Roughs

[HeavyT]

Anyone here want to know or talk about rough diamonds?

I am a diamond sorter for Diavik Diamond Mine Inc. at their PSF.

 

[valeria101]

Can we exchange jobs for month or so ?

The higher up the diamond-making chain this forum gets is with the comments of a couple of cutters... no one talking about their rough material. So, you are certainly welcome to fill in the void ! There must be lots of it.

What comes out of the gound ? What is sent out for cutting into what shapes and sizes ? What colors come from Canada ?

Does it get boring ? Is rough diamond jewelry any more popular around the source ? I could never understand why it is more so everywhere ! Actually, any story you might have under the sleeve... please put it down if you so please

For example, the makers of the Context cut diamond claim that their merchandise can only be done from very fine material. How false does this sound to you ?

 

[HeavyT]

When we recieve a shipment directly from our mine site it will come in as a mixture of rough diamonds and non-diamond, non-diamond being anything from other gems to granite. Our mine produces some of the purest stones in the world, we dont get many coloured stones, but we do get lots and lots of DEF''s.

After we are finished our sorting, seiveing, and cleaning processes, our Joint Venture Owners, Rio Tinto (60%), and Aber Diamonds Canada (40%), take their share of diamonds. Then those diamonds (not all) are sold to the cutting works that are here in the NWT. The cutting works up here gets all sorts of shapes to cut and usually they only cut stones that will have a 0.40 to a half carat finish weight, allthough they do/can cut all sizes.

As I said before we dont get to many coloured stones here in Canada (we say that our stones cant be coloured cause there is too much snow, so they are always white

). However we do get the odd pink that will come through, aswell as a fancy yellow or two, other than that, not much else.

Does it get boring? NO, diamond sorting/seiving at our PSF is pretty fun, we have a very close team and a very relaxed work environment. We have excelled in every aspect of our operation and just recently were reccomened for ISO 9001 certification after an audit took place by ISO.

Rough Dimaond Jewlery is unfortunatley, not very popular up here, I think it would be if jewlers were supplied with them, but they hardly are. I personally love rough jewlery, I think it is awesome.

Anyways if anyone has anymore questions about rough I would be glad to fill you in on what I know

 

[perry]

HeavyT:

Welcome to Pricescope. I am sure that longterm your presence will be a huge benifit here.

Occasionally we get someone who is interested in purchasing a rough diamond or two.

Sit back and take your time going through the tutorias and following the discussions; you will learn a lot about what becomes of your rough diamonds.

By the way, do you sort for Fluoresence; and if so, about what % of the diamonds have fluoresence from your mine.

Perry

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

Welcome HeavyT

I have visited the Perth sorting facility and seen your brothers and sisters in the Argyle Rio Tinto owned bsuiness.

I have a question for you.

Do you think or are you trained to believe that a very slightly distorted octa hedra is more valuable than a perfectly shaped one?

 

[windowshopper]

Date: 1/20/2005 11:53:18 PM
Author: Garry H (Cut Nut)
Welcome HeavyT

I have visited the Perth sorting facility and seen your brothers and sisters in the Argyle Rio Tinto owned bsuiness.

I have a question for you.

Do you think or are you trained to believe that a very slightly distorted octa hedra is more valuable than a perfectly shaped one?

garry please what/why explain?

 

[HeavyT]

Perry: We do not sort the fluoresence here at our Product Splitting Facility, most Canadain Diamonds dont fluorese that much at all so thats why, we still have the x-ray machines at the mine site recovery area however, cause they do help.

Garry: No Im afraid not, we dont really deal to much in the value of diamonds, just the processing of them.

 

[hoorray]

Welcome HeavyT!

Can you tell us a little about the sorting process? I for one always look at those pictures of the rough and wonder how you know what you have...