Al Cook, CEO of leading diamond producer De Beers, has called on diamond-producing countries to bolster the marketing of natural diamonds as lab-grown diamonds squeeze market share.
Speaking during the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town this week, Cook described synthetic diamonds as being grown in a “microwave in China” as opposed to natural diamonds produced from the earth’s crust...
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