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hey guys we’re live in dubai at the
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mining show uh quite an impressive
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conference they got here all kinds of
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the coolest stuff i keep saying is the
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childhood dream you go digging in the
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dirt and what do you find gold diamonds
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precious metals anything oil
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uh all the good stuff so i found uh dr
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emzy and uh he’s been working as a
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representative of africa and he’s going
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to share with us what he’s doing
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so i’m here at the mining show
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celebrating 13 years of the mining show
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and now we have a live event i’m
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physically here i’m the chairman of the
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african diamond council it’s an official
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governing body for africa’s diamond
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producing countries we have 18 countries
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12 major producers we defend
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we promote and
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we basically
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introduce legislation rules and
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regulations for the diamond industry in
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africa wow that’s very cool so 18
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countries how did those come about
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well we started out
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we didn’t have an official governing
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body the oil industry had opec
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back in 2002 we launched an initiative
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to establish
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an official governing body it took us
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three years to get all the members on
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board and now we’re basically one of the
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best examples of an organization that’s
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basically out front promoting uh our
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african diamond industry wow so it’s
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been very successful very cool so what’s
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your favorite uh area to have diamonds
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mined out of
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well right now botswana is the number
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one diamond producer angola is number
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two and of course there’s drc namibia in
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south africa and then you you have
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companies like debeers
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who’s uh operating in three of those
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countries sure and you’re talking about
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some of the newer techniques uh the
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drills that go in and maybe they use the
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radar so that they don’t break the
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diamonds as as you’re mining could you
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share a little bit about that yeah it’s
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called xrt technology this is a
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technology that’s really helping our
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diamond industry extract faster
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it puts us in position to locate stones
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and very big stones now high density
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stones and
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also stones that are not coming back
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damaged we’re using that technology to
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help us extract more impressive products
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very cool so what’s uh one of the oldest
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stones that you guys have maybe found
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all this i mean there’s quite a few old
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stones like i said we’ve been
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for over two centuries we’ve been
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extracting diamonds but in in recent
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developments you have a country like
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botswana they found
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two 1 000 carat diamonds this year
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within a 30-day period
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and that’s something that’s it’s very
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historic i mean that’s something that’s
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never happened in the past okay so who
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do you find to be the uh biggest
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purchaser of your diamonds
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well the united states is the number one
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consuming nation
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and they get about half of our output of
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the the world pop yeah the world outlet
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very cool so we love diamonds in the us
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and diamonds love you too
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very cool uh is there anything else
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you’d like to share and maybe how could
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people get a hold of you
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well they can get through me uh through
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the african diamond council website or
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the african international diamond
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exchange
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i’d be more than happy i do come to las
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vegas once a year okay for the jck show
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in las vegas the jewelry show there so
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we have some visibility there
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and outside of that i’m i’m speaking at
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several diamond conferences and mining
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conferences and all that’s associated
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with precious minerals very good yeah
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so do you have a twitter or linkedin how
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do people get ahold of yeah my twitter
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my linkedin it’s uh my twitter is
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m-z-e-e-f-u-l-a-n-g-e
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n-g-e
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and gangnam and we also have african
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diamond council twitter as well african
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diamond council thanks so much for
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coming on doctor it’s a pleasure man
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that’s good talking to you
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have fun okay have fun thank you
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thank
