A buying room – it is about the size of a large toilet or a small bathroom, and doubles as a dining room as we can see with Drena and Tony, the GM of the chain-store she works for, with the guy who heads the sales office of this company. They originally were Argyle Sightholders, and then became clients of BHP as well. So the diamonds we buy from them are Argyle champagne (now wholly owned by Rio Tinto) and Rio's DiaVik white diamonds and their new African mine (can't remember the name??). They track each diamonds origin, so we know if the stone is Canadian and from which mine etc. They have also subscribed to the Canada mark program.

Here we are in another suppliers office– there must have been about 3 or 4 kilos of diamonds in each bag. At 5,000 carats per kilo – that is a lot of diamonds. They are all very cheap TLB (TopLightBrown) small goods. This company produces about what is on the table each day!!!