crops--corn, pigeon peas, cassava, rice, beef, pork, chicken, and goat. Industry (31% of GDP; annual growth 10%): Types--food, beverages, chemicals (fertilizer, soap, paints), aluminum, petroleum products, textiles, cement, glass, asbestos, and tobacco. Services (39.7% of GDP; annual growth 4.7%). Trade: Imports (2008)--$3.29 billion. Import commodities--machinery and equipment, vehicles, fuel, chemicals, metal products, foodstuffs and textiles. Main suppliers--South Africa, Netherlands, Portugal. Exports (2008)--$2.7 billion. Export commodities--aluminum, cashews, prawns, cotton, sugar, citrus, timber, bulk electricity, natural gas. Main markets--Belgium, South Africa, Zimbabwe.
PEOPLE
Mozambique's major ethnic groups encompass numerous subgroups with diverse languages, dialects, cultures, and histories. Many are linked to similar ethnic groups living in neighboring countries. The north-central provinces of Zambezia and Nampula are the most populous, with about 45% of the population. The estimated 4 million Makhuwa are the dominant group in the northern part of the country. The Sena and Ndau are prominent in the Zambezi valley, and the Tsonga and Shangaan dominate in southern Mozambique. Despite the influence of Islamic coastal traders and European colonizers, the people of Mozambique have largely retained an indigenous culture based on small-scale agriculture. Mozambique's most highly developed art forms are wood sculpture, for which the Makonde in northern Mozambique are particularly renowned, and dance. The middle and upper classes continue to be heavily influenced by the Portuguese colonial and linguistic heritage. During the colonial era, Christian missionaries were active in Mozambique, and many foreign clergy remain in the country. According to the national census, about 40% of the population is Christian, at least 20% is Muslim, and the remainder adheres to traditional beliefs. Under the colonial regime, educational opportunities for black Mozambicans were limited, and 93% of that population was illiterate. In fact, most of today's political leaders were educated in missionary schools. After independence, the government placed a high priority on expanding education, which reduced the illiteracy rate to about two-thirds of the population, as primary school enrollment increased. Unfortunately, in recent years school construction and teacher training enrollments have not kept up with population growth. With post-war enrollments reaching all-time highs, the quality of education has suffered.
HISTORY
Mozambique's first inhabitants were San hunter and gatherers, ancestors of the Khoisani peoples. Between the first and fourth centuries AD, waves of Bantu-speaking peoples migrated from the north through the Zambezi River valley and then gradually into the plateau and coastal areas. The Bantu were farmers and ironworkers. When Portuguese explorers reached Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries. From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts became regular ports of call on the new route to the East. Later, traders and prospectors penetrated the interior regions, seeking gold and slaves. Although Portuguese influence gradually expanded, its power was limited and exercised through individual settlers who were granted extensive autonomy. As a result, investment lagged while Lisbon devoted itself to the more lucrative trade with India and the Far East and to the colonization of Brazil. By the early 20th century the Portuguese had shifted the administration of much of the country to large private companies, controlled and financed mostly by the British, which established railroad lines to neighboring countries and supplied cheap--often forced--African labor to the mines and plantations of the nearby British colonies and South Africa. Because policies were designed to benefit white settlers and the Portuguese homeland, little attention was paid to Mozambique's national integration, its economic infrastructure, or the skills of its population. After World War II, while many European nations were granting independence to their colonies, Portugal clung to the concept that Mozambique and other Portuguese possessions were overseas provinces of the mother country, and emigration to the colonies soared. Mozambique's Portuguese population at the time of independence was about 250,000. The drive for Mozambican independence developed apace, and in 1962 several anti-colonial political groups formed the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO), which initiated an armed campaign against Portuguese colonial rule in September 1964. After 10 years of sporadic warfare and major political changes in Portugal, Mozambique became independent on June 25, 1975. The last 30 years of Mozambique's history have reflected political developments elsewhere in the 20th century. Following the April 1974 coup in Lisbon, Portuguese colonialism collapsed. In Mozambique, the military decision to withdraw occurred within the context of a decade of armed anti-colonial struggle, initially led by American-educated Eduardo Mondlane, who was assassinated in 1969.
When independence was achieved in 1975, the leaders of FRELIMO's military campaign rapidly established a one-party state allied to the Soviet bloc and outlawed rival political activity. FRELIMO eliminated political pluralism, religious educational institutions, and the role of traditional authorities. The new government gave shelter and support to South African (ANC) and Zimbabwean (ZANU) liberation movements while the governments of first Rhodesia and later apartheid South Africa fostered and financed an armed rebel movement in central Mozambique called the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO). Civil war, sabotage from neighboring states, and economic collapse characterized the first decade of Mozambican independence. Also marking this period were the mass exodus of Portuguese nationals, weak infrastructure, nationalization, and economic mismanagement. During most of the civil war, the government was unable to exercise effective control outside of urban areas, many of which were cut off from the capital. An estimated 1 million Mozambicans perished during the civil war, 1.7 million took refuge in neighboring states, and several million more were internally displaced. In the third FRELIMO party congress in 1983, President Samora Machel conceded the failure of socialism and the need for major political and economic reforms. He died, along with several advisers, in a suspicious 1986 plane crash. His successor, Joaquim Chissano, continued the reforms and began peace talks with RENAMO. The new constitution enacted in 1990 provided for a multi-party political system, market-based economy, and free elections. The civil war ended in October 1992 with the Rome General Peace Accords. Under supervision of the ONUMOZ peacekeeping force of the United Nations, peace returned to Mozambique. By mid-1995 the more than 1.7 million Mozambican refugees who had sought asylum in neighboring Malawi, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Zambia, Tanzania, and South Africa as a result of war and drought had returned, as part of the largest repatriation witnessed in Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, a further estimated 4 million internally displaced people returned to their areas of origin.
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS

Mozambique is a constitutional democracy with an estimated population of 20 million. The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) has been the ruling political party since independence in 1975, heavily influencing both policymaking and implementation. While civilian authorities generally maintain effective control of the security forces, there have been some instances in which elements of the security forces acted independently. In 1994 the country held its first democratic elections. Joaquim Chissano was elected President with 53% of the vote, and a 250-member National Assembly was voted in with 129 FRELIMO deputies, 112 RENAMO deputies, and 9 representatives of three smaller parties that formed the Democratic Union (UD). By 1999, more than one-half (53%) of the legislation passed originated in the Assembly. After some delays, in 1998 the country held its first local elections to provide for local representation and some budgetary authority at the municipal level. The principal opposition party, RENAMO, boycotted the local elections, citing flaws in the registration process. Independent slates contested the elections and won seats in municipal assemblies. Turnout was very low. In the aftermath of the 1998 local elections, the government resolved to make more accommodations to the opposition's procedural concerns for the second round of multiparty national elections in 1999. Working through the National Assembly, the electoral law was rewritten and passed by consensus in December 1998. Financed largely by international donors, a very successful voter registration was conducted from July to September 1999, providing voter registration cards to 85% of the potential electorate (more than 7 million voters). The second general elections were held December 3-5, 1999, with high voter turnout.. Both the opposition and observers subsequently cited flaws in the tabulation process that, International and domestic observers agreed that the voting process was well organized and went smoothly had they not occurred, might have changed the outcome. In the end, however, international and domestic observers concluded that the close result of the vote reflected the will of the people. The second local elections, involving 33 municipalities with some 2.4 million registered voters, took place in November 2003. This was the first time that FRELIMO, RENAMO-UE, and independent parties competed without significant boycotts. The 24% turnout was well above the 15% turnout in the first municipal elections.
FRELIMO won 28 mayoral positions and the majority in 29 municipal assemblies, while RENAMO won 5 mayoral positions and the majority in 4 municipal assemblies. The voting was conducted without violent incidents. However, the period immediately after the elections was marked by objections about voter and candidate registration and vote tabulation, as well as calls for greater transparency. The third general elections occurred on December 1-2, 2004. FRELIMO candidate Armando Guebuza won with 64% of the popular vote. His opponent, Afonso Dhlakama of RENAMO, received 32% of the popular vote. The estimated 44% turnout was well below the almost 70% turnout in the 1999 general elections. FRELIMO won 160 seats in Parliament. A coalition of RENAMO and several small parties won the 90 remaining seats. Armando Guebuza was inaugurated as the President of Mozambique on February 2, 2005. Elections in Mozambiques 43 municipalities took place on November 19, 2008. FRELIMO mayoral candidates won in 42 of the 43 contests. On October 28, 2009 Mozambique held simultaneous presidential, legislative, and provincial assembly elections. The results were much the same as 2004 with FRELIMO candidate Armando Guebuza winning 75% of the presidential vote and Afonso Dhlakama of RENAMO coming in second with nearly 14%; 9.28% of the votes were won by Daviz Simango of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM). Formed in early 2009 by incumbent Mayor of Beira and former RENAMO rising star Daviz Simango, MDM represented the largest new face in the 2009 elections. Almost two months prior to election day, the National Elections Commission (CNE) released the list of eligible parties for the three races. Alleging missing registration documentation, CNE excluded multiple opposition parties, most notably MDM, from running in the National Assembly and provincial assembly electoral process. MDM, now excluded from 7 of 11 provinces due to CNEs decision, appealed to the Mozambican Constitutional Council, which in turn upheld CNEs ruling. Amidst rumors of FRELIMO ties to both the Constitutional Council and CNE, the donor community voiced unified concern regarding the transparency of Mozambiques multi-party elections. Election day itself was considered well-run, peaceful, and generally well-organized, and most scrutiny was directed toward the pre-election decisions by the CNE and Constitutional Council.
Despite the government's strong anticorruption rhetoric, corruption in the executive and legislative branches was widely perceived to be endemic in 2009. The World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators reflected that corruption was a serious problem, with no change in ranking from the previous year. For the second year running, the country dropped in Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perception Index (from 126 to 130), indicating that corruption remained rampant. Petty corruption by low-level government officials to supplement low incomes, and high-level corruption by a small group of politically and economically connected elites continued to be the norm. Corruption largely resulted from a lack of checks and balances, minimal accountability, and a culture of impunity. Local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as the Center for Public Integrity, and media groups continued to be the main civic forces fighting corruption, reporting and investigating numerous corruption cases. The law requires that all members of the government declare and deposit their assets with the Constitutional Council, but does not require that such information be made available to the general public.
PRINCIPAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

President--Armando Guebuza Prime Minister--Aires Bonifcio Baptista Ali Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation--Oldemiro Baloi Minister of Finance--Manuel Chang Minister of National Defense--Filipe Jacinto Nyussi Minister of the Interior--Jose Pacheco Minister of Industry and Commerce--Antonio Fernando Minister of Justice--Maria Benvinda Levi Minister of Agriculture--Soares Nhaca Minister in the Presidency for Diplomatic Affairs--Francisco Caetano Madeira Mozambique maintains an embassy in the United States at 1525 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036; tel: 202-293-7146; fax: 202-835-0245.
ECONOMY
ALLEVIATING POVERTY. At the end of the civil war in 1992, Mozambique ranked among the poorest countries in the world. It still ranks among the least developed nations with very low socioeconomic indicators. In the last decade, however, Mozambique has experienced a notable economic recovery. Per capita GDP in 2008 was estimated at U.S. $956, a significant increase over the mid-1980s level of U.S. $120. With high foreign debt and a good track record on economic reform, Mozambique was the first African nation and sixth country worldwide to qualify for debt relief under the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) initial HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) Initiative. In April 2000, Mozambique qualified for the Enhanced HIPC program and reached its completion point in September 2001. This led to the Paris Club members agreeing in November 2001 to substantially reduce the remaining bilateral debt, resulting in the complete forgiveness of a considerable volume of bilateral debt. The United States already finished the process and has forgiven Mozambique's debt. During their summit in Scotland in July 2005, the G8 nations agreed to significant multilateral debt relief for the world's least developed nations. On December 21, 2005, the IMF formalized the complete cancellation of all Mozambican IMF debt contracted prior to January 1, 2005, worth U.S. $153 million. In July 2006, the World Bank announced it was writing off $1.3 billion, all Mozambican debt to the World Bank contracted before January 1, 2005, as part of the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). In 2007, under MDRI, the IMF wrote off $153 million in Mozambican debt, and the African Development Bank wrote off $370 million. As a result of the debt relief it has received, the Government of Mozambiques outstanding debt stock has fallen from 25% of GDP in 2005 to under 12 % of GDP today, or well below debt distress thresholds according to the IMF. Mozambiques GDP is $17.64 billion.
REBOUNDING GROWTH.
The resettlement of civil war refugees, political stability, and continuing economic reforms have led to a high economic growth rate. Between 1994 and 2006, average annual GDP growth was approximately 8%. Mozambique achieved this growth rate even though the devastating floods of 2000 slowed GDP growth to 2.1%. As of 2008, the average growth rate was at 6.5%. Although the Bank of Mozambique reported relatively stable rates of 6.1% for 2009 and 6.3% for 2010, the IMFs projections of a 4.5% average growth rate for 2009 and 5.5% for 2010 were generally accepted at years end. Future strong expansion requires continued economic reforms, major foreign direct investment, and the resurrection of the agriculture, transportation, and tourism sectors. Focusing on economic growth in the agricultural sector is a major challenge for the government. Although more than 80% of the population engages in small-scale agriculture, the sector suffers from inadequate infrastructure, commercial networks, and investment. However, a majority of Mozambique's arable land is still uncultivated, leaving room for considerable growth.
LOW INFLATION.
The government's tight control of spending and the money supply, combined with financial sector reform, successfully reduced inflation from 70% in 1994 to less than 5% in 1998-1999. Economic disruptions resulting from the devastating floods of 2000 caused inflation to jump to 12.7% that year. The government is still working to bring inflation down to those lower numbers. In 2004 inflation was 9.1%; in 2005 it climbed to 11.2%; in 2006 it dropped back down to 9.4%. For the period of January-October 2009, the Ministry of Finance reported an inflation rate of 1.4%, which was down from 6.2% during the same period in the year prior. As of November 2009, the floating exchange rate was approximately 29.1 meticais per dollar. (Note: In July 2006 the government revised its currency, dropping three zeros. Thus a coin formerly worth 1,000 meticais was from then on worth only one metical. And thus, where a dollar previously had been worth, for example, 26,000 meticais, it was from July onward worth 26.)
EXTENSIVE ECONOMIC REFORM.

Economic reform has been extensive. More than 1,200 state-owned enterprises (mostly small) have been privatized. Preparations for privatization and/or sector liberalization are underway for the remaining parastatals, including telecommunications, electricity, ports, and the railroads. The government frequently selects a strategic foreign investor when privatizing a parastatal. Additionally, customs duties have been reduced, and customs management has been streamlined and reformed. The government introduced a value-added tax in 1999 as part of its efforts to increase domestic revenues.
IMPROVING TRADE IMBALANCE.

Mozambique imported $134 million in goods from the U.S. in 2008 ($213 million in 2007), mainly cereal, petroleum oils, and petroleum coke. Year to date exports from the U.S. are approximately $77 million. During the same period, Mozambique exported $9 million worth of goods to the U.S. ($17 million in 2007), and $26 million year to date for 2009. Support programs provided by foreign donors and private financing of foreign direct investment mega-projects and their associated raw materials have largely compensated for balance-of-payment shortfalls. The medium-term outlook for exports is encouraging, as a number of recent foreign investment projects have improved the trade balance. This export growth is expected to continue. MOZAL I, a large aluminum smelter that commenced production in mid-2000, greatly expanded Mozambique's trade volume. In April 2001, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) approved financing assistance for MOZAL II, which doubled overall production capacity. Phase two went online in April 2003, five months ahead of schedule, using primarily Mozambican workers during construction. Traditional Mozambican exports include cashews, shrimp, fish, copra, sugar, cotton, tea, and citrus and exotic fruits. Most of these industries are being rehabilitated. In addition, Mozambique is less dependent upon imports for basic food and manufactured goods as the result of steady increases in local production. Mozambique has taken little advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, and overall U.S. import of Mozambican product has fluctuated wildly from $25 million in 1998 to $5 million in 2007. www.greggsgemhouse.com gems4u@rocketmail.com skype:gregglyell
SADC TRADE PROTOCOL.

In December 1999, the Mozambican Council of Ministers approved the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Trade Protocol. The Protocol will create a free trade zone among more than 200 million consumers in the SADC region. Implementation of the Protocol began in 2002 and had an overall zero-tariff target set for 2008; however, Mozambique's country-specific zero-tariff goal is currently 2015. Mozambique joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) on August 26, 1995.
FOREIGN RELATIONS
While allegiances dating back to the liberation struggle remain relevant, Mozambique's foreign policy has become increasingly pragmatic. The twin pillars of Mozambique's foreign policy are maintenance of good relations with its neighbors and maintenance and expansion of ties to development partners. During the 1970s and early 1980s, Mozambique's foreign policy was inextricably linked to the struggles for majority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa, as well as superpower competition and the Cold War. Mozambique's decision to enforce UN sanctions against Rhodesia and deny that country access to the sea led Ian Smith's regime to undertake overt and covert actions to destabilize the country, including sponsoring the rebel group RENAMO. After the change of government in Zimbabwe in 1980, the apartheid regime in South Africa continued to finance the destabilization of Mozambique. The 1984 Nkomati Accord, while failing in its goal of ending South African support to RENAMO, opened initial diplomatic contacts between the Mozambican and South African Governments. This process gained momentum with South Africa's elimination of apartheid, which culminated in the establishment of full diplomatic relations in October 1993. While relations with neighboring Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania show occasional strains, Mozambique's ties to these countries remain strong. In the years immediately following its independence, Mozambique benefited from considerable assistance from some western countries, notably the Scandinavians. Moscow and its allies, however, became Mozambique's primary economic, military, and political supporters and its foreign policy reflected this linkage.
This began to change in 1983; in 1984 Mozambique joined the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Western aid quickly replaced Soviet support, with the Scandinavians, the United States, the Netherlands, and the European Union becoming increasingly important sources of development assistance. Italy also maintains a profile in Mozambique as a result of its key role during the peace process. Relations with Portugal, the former colonial power, are complex and of some importance as Portuguese investors play a visible role in Mozambique's economy. Mozambique is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and ranks among the moderate members of the African Bloc in the United Nations and other international organizations. Mozambique also belongs to the Organization of African Unity/African Union and the Southern African Development Community. In 1994, the government became a full member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, in part to broaden its base of international support but also to please the country's sizeable Muslim population. Similarly, in early 1996 Mozambique joined its Anglophone neighbors in the Commonwealth. In the same year, Mozambique became a founding member and the first President of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), and maintains close ties with other Lusophone states.
U.S.-MOZAMBICAN RELATIONS
Relations between the United States and Mozambique are good and steadily improving. By 1993, U.S. aid to Mozambique was prominent, due in part to significant emergency food assistance in the wake of the 1991-93 southern African drought, but more importantly in support of the peace and reconciliation process. During the process leading up to elections in October 1994, the United States served as a significant financier and member of the most important commissions established to monitor implementation of the Rome General Peace Accords. The United States is the largest bilateral donor to the country and plays a leading role in donor efforts to assist Mozambique. The U.S. Embassy opened in Maputo on November 8, 1975, and the first American ambassador arrived in March 1976. In that same year, the United States extended a $10 million grant to the Government of Mozambique to help compensate for the economic costs of enforcing sanctions against Rhodesia. In 1977, however, largely motivated by a concern with human rights violations, the U.S. Congress prohibited the provision of development aid to Mozambique without a presidential certification that such aid would be in the foreign policy interests of the United States. Relations hit a nadir in March 1981, when the Government of Mozambique expelled four members of the U.S. Embassy staff. In response, the United States suspended plans to provide development aid and to name a new ambassador to Mozambique. Relations between the two countries languished in a climate of stagnation and mutual suspicion. Contacts between the two countries continued in the early 1980s as part of the U.S. administration's conflict resolution efforts in the region. In late 1983, a new U.S. ambassador arrived in Maputo, and the first Mozambican envoy to the United States arrived in Washington, signaling a thaw in the bilateral relationship. The United States subsequently responded to Mozambique's economic reform and drift away from Moscow's embrace by initiating an aid program in 1984. President Samora Machel paid a symbolically important official working visit to the United States in 1985, where he met President Reagan. After that meeting, a full U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission was established, and significant assistance for economic reform efforts began. President Chissano met with President George W. Bush in September 2003; previously, he had met with Presidents Reagan
(October 1987), George H.W. Bush (March 1990), and Clinton (November 1998), and also with Secretaries of State Powell (February 2002) and Baker (July 1992). Since taking office in February 2005, President Guebuza has visited the United States on five occasions. In June 2005, President Guebuza visited Washington, DC to take part in President Bush's mini-summit on Africa, along with the leaders of Ghana, Namibia, Botswana, and Niger. Later that month, he attended the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) Business Summit in Baltimore. President Guebuza returned in September 2005 for the UN General Assembly in New York and in December 2005 attended the Fourth Development Cooperation Forum at the Carter Center in Atlanta. In 2006 he visited New York for the UN General Assembly, and in 2007 he visited Washington, DC for the signing of Mozambique's Millennium Challenge Corporation compact. Visits to the U.S. by both President Guebuza and Foreign Minister Baloi continued during 2008.
PRINCIPAL U.S. EMBASSY OFFICIALS

Ambassador--Leslie V. Rowe Deputy Chief of Mission--Todd Chapman USAID Mission Director--Todd Amani Public Affairs Officer--Tobias Bradford Defense Attache--Lt. Col. Andrew Olsen Peace Corps Director--Ruben Hernandez Centers for Disease Control Director--Lisa Nelson Management Officer--Jeremey Neitzke Regional Security Officer--Harland Rex Economic/Political Chief--Matthew Roth Consular Officer--Sarah Horton Millennium Challenge Corporation Country Director--Cassia Carvalho-Pacheco The U.S. Embassy is located at 193 Avenida Kenneth Kaunda; P.O. Box 783; tel: (258-21) 49-27-97, after hours (258-21) 49-07-23; fax: (258-21) 49-01-14. USAID Mission: Av. 25 de Setembro (Predio JAT); tel: (258-21) 352-000, after hours (258-21) 49-16-77; fax: (258-21) 352-100. The Public Affairs Office/Martin Luther King Library: 542 Avenida Mao Tse Tung; tel: (258-21) 49-19-16; fax: (258-21) 49-19-18.
SECURITY INFORMATION
The security situation in Mozambique requires caution. Street crime and carjackings in urban areas occur frequently. Road travel can be hazardous and should not be undertaken after daylight hours. The abundance of weapons remaining from the country's civil war and the lack of well-trained, equipped, and motivated law enforcement officers all contribute to a serious crime situation. Additionally, several hundred thousand mines were planted throughout Mozambique during the last three decades of conflict. Although mine clearing operations are underway, surface travel off main highways should be approached with caution. Before visiting Mozambique, consult the Country Specific Information. Visit the Consular Section of the embassy after arrival to register and to receive important security updates.
TRAVEL AND BUSINESS INFORMATION

When you are traveling to any country check with the US State Departments Travel advisory at http://www.travel.state.gov They will tell you what is going on or what they think is going on in any country. Take it with a grain of salt unless you know for sure about any country. In Sierra Leone they said it was not safe to go there for years after it was safe. I know as I lived there through most of the war and until 2009. I suppose they want to err on the side of safety but check it on your own as well. You can use U.S.dollars to buy diamonds or the local Meticais. Most people use dollars and that is the easiest way to buy. To buy all the food and other things there use the local Meticais. They call the Meticais metacash.
2. More info from a local source on Mozambique

The Republic of Mozambique (Repblica de Moambique), in southeastern Africa, borders the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the nortwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest; its long coastline attracts scuba divers, fishermen, sailors and beach lovers. The first inhabitants of this area were San hunters and gatherers, ancestors of the Khoisani peoples; between the first and fourth centuries AD, waves of Bantu-speaking peoples, farmers and ironworkers, migrated from the north through the Zambezi River valley. When the Portuguese explorers reached Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries; after 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts became regular ports of call on the new route to the east. After more than ten years of war against the Portuguese rule, Mozambique became independent on June 25, 1975; a civil war erupted and lasted until 1992; since then, Mozambique has worked hard to enhance the living conditions and the quality of life in all respects; tourism is one of the main resources. Mozambique is divided into ten provinces (provncias), which are themselves divided into districts (distritos); the capital, Maputo, enjoys provincial status; the ten provinces are Cabo Delgado, Gaza, Inhambane, Manica, Maputo, Nampula, Niassa, Sofala, Tete and Zambzia. The main cities are the capital, Maputo, the port city of Beira and Nampula; other tourist attractions are the Mozambique Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the beach resorts of Pemba and the Bazaruto archipelago, the diving and camping sites of Ponta do Ouro (Maputo) and Tofo beach (Inhambane) and the pretty historic city of Inhambane. The Gorongosa National Park, in Sofala, teams with wildlife and precious biodiversity and is one of the main destinations.
3. VISA INFORMATION FOR SOUTH AFRICA AND MOZAMBIQUE.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. Baltasar Gracian
American citizens do not need to get a visa ahead of time. When you get to South Africa and Johannesburg Airport they will issue a Visa with no problems and it is free. (Johannesburg is free, Mozambique is not. See below.) When you get to Maputo you get one for $25. It is simple and they do not ask any questions. I had to pay an extra $60 for something or other but I was told it was a onetime fee and would not be charged again. In Maputo it is a onetime entry and when you go out you have to get another one to come back in. (I understand that you can get one at a Mozambique Embassy in your country for 3 months and the one you get here is for a month and is renewable with no problem.) Be sure to keep an eye on your time there as it cost me $150 as I was a couple of days late when I went to Swaziland even though we had arranged to get another one before my first one ran out. So we pissed away $200 in Maputo on something that was useless to us. When you get to the airport in Maputo you see about four different lines to get into. One is for local residents, one is for foreign residents with a visa, and one is for foreign residents without a visa, one for non residents. I could not really figure out what they were talking about or what line to get into
and in the end it did not matter. If you need a visa you go around the main line to a shorter line and they give the visa to you. Then to further confuse me, which does not take much at times, an immigration man had a lot of us get into a line that had nothing to do with what the lines were supposed to be about. Oh well it made things go faster. So it is a painless process and I did not see anyone with their hands out looking for tips as you get in Sierra Leone. That was refreshing to say the least.
Angolan 9.57ct diamond that made its way to Mozambique. This diamond cut to a 3.20ct K color and VVS2 polished diamond.
4 How to get here from here or wherever you may be at the time you need to leave.
It seems all roads lead to South Africa first and then to here. I came from Dulles, in Washington, Dc and made a stop in the UK. From there we go to Johannesburg. (It is about 7.5 hours flight to South Africa.). There is a 3 hour or so wait to take the flight to Maputo and that flight is only about an hour or so. You can also fly to Harare and take a transport here as well. Once here in Maputo you have to wait until the next day to take the flight to Chimino which is about an hour. You stop at Beira for a 10 minute refueling and then to Chimino. From Chimino you have someone pick you up and bring you to Manica which is about 45 minutes away. A small note here. You may wait a day longer all depending on what is going on with the airlines so expect a minimum of one day in Maputo no matter what. The hotels are not bad and are about $100+ a day for a decent one with A/C and television. I have stayed in far worse places and paid more, so it is ok. Option 2: There is one other way and that is to come through Harare and then find a transport down to Manica. It is a few hours but not bad so I hear. Harare is not as bad as the press makes it out to be and there were a lot of white folks going there when I was waiting in JoBerg (Johannesburg) for the flight to Maputo.
The one thing I have learned from costly experience is that the airlines are not in the business of helping you save any money on your baggage. As most of you know from my books I lived in Sierra Leone for 12 years and used to take Astraeus airline back and forth to the UK. They allow you to take 30 kilos or so and two bags if I remember right. So on your way back home, wherever that may be, you load up on all the goodies like wood carvings, Kinte (sic) Cloth from Ghana and so on. You go roaring into the UK and then onto your connecting flight and then the shit hits the fan. So I have all my goodies and two bags and a carryon bag for my laptop and they look at me like I just came from the moon or something. Hey big boy what the hell do you think you are doing with two bags and how dare you have the balls to have 10 kilos too much. Are you sick up the head or what? So now you have to go through all the trouble to explain that this airline let me take this and now you are saying I cannot and what the fuck is wrong you people anyway? Is this a conspiracy between airlines to get extra money from us travelers and then at the end of the month you split the cash taken in? Ok, so after losing that battle and either repacking your bags on the floor of the airport or just tossing a lot of the goods in the trash can you head home and hope you have learned another valuable and costly lesson. Now flash forward to 2010. All over the television you see where the airlines are going to charge $25 extra for excess baggage. Fine I can live with that. So I pack my two bags that I always take and head for the airlines check in counter for my latest trip to Mozambique and elsewhere. I get to the airport and get ready to check in and I notice something a bit different. No, not the new scanners and all that crap. NO ONE HAS MORE THAN ONE BAG BUT ME!! So all I can think of is well I fucked myself again. Those lying fucking people that say you can travel with two bags on international flights can kiss my ass under the cotton tree in Freetown.
5 Important things to know about excess baggage and sly ass airlines rules that suck your money on it.
SHE SAYS, HE SAYS

(Part1)
So I get to the counter with my $25 for the extra bag and the woman says what is that money for? I say for the extra bag, kind lady. She starts laughing and I knew I was in the shit again. (It kind of reminded me one time when I was about to laid and the woman had the balls to look my talleywhacker/Johnson/Pecker ((or whatever it is called now in this fucking politically correct society I live in) and say what are you going to do with that small thing? I said I am going to have fun so you may as well enjoy it as well. That woman did not laugh quite that much but damn close. What the laughing goofy woman did not know is I can lick my eyebrows) Back to modern days now and the story in this century.) She says fork over $60 big boy I say for what? She says that is the fee now and there aint no frigging second bag allowed anymore unless you pay for excess. I say what about the ads on television and the $23 more for the extra bag? and she starts laughing again and tells me it is not her television ad. She is starting to sound like a fucking laughing hyena now. What can I do? Since that is their flat rate for excess I have to pay it or leave it. Ok I take my lumps and pay it. But that is not the end of the story in Heathrow. The lady, who has barely stopped laughing at the stupid American, says: We usually check these through to Maputo but since you are having extra baggage and changing countries and airlines it will be cheaper to pick them up in Joberg and then check them in again. So I ask: How much will it cost if you check them through? So she checks with one of her cohorts and says as much as 400. Well you can imagine what I said: WTF??? What the fuck are you talking about? $700 to take 14kilos extra? All of you fuckers are crazy in this country and I will not fly with you again. I am glad we kicked the shit out of you in 1776 ! So I paid the $60 bucks and got my bags in Joberg. It actually cost 550 rand or $71 thereabouts. That was a lot cheaper than $700 . And I will most likely fly again with them but I could not just stand there and say nothing. Typical American prick I guess or just me being me
Flight to Maputo
Ok, it is now the next day after 7.5 hours of flying and I have sat in the airport my required three hours and I am ready to leave for Maputo. I have paid my excess baggage of $71 and think I am ok for now. I get to Maputo and am met by a travel agent friend of mine who takes me to the hotel where I will spend the night. The hotel costs $100. That is ok as I knew ahead of time the cost. I get settled in and go to eat at the restaurant in the hotel. I take the buffet and eat about four spoons of food as I am not very hungry. I go to pay the bill and it is 600 Meticais or $20. I started to ask how the hell that little amount of food cost so much but did not. I was tired of arguing with people on this trip and I had not even started it yet. (That $20 was more than the buffet in the Holiday Inn in London and not as much or as good. I guess one of these days I will learn to ask first and then buy what I want.)
Flight to Chimoio
I am not sure how you will say the name of this town but I use the following phonetic way. I call the town chi moi yo some seem to say she moi yo as well. The plane leaves at 7am so we are there buy 630am. I go to the check in and of course I have the extra bag which costs me about $30. Ok, I am not going to whine about that this time. But this time my carryon bag can only be 7 kilos! Shit it weighed about 13 kilos. It was a brand new bag my partner got for me with spiffy wheels and so on and very nice and expensive. The main problem is that it most likely weighed about 7 pounds on its own.
SHE SAYS, HE SAYS

(Part2)
So she says do you have a computer in the bag? I say yes dont we all? She says take it out and we will weigh the bag again We weigh the bag again and it is still overweight as I knew it would be. She says take this slip of paper to the overweight counter and pay for the extra weight and carry the computer on the plane with you. I ask cant I just put it back in the bag as I am paying for the excess baggage anyway. She says, no you have to carry it on the plane. I say what the hell the difference is if the piece of shit computer is in my lap or in the bag as the weight is the same? She mumbles something, most likely about dumb ass Americans and their attitudes. She was very pretty but if she would have been a white girl she would have been a blond, no doubt! What I do know is that when I leave here I will be leaving the fancy bag behind and about one third of the items I brought. I am tired of paying for the extra baggage and arguing with everyone in the countries I have to go through. My plan was to take about 5 pants, shirts and shorts and some books and a few tools to test gemstones with and only have one suitcase and the carry-on bag. But since the best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray mine went so far astray they are lost forever. So I go back with less even if I have to buy more things later when I get home.
So on day I will master the art of getting where I want to go with a minimum of bullshit and extra costs. Then again maybe not! Have you ever heard of this saying before: If I had all the peckers coming out of me that have gone into me, I would look a porcupine? Well that seems to be me. I just cannot seem to stop sticking a pecker into myself at every turn. I guess we live and learn but fuck, I wish I could learn a bit more than live, if you know what I mean. But since practice makes perfect maybe one day I will master the art of traveling and save me time and money and keep my blood pressure near where it is supposed to be.
(I think I look like this at times and those arent quills on his back )
6 WHERE WE STAY WHEN WE GET TO MAPUTO, THE CAPITAL CITY.

There are many places to stay in Maputo and the hotel where we stay is very good as I mentioned earlier. Prices on hotels range from $100 a night to $250 a night for good hotels. Of course you can get cheaper but I prefer someplace that has all I need. They claim to be 4 and 5 star but I doubt they will hold a candle to the Intercontinental in any country I have been to. As long as they are clean and most everything works you will be fine in any of them. Maputo has beaches as well so you can get on the beach. We stay in the VIP Hotel, near the Maputo Shopping Center and it is very good. Business rates are $120 a day and they have a Business Center downstairs near the lobby and have free wireless internet access in the room.
The VIP Grand Maputo Hotel is located in Maputos Bay, in one of the most prestigious commercial avenues, the Avenida 25 de Setembro. The Hotel is close to the main government departments and embassies and just 15 minutes away from Mavalanes International Airport. In the same avenue, and just a few meters from the Hotel, you can visit the Exhibition Pavilion of FACIM. The VIP Grand Maputo Hotel has 196 modern rooms including 12 suites. All rooms are decorated in a practical and comfortable style, suitable for both leisure and business stays. The Hotel has also 6 conference rooms with a capacity for 15 up to 250 people, all completely equipped. A new congress centre with a capacity for 1000 people is also within the infrastructure of the hotel. There are other hotels that are very nice and some are on the ocean as well so you have a choice of where to stay when you arrive.
FLYING TO THE DIAMOND AREA OF MANICA, FROM MAPUTO.

I have described my she says, he says routine at the Maputo airport for the trip here in Manica. On the way you stop in Beira for a whole 15 minutes, to refuel they say, but I figure it is to pick up anyone coming this way. They make you get off the plane and when you get back on you may not have your original seat. You can buy a drink at the stop and then you are back on and travel for another 15 minutes and arrive in Chimino. It is a small airport and it is about 45 minutes by road to Manica and about 5 minutes to Chimoio in the other direction. One thing I noticed was that when they unload the baggage it is put on a cart and they push it by hand to the terminal. It is a fairly long trip of about 50-100 yards and it is hard work. At least in Sierra Leone when I first showed up there in 1994 they had the sense to attach a tractor to the cart and pull it. See the man in the background pushing the luggage cart. Oh well, it gives someone a job I guess.
8 Living in Manica
The above is a small collage of some of the sights here in Manica. As you can see it is in the mountains and it is very peaceful for the most part. It is far from the hustle and bustle of Freetown or Kenema, Bo or any main city in Sierra Leone. If I had to describe Manica I could do so in a couple of words they would be:
BORING, BORING and DAMN BORING . THERE IS MORE LIFE IN A CEMETARY, etc.
This town, for foreigners, is for one purpose and one purpose only. To buy diamonds. It is not for pleasure or a lot of creature comforts. You come here to buy and you stay a few weeks and then you are off to sell what you have purchased and come back and do it again.
The lights and water are decent though and you can have lights most of the day. Now and then they go off for a half hour but not many times. I guess the water is ok but everyone I know drinks the bottled water as they seem to do in most of these African countries. There are not many cars here as well and you can get around ok. No industrialization so you do not worry about smog and all you see is the clouds going over the mountains early each day. Now dont get the idea the clouds and mountains are like the ones in Austria and the Sound of Music movie. But they can pretty in the morning when they are first showing up over the mountains. No malls, theaters, McDonalds, Big Macs, Wendys either. Just what it takes to make life a bit easier for the foreigners is what is here. There are plenty of women and they are affordable and not hard to get along with. You find the one you want at the Piscina Restaurant and tell someone and they will send them to you. No fuss, no muss!! Apparently the Lebanese have put some money into the economy as most of the new homes have been built by the Lebanese and I understand the President has given orders that they are not to be harassed here. A lot of money is spent on diamonds here and that money goes back into the economy so why rock the boat?
As you can see the clouds are not spectacular and the mountains are not high but they are nice and it keeps the place cool. Reminds me of the Kono area in Sierra Leone but the mountains seem a bit larger and more of them. Food is abundant and not too expensive and there are only about two Lebanese markets here and one is in the main photo at the top of the page. They are not fancy and as I say it is here to support people that are here for diamonds and not necessarily the local people. To do business here you need a local partner and a frontman so to speak. So the store provides both and bit of income as well.
Watering holes(bars and such) are not many either and only one is where all the Lebanese and locals frequent. It is called the Piscina Restaurant and it is owned by a Lebanese as well. It is where you go to see the women and to find one for the night or hour. In this place you see all the Zimbabwe women on one end of the restaurant and the Mozambique women on the other end of the restaurant. You really do not who are the hard core working girls or the ones out for a night of fun. Maybe none of them are really hard core just out and they are out for some fun and to make a few bucks. In any case it will cost you 300 Meticais or about $10 for a short-time/quickie/visit or whatever you want to call it.(Short time is a throwback to my Viet Nam days.) Not bad I guess and the women are for the most part very pretty. A lot dont speak English though but that is ok as the money talks loud and clear here as it does all over the world in this situation. Sometimes the cost can be to 800 but you can negotiate. Yea, my money speaks and all it says is goodbye! A lot of the women come from Chimoio and take a bus and they want the money to go home again which is understandable and of course they need to eat the day they are in town. I would not say the girls are prostitutes but young women that have no way to make money. You could say it is cheaper to give them a few dollars than take them to dinner and wine and dine them as you do in civilized countries. Everyone needs to eat and live and one good deed deserves another.
There is no photo that does justice to this young womans legs. She has some of the finest legs I have ever seen anywhere. She looks like a young colt taking a stroll to the restaurant where she bought something to drink. Totally fantastic legs is all I can say and as I my dear old dad used to say it pays to advertise.
MORE PHOTOS OF MANICA
Chimoio
This is the town near the airport where you land and then take a car to Manica. As you can see it is like a lot of African towns. The markets are the same with a lot of the same items all over the continent. Most of the goods you see in Africa come from china now so it is the same things just different countries. We went there to buy food as they have a ShopRite there and you go and stock up on things once a week or so. It has a very good variety of meats and cheeses and even a pharmacy attached to it. I would have photos of it but they take your camera at the door for some unknown reason. Maybe they keep state secrets there on the shelf with the instant noodles or something?
Here is the inside of the restaurant and as you can see it is huge and can hold enough people for a good party. Next is the restaurant called the La Plaza. Here are a few photos of one restaurant we went to called La Plaza. It had very excellent food but takes a long time to make it. Dont eat if you are in a hurry to be somewhere. It is very spacious as you will see and the flags on the wall give you an idea of what the ideology of the country used to be. (One with Che Guevara is a hint.)
THESE PHOTOS ARE OF SOME OF STREETS IN CHIMOIO.
I did not see a lot to do there but many people say it is a swinging town and a good one to party in. Maybe being there in the middle of the day made a difference??? Maybe I will be able to go there at night one time and see the difference. There is some good clubs but not being a club kind of guy I would not know how good they are.
10 DIAMONDS OF MANICA AND SOME PRICES
Zimbabwe 9.3ct vs the 9.57ct Sierra Leone diamond

The above diamond (Left) is a prime example of what comes from Zimbabwe to us here, most of the time. Sometimes they come in larger sizes but generally are smaller and bad shapes. The above one (left) is 9.3ct and it will cut and polish to a K color and VS clarity and be about 3.5ct finished. The one on the right is one 9.57 carat J/K color we bought in Sierra Leone and you can see two things from these photos: The Zimbabwe will polish to the color of the one on the right and it shows you the yellow diamonds you get in Sierra Leone and that makes it easier to buy there as you can see the color of the diamonds. The color is hidden under the skin on the Zimbabwe stones.
You can see on this diamond where the K color will be sitting which is just in front of the L and as you can see it is not too bad and if you buy it cheap enough you can make on the color. Of course you want white colors from the D-I but you have to take what is available.
Notice the strange shape and colors. Some of those you would not pickup from the street and they look absolutely nothing like diamonds. Compare them to the Sierra Leone diamond above. The darker black ones will cut to the top colors like D-F.
DIAMOND PRICES AND INFO ON MOZAMBIQUE (ZIMBABWEAN) DIAMONDS

3ct-5ct= $600-800 p/c+ 6ct-8ct =$1600-$2100 p/c + 8-15ct= $2200-3500 When inspecting the diamonds look for the following under UV Light: Looks green in inspection light means clouds in a stone. You pass on these. Looks Blue Fluorescence. Means top color and most likely E-F color . Looks Brownish color means K/L color at worse. Most stones are bad shapes with a few good octahedrons. You can get some good buys as you do anywhere but you have to look for them and be patient.
Lunch at Piscina Restaurant
11 EXPORTING/TAKING YOUR DIAMONDS HOME.

Since this is a non Kimberley Process country, you cannot export the diamonds legally. So what you do is take them home yourself to your cutter or you can take them to Dubai and find someone to certify them for you and then take them home. I hear they can go to Tanzania as well but the problem with these diamonds is that the distinctive coat on them makes them recognizable anywhere in the world that people know diamonds. White diamonds are not a problem to export anywhere and you can take them anywhere that has a Kimberly Process scheme and have them certified. But not so with the Zimbabwe/Mozambique diamonds. If you want to buy these diamonds than you need to plan ahead for a way to get them home as they do you no good sitting in Mozambique. This is something that can be discussed once everything is ready to go and everyone knows what they want and what they want to do with it. There are no problems here only solutions..
12 THIS IS A SERIOUS BUSINESS AND THE CONSEQUENCES CAN BE EXTREME IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THE RULES. Graphic Illustration of this follows.
I am leaving the next page blank so that you will consider what I said above about being vigilant and knowing what you are doing. This business is good for making money and you can have a lot of fun doing it but it has its risks as does any business dealing with money and lots of it at times. You are spending more on some diamonds than most people make all year or in some cases you are spending more in one day than they make in a lifetime in Africa. So keep your mind on business when you are doing business. When you are playing you are playing but come time to do business, do the business. You have to be vigilant and be aware and you will come out well in this venture.
THINK ABOUT THE ABOVE INFO AND TAKE THIS BUSINESS SERIOUSLY
If you fuck up, you can have a serious problem so be extremely careful of what you are doing when buying anything in any country.
This man made a serious mistake and he paid the price. He was a security guard and let people get to close to him. Perhaps his boss was careless and let people know what they were doing but in any case this is the result. They strangled him with his own clothes and took a few bucks they found in the house. All the locals know what every foreigner is doing but you have to use common sense as well. Keep your money hidden and watch what you are doing and you will be ok. If not you could end up like this man. They never caught the killers.
14
FINAL THOUGHTS ON THIS PROJECT

Ok, we have come to the end of the book now and here is what I think about the Project. This is a project that can make a great amount of money with the diamonds. The diamonds are cheaper here than in other places in the world but you have to take some risks with them. As I said there is a way that shows you what the color should be and if you can see inside the diamond you can tell the clarity to some degree. Generally the diamonds come out as a VVS to SI1. As I said 70% of them will come out as a K color, which is just one the line of showing a bit of yellow if you look closely. However they can be sold and considering the price you pay, you cannot go to wrong. You are buying the diamonds based on the K color and SI clarity so when they come out as F color and better and VVS clarity you can have a winner. We have ways to take the diamonds out of Mozambique that will be talked about with an investor. Keep in mind it is technically illegal to buy diamonds in Mozambaique but many people are doing it and the government does say a lot. However as I said in the intro, the government did go on a sweep of people WITHOUT papers. We have papers and a resident permit so we can do what we want. It is important that you know someone if you want to buy and get the diamonds. What I do it take you there and buy with my friends for you. If you know diamonds then you can sit there and look at each one just like I do in Sierra Leone. Once we have enough diamonds then we have them taken out of the country to wherever you want. As I said I offer a complete service from buying to cutting and selling the polished if you like. All you need to do is come with the money and sit with us and then go home and pick up the polished diamonds or the rough, It is up to you on that. If you have a cutter than that is good. If not we will cut them for you. My cutter can cut and polish and then sell the diamonds all at one time. This saves a lot of time for you to get your money back from the sale and it keeps you from running around the country trying to sell the diamonds. So, to sum up this eBook. Yes you can buy rough diamonds in Mozambique and yes you can make money but you have to listen to what I say and then we are ready. Plan to stay two weeks depending on how much money you have. We can buy $100,000 in two weeks or less. For more information on a buying trip contact me at: Gregg Lyell +1-240-550-7803 (Maryland) +258 847357334 (Manica, Mozambique) Thank you and have a good day and I hope you enjoy the book and want to do something soon. Gregg Lyell
WANT TO BUY ROUGH DIAMONDS, IN SIERRA LEONE, WEST AFRICA? THIS IS THE ONE BOOK THAT YOU WILL NEED TO SAVE THOUSANDS Of DOLLARS AND POSSIBLY A JAIL SENTENCE.
SOME DIAMONDS FROM SIERRA LEONE, IN 2006 AND 2007.

Gregg Lyell Sierra Leone/Maryland Sierra Leone Diamond Dealers License number: 37/09 http:www.greggsgemhouse.com
May 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.) INTRODUCTION
2.) HOW I WORK IF YOU WANT TO BUY DIAMONDS THE CORRECT AND LEGITIMATE WAY.
3.) SCAMMERS PRICES THAT ARE BEING SENT OUT TO

UNSUSPECTING BUYERS IN SIERRA LEONE
4.) MY DEALERS LICENSE FOR THE YEAR 2009-2010
http://www.greggsgemhouse.com gems4u@rocketmail.com
TO ALL THAT WANT TO BUY ROUGH DIAMONDS IN SIERRA LEONE, WEST AFRICA (OR ELSEWHERE)
My name is Gregg and a lot of you out there have seen the ads for Sierra Leone diamonds on the Alibaba site here. I have lived in Sierra Leone for the last 12 years and have been a diamond dealer and diamond miner for most of those years and I am going to tell you once and for all that all of those price lists you see are TOTAL BULLSHIT. I hope this is clear enough for all of you reading this. THERE IS NO ONE IN THE COUNTRY THAT HAS THE AMOUNTS AND QUALTIES OF DIAMONDS THESE SCAMMERS ARE ADVERTISING AND IF YOU KNOW ANYONE OTHER THEN MYSELF THAT HAS BEEN THERE and HAD A LICENSE FOR EH ALST 12 YEARS ASK THEM. Call the ministry of mines and ask them about what you read and give them some of the prices and you will see what I mean. You can get their phone number off the internet. Here is the number of the Ministry Of Mines. Call and ask for the Minister of Mines, Alhaji Kanu. +232 22 240142. Tell them of the prices you have received over the internet and ask if they are legitimate prices. They will tell you they are not and that they are criminals trying to dupe people into losing their money. I recently came back from a buying trip and had to talk to a few of those people for some people back here and it was as I told them it would be. There answer for the price of a diamond was this is not a phone business and we have to meet. Total bullshit as we do not have to meet. I can call any dealer I know, Lebanese or legitimate local, and they can give me a price. Why not? That is their business and they should know. After telling one he was full of shit he finally told me a 1 carat sawable stone of 1st color (D-E) would run me $2000 and that the clarity did not matter but the shape did.! This man had big balls to say the least. That diamond costs no more than $500 tops. I know the prices you get from these people are $200 and so on and that is not possible. What I told the people I talked with was to meet with me and the Director of Mineral resources or come to GDO
and meet my friend there and we can look over the diamonds and see what they are worth. The valuer was waiting for me to bring the people to him and of course I did not as there were no diamonds just bullshit and lies to get you there
www.greggsgemhouse.com gems4u@rocketmail.com
HOW I WORK IF YOU WANT TO BUY DIAMONDS THE CORRECT AND LEGITIMATE WAY.
THERE IS A WAY TO BUY THERE AND THERE ARE ESTABLISHED PRICES AND NO ONE IS SELLING OUTSIDE OF THEM, NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE TOLD.
1. $400 a day (12,000 a month) or any part thereof and the airfare paid in advance. I will meet you in Dulles International, in Virginia or I can meet you in the UK as I did with the group last month or we can meet in Freetown. It is up to you. (This fee can be negotiated a bit.) 2. I will offer an option to those that want to get their feet wet without jumping in to begin with. You will pay 2 weeks consulting fee up front and if we go over the two weeks then you pay the rest of the fee. That means you can pay $5600 now and when the second weeks starts you pay the other $6400 on the 15th day. 3. All expenses while there. That does not mean I can do anything I want but whatever I do you do. You listen to me as that is what you are paying me for. If I catch you even speaking to these other people I come home and you are on your own. You people do not know the country or the law and I do and I know what they do to foreigners that try to go around the laws there. I am not going to prison because some of you want to do things the easy way. There is no easy way only the right way. 4. Any licenses we need you pay for. I just renewed my 2009-2010 Diamond Dealers license so I am good in that area for another year. I will add it to this letter as well.I can offer cutting, polishing and selling in one spot if you want and do not have any plans to do this on your own.. This is from my cutter who has been going there since 1978 or thereabouts and knows what is going on there. He is an excellent cutter and is well known in the country (Sierra Leone and the US). If you wish to talk to him about me then I will give you the number and numbers of s couple of others I have bought diamonds for over the years. 5. If you use my cutter then I get 6% (Negotiable) of the sales of the polished. If you take them and say you are selling as rough then the $12,000 for the months Consulting fee is all I receive.the cutter receives 5% for the cutting fee. 6. You will be prepared to stay for a minimum of 14 days and we will travel to Kenema, Bo and maybe Koidu, in the Kono area. The Diamond Trail runs from Kono, to Kenema and then to Bo and then Freetown. Being in Kenema gives us first shot at the stones coming from Kono. We may rent an office from someone to buy or we may work from the hotel in Kenema. We will decide that when we get there.
10. I will show you around the country and will not let you spend money that does not need to be spent. I will find you a good hotel and we will stay there. 11. I will tell you how to carry the money there and you will have no problems with customs there or I can arrange for it to be sent to a bank account once we are there. It is up to you. You can carry $100,000 on you with no problem if you like or more. 12. I will need to know what you want in the way of diamonds and not just diamonds beforehand. If it is not possible then I will tell you so and we will not go. 13. I will take you to everyone I know in the business there and that includes the government officials at the Ministry of Mines, including the Minister who is a friend, the Director of Mines and the former Director General of Mines as well. 14. I will take you the GDO which where you will meet the Independent Valuer who is also a friend of mine for many years and you are free to ask him anything about diamonds, me or whatever tickles your fancy. I hide nothing and you will see that all is above board and legal. 15. We will do this right or not at all. I am not looking for a vacation and I value my reputation and all the hard work I have done there since 1996. 16. MOST IMPORTANTLY I GUARANTEE NOTHING IN THE WAY OF CERTAIN TYPES/SIZES OF DIAMONDS. I WILL NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY JUST BECAUSE IT IS THERE. 17. IF WHAT WE WANT, BASED ON WHAT YOU TELL ME, IS NOT THERE, THEN YOU GO HOME WITH NOTHING BUT NICE MEMORIES OF THE BEACH AND THE COUNTRY AND YOU CAN TRY AGAIN LATER. IF THE DIAMONDS ARE NOT THERE THEY ARE NOT THERE. IT TAKES SOME TIME AND PATIENCE TO GET WHAT YOU WANT AT TIMES. So that is it. If you want to go buy then contact me and we can get started. Keep in mind I hate to be a jerk but I will not even inquire about a ticket until I get the money from you for the consulting fee and ticket. It sounds harsh but that is the way it has to be. I am not in the business to waste time and your money. When you are ready I will send you my bank account number and we can start. Of course you can go on your own as well and I wish you the best of luck. Just remember if you go by yourself get all your licenses such as the resident visa ($1400), your Multiple Entry Visa $130 (at the embassy in Washington DC), your work permit which can cost $200 (as it did me this last time) your Dealers License which is $4000 now instead of $5000, and pay the Income tax of 600,000 leones ($200), Rehabilitation fee of 500,000 and the Monitoring fee (by the Mines Monitors) of $500.
As you can see if you go alone it can cost you in the area of $6000 if you can swing it. Technically you are to be in the country for 6 months before you can get the Resident Visa which you must have to get the Diamond Dealers License. And if you do this, do not meet with anyone that does not have a MINING License as it is illegal to buy diamonds from anyone but a miner unless you have an Exporters License or Exporters Agents license and they were all given out when I was there last month (July). Do not let anyone tell you can buy from them because they have a dealers or exporters license. It is a con game and half the time they are working with the cops for the 25% they will get on any diamonds you are caught with. YOU CAN ONLY BUY FROM MINERS AND THEY MUST GIVE YOU A RECEIPT WITH THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS. DONT LET YOUR GREED PUT IN PRISON THERE. IF THEY CATCH YOU THEY WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND ANY DIAMONDS YOU HAVE BOUGHT AND YOU WILL NEVER GET EITHER BACK. I am adding one or two price lists from the Alibaba so you can see what I am talking about. Just so you will know a 1 carat diamond cost $400-500 there; a 2 carat may run $700-800; a 3 carat may hit $1300-1600 and the 9 carats should be around $3500 a carat. Compare that to the lists I will add and you will see they are totally full of bullshit and it is a con to get you there and find a way to take your money.
ONE LAST NOTE:

(I require that anyone that wants to go read this book before we take off to Sierra Leone)
If you are serious and do not know diamonds or the diamonds in Sierra Leone, I will want you to go the website http://www.greggsgemhouse.com and buy the book I wrote on buying diamonds in Sierra Leone. Go to the EBooks page and look at the books and chose the one on buying rough in Sierra Leone 2010. It is $300 and is all you will need to know about how it is done there and how you must buy to stay out of trouble.
This is the cover of the book you want to order. It is $300 and the reason for that is all the scammers taking my info and using it to get people to come and then take their money. If they want my info then they are going to pay for it now. The book is about 50 pages and has all you really need to know about the country and the diamonds. You will see everything concerning the licenses, sales books that the mines dept gives you and so on. Once you have the book i will know you are serious and then we can talk. Buying prices are in this version of the book. Take care Gregg
SCAMMERS PRICES THAT ARE BEING SENT OUT TO UNSUSPECTING BUYERS FROM SIERRA LEONE ON THE INTERNET,THROUGH ALIBABA FOR THE MOST PART.
TOTAL FUCKING BULLSHIT BELOW. (This man does not feel the clarity and color are worth mentioning)
MORE TOTAL BULLSHIT LIES As you can see this man below has all the very best quality diamonds in clarity and the best colors with the exception of some in the J color range. Again it is impossible to get these qualities in the amounts he says he has and especially in the prices.
The price for the 1.5ct above should run in the $500-600 range per carat. These are total bullshit prices and unfortunately a lot of people will fall for these and if they send money they have lost it and if they go they will not see the diamonds as they dont exist. I will meet with these people any time I am in Salone at the Minister of Mines office or the GDO and we show the supposed diamonds and see what they say. As I said below, this will never happen as they do not exist and is a total fabrication.
LONTA!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
MY DEALERS LICENSE FOR THE YEAR 2009-2010
I am ready to go when you are so contact me at the email or leave a message on the website: www.greggsgemhouse.com Thank you for your time and I hope you heed my warnings and do things the right way. Gregg Lyell

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Here is the clarity grading and what we/you will want.

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Scammers Price Lists from Sierra Leone via the Internet

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4. There are courier services to take the diamonds to your home.

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