# Conflict diamonds are old news.  What about conflict sapphires?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 11, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conflict-diamonds-are-old-news-what-about-conflict-sapphires/364075 "2006-07-11T19:41:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Squadoosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Squadoosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squadoosh)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conflict-diamonds-are-old-news-what-about-conflict-sapphires/364075/21 "2006-07-14T01:48:08Z")

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[QUOTE=Nicest of the Damned]  
I know this is more info than you asked for, but perhaps someone will find it helpful. 🙂  
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On the contrary! What an excellent collection of links and and commentary; I sincerely appreciate it. 🙂

I’m not in the market for any rock at all, to be fair, and was simply looking for anything at all that mentioned the not-at-all-sin-free nature of other gemstones. Thank you so much for your knowlege.

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**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conflict-diamonds-are-old-news-what-about-conflict-sapphires/364075/22 "2006-07-14T01:56:02Z")

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I came in to mention “blood emeralds” but was beaten to the punch. There is tons of info about them- google “emerald mining torture” and you’ll get about 60,000 hits.

Columbia is not a nice place, if you are working in a gem mine…

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