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diamond cuttingBranch of lapidary art involving the five basic steps in fashioning a diamond: marking, cleaving, sawing, girdling, and faceting. The most popular style is the brilliant cut, a round stone with 58 facets; a round diamond with only 18 facets is known as a single cut. Any other style is known as a fancy cut. See also gemstone. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``Rare in Nature: Diamonds of the Canadian Arctic'' includes airfare for two to Yellowknife, the diamond capital of North America, luxurious accommodations, professional diamond cutting and polishing lessons, a private tour of top-security facilities where diamonds are crafted and certified, a personally engraved diamond pendant, plus a luxurious shawl made of super-duper special fiber. On the inside, is a smooth face, slightly convex due to the creep of the diamond cutting band, and the whole mass tapers slightly as it rises. The fact-finding mission included a visit by the delegation with His Excellency President Festus Mogae of Botswana, as well as a tour of Botswana's Jwaneng Mine, the largest diamond mine in the world by value, the BDVC Diamond Sort House and the Eurostar diamond cutting and polishing facility. |
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