Sierra Leone Diamonds - Diamond Facts & Trivia @ DiamondSource.in

The first Sierra Leonean diamond was found in 1930, and significant production commenced in 1935. Sierra Leonean production is characterized by a high proportion of top-quality gem diamonds.

Owing to a number of political decisions and manoeverings however, the volume of legitimate diamonds sourced from Sierra Leone, a West African country, has gradually decreased. From a high of over two million carats in 1970, legitimate diamond exports dropped to 595,000 carats in 1980 and then to less than 50,000 carats in 1990.

Diamonds have been widely blamed for the cause of widespread death, destruction and misery for almost a decade in the small of Sierra Leone. Through the 1990s, Sierra Leone’s rebel war became a tragedy of major humanitarian, political and historic proportions, but the story goes back further. Graham Greene wrote a famous 1948 novel about diamond smuggling in Sierra Leone titled The Heart of the Matter.

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