That game, where users play quick one minute rounds connecting diamonds of the same colors, took off and has had 20 million downloads on iPhones and iPads.

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Again like magic, this took place despite the fact that over the same period more and more diamonds flowed onto the market.

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An emerging face of irresponsible capitalism in Africa, Dan Gertler took his family's fortune in diamonds (his grandfather was the first president of the Israeli Diamond Exchange) and invested it in mining assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Also on 15 November, Russian President Boris Yeltsin took control of the production and distribution of -- and the hard currency revenues associated with -- oil, diamonds, gold and other precious metals on Russian territory .

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