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A sightholder is a company on DTC's list of authorised bulk purchasers of rough diamonds.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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The group's managing director Gary Ralfe, in Botswana for the ground breaking of DTC sightholder EuroStar, disclosed that the DTC was suggesting to its sightholders that they establish cutting and polishing centres in producer countries such as Botswana.
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Botswana for the ground breaking of one to be established by DTC sightholder EuroStar, said the DTC was suggesting to its sightholders that they establish cutting and polishing centres in producer countries.
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Mogae has ben pressuring De Beers, which is a 50 percent partner in Botswana's diamond industry, to support the effort and one major sightholder is due to open a factory in 2006.
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The dealer from whom she bought the tiara is Macdonald Temane, who belongs to a company that is a sightholder - or preferred client - of diamond giant De Beers.
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Forest City Enterprises, and joined forces with Dynamic Diamond Corp., a diamond trading company sightholder, to design and introduce a line of jewelry at the brand's first flagship retail store called 'Ivanka Trump' on Madison Avenue.
WN.com - Articles related to Botswana Vice President in India for four-day visit 2010
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Before joining the family business she worked for Forest City Enterprises, and joined forces with Dynamic Diamond Corp., a diamond trading company sightholder, to design and introduce a line of jewelry at the brand's first flagship retail store called 'Ivanka Trump' on Madison
WN.com - Articles related to Botswana Vice President in India for four-day visit 2010
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JOHANNESBURG - Diamond Trading Co (DTC) Botswana, the sales arm of global diamond major De Beers, has appointed an Indian diamond producer as its sightholder to ensure the sustainability of its diamond manufacturing capacity in the African country.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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Newcomers to Africa such as the Shrenuj India Group, De Beers diamond sightholder since
MRZine.org 2010
vanishedone commented on the word sightholder
Neatorama: 'If you want to buy diamonds from De Beers, you've got to play by their rules: diamond are sold in events known as "sights." There are 10 sights held each year, and to buy, you have to be a sightholder (these are usually diamond dealers whose business is to have the stones cut and polished and then resold at diamond clearing centers of Antwerp, New York, and Tel Aviv).
'The diamonds are sold on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. A sightholder is given a small box of uncut diamonds priced between $1 and $25 million. De Beers set the price - there is no haggling and no re-selling of diamonds in uncut form. It is rare for sightholders to refuse a diamond package offered to them, for fear of not being invited back. And those who dare to purchase diamonds from other sources than De Beers will have their sightholder privilege revoked.'
December 1, 2008
bilby commented on the word sightholder
So much for the 'free market'.
December 1, 2008