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Re:Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever by rodgerd on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:47AM (#27036079)
> I suspect if they had alternate employment opportunities available that were more pleasant/better-paying, they'd have already taken them.

Spoken like someone who thinks that mining is conducted by volunteers.

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Re:Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever by goldcd on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:06AM (#27036226)
erm in the vast, vast majority of cases they are..

Most of the world's diamonds are coming out of open-cast mines and most of those are in Russia.

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