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- An Israeli-owned company has started operating a big new stone-crushing plant at a modern diamond mine in the east of the country. It is the area where the rebel war in Sierra Leone began in 1991 and - not coincidentally - the place where most of the country's diamonds are found.
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- Blood Diamond is a 2006 American political war thriller film directed by Edward Zwick.
- The movie explores the issues surrounding diamond mining in war-torn Sierra Leone during the late 1990s.
- Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Danny Archer, a mercenary diamond smuggler who forms an unlikely alliance with Solomon Vandy, played by Djimon Hounsou, a fisherman who is searching for his lost son and a rare pink diamond.
- The story is set against the backdrop of the Sierra Leone Civil War and highlights the unethical trade of conflict diamonds.
Aug 16, 2018 · Miners extract gravel at a diamond mine in Koryardu, Sierra Leone, where the 709-carat diamond was found in 2017.
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Apr 19, 2022 · Experts say a two-tier system of diamond mining has since emerged: industrial, deep mines, which are very closely guarded and run only by wealthy foreign companies, and the informal,...
May 13, 2008 · At the mine, Solomon discovers a remarkably large and valuable pink diamond and buries it for safekeeping. The Sierra Leone army launches a deadly air strike against the rebels and the survivors, including Solomon, are arrested and brought to a jail in the capital.
Though Blood Diamond revolves around fictional characters, the events are based on real experiences of individuals in Sierra Leone during the civil war. The film depicts village attacks by rebel groups, the enslavement of Sierra Leoneans, the use of child soldiers, and illicit markets that are often ignored.
Diamonds are big business in Sierra Leone. Dispersed over terrain spanning some 8,000 square miles (almost a quarter of the entire country), an abundance of the precious – and extremely valuable – stones have made the diamond sector one of the country’s most lucrative foreign currency generators.
The lumpy, egg-sized, 709-carat “Peace Diamond” was one of the largest ever discovered in Sierra Leone and between the 10th and 15th largest ever found. The miner who found the diamond, Emanuel Momoh, received $2.4 million USO from the sale of the diamond.
