This page is a collection of links to pages that I’ve found to be useful and informative.
Education Sites on Diamonds:
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Diamond – nicely done page from Susan Ward Aber of Emporia State University, for a class offered at the University – GO 340 Gemstones & Gemology
Information about Diamonds:
Dangerous Diamonds: Scandals Behind the Sparkle of the World’s Most Desirable Gems – An overview of some of the history and scandal and warfare that has embraced the mining and sale of diamonds.
Africa’s Diamond Wars – a multiple part New York Times article on strife over diamonds in Africa.
The Diamond Invention – A cyberbook on diamonds by Edward Jay Epstein.
Government Resources
Convention on Biological Diversity
An international organization aimed at protecting the biodiversity of the world.