As with any business, best practices dictate that you insert yourself at any level possible, and learn every day from the people you work with who know more about the business than you do.
Internships, lower-level, entry-level jobs are usually the best way to get started.
If however, you are ready to invest in becoming a raw diamond dealer based on having the necessary funding, you can work with an existing dealer and offer some kind of legal partnership.
Becoming a gold dealer is a relatively simple process. One needs to obtain a DBA(doing business as) license, which can be acquired from the local city hall. Once this licensed is obtained, one is legally a gold dealer.
First the illegal immigrant should apply for a Visa to become a citizen. Then they should start looking for work to save money. You should apply for your business resellers permit and then contact a watch company on how to be an authorized dealer. THEN you can sell any watch to the citizen...
Dealer pricing is the cost that a dealer gets an item for. The dealer pricing is less than what a consumer would pay for the item. This allows the dealer to make money on the sale.
You can sell a diamond that you own almost anywhere.
A distributer will sell wholesale goods to a retailer/dealer. The dealer/retailer will sell the same good at a profit to the consumer.
The proper words are raw diamond, raw stone, rough diamond, uncut diamond -- all are appropriate.
The field test for raw diamond is 'extreme hardness'.
Your question is about a raw diamond. A raw diamond must be evaluated for its natural colour and clarity. Then you can work with a diamond cutter to estimate the value of a cut diamond that can be 'rescued' from the raw diamond. The diamond cutter may offer to purchase the raw stone, or work out another arrangement with you for its ultimate value. Typically more than 50% of the carat weight of a raw diamond is lost during the cutting process.
William Goldberg - diamond dealer - died in 2003.
William Goldberg - diamond dealer - was born in 1925.
You're asking about a raw diamond, one that has not been cut or polished. In context, sometimes a raw diamond's "... eight corners are truncated by the eight faces of the octahedron." This is one description of a diamond's raw, crystalline form. You can read more about the geometric descriptions of raw diamonds, below.
The raw diamond of 19.5 carats weighs about 3900 milligrams. Remember, though that raw, gem-quality diamonds can lose about 60% of their weight when cut and polished.
A raw diamond looks like two square pyramids attached at the base.
Yes, if it is hit by another raw diamond or struck with an incredibly powerful industrial laser.
Each of the business functions you mention falls within the distribution chain of diamonds. The business that mines for diamonds makes a profit, given their expenses and their sales -- to diamond brokers and to industrial diamond buyers. Remember that 75% of diamonds mined are used by industry and are not of gem quality. Diamond brokers who deal in gem-quality stones buy them from the mining companies, usually in raw form and usually in bulk. These diamonds, then, are sold more individually to diamond dealers. Somewhere within the process of gem-quality diamonds changing hands, the raw diamonds are cut, faceted and polished, and become the individual gem stones that adorn humans in diamond jewelry.
The largest raw diamond found to date is the Cullinan Diamond, found in South Africa in 1905. It weighed over 3,000 carats.
Yes, diamond is a raw material and is located deep within the earth's mantel.