Diamond hunter sets sail: World's largest gem finding vessel

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The diamond hunter sets sail: World's largest gem finding vessel - costing £122 million - begins trawling 140 meters below sea level for precious stones

"Diamond hunters will be searching for valuable gems at 140 metres below sea level in this state-of-the-art £122 million trawler."

"The crawler can lift 60 tonnes of sediment each hour to the vessel through a giant pipe attached.

Sediment that doesn't contain diamond-bearing material is then passed back to the ocean, while the natural ecosystem is closely monitored."

Unlike with Nautilus no discussion of environmental catastrophes or effects on sea life.  Nautilus proposes to mine an important industrial metal copper used in windmills and Teslas.  Debeers is dredging for jewels.   Diamond hunter will be operating in ecologically sensitive shallow coastal waters.  The seem to claim they will only dredge areas that are diamond 'hot spots', which if true would mean they will minimize the amount of dredging.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4611248/The-diamond-hunter-sets-sail.html#ixzz4kSHTdgXf

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The De Beers 'offshore' diamond dredging has caught people's interest possibly because it involves diamonds. But in the stories I read there is no discussion of the environment, even though the activity is happening in sea life rich shallow coastal water. Apparently no interest as to what happens to the tailings either. No celebrity animals like Casper the Octopus, that apparently Nautilus will cause to be extinct.

Bloomberg puff piece about the wonderful little diamonds De Bears dredges up. BTW, maybe there are diamonds all over the seafloor. Maybe in a few decades, diamonds will be worthless. Hoovering doesn't sound like they have done any of the environmental prep Nautilus did.

De Beers Hoovers Up Its Best Diamonds From the African Seabed
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-ess...can-seabed

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The De Beers 'offshore' diamond dredging has caught people's interest possibly because it involves diamonds. But in the stories I read there is no discussion of the environment, even though the activity is happening in sea life rich shallow coastal water. Apparently no interest as to what happens to the tailings either. No celebrity animals like Casper the Octopus, that apparently Nautilus will cause to be extinct. Bloomberg puff piece about the wonderful little diamonds De Bears dredges up. BTW, maybe there are diamonds all over the seafloor. Maybe in a few decades, diamonds will be worthless. Hoovering doesn't sound like they have done any of the environmental prep Nautilus did. De Beers Hoovers Up Its Best Diamonds From the African Seabed https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-ess...can-seabed

The truth is no one gives a shit about Africa. Nautilus operations in the Pacific is quite different because the culture there values the ocean because it is a part of their way of live where as the people in Africa just dump trash in the sea and think of the ocean as a big trash dumpster. That's the reason for the embrace of diamonds in Africa and the resistance in the Pacific.

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The truth is no one gives a shit about Africa.

Or maybe all those A Diamonds Is Forever ads are paying off in terms of positive media coverage.