How do you dig blood diamonds?

Answer 1

'Blood' describes the mining method, not the type or quality of the stones found.

Blood diamonds are diamonds excavated from the earth by people who work as 'slaves', and whose work with diamonds can cause them to bleed to death when the overseer hacks off their hand or shoots the slave on a whim.

Because one digs blood diamonds at gunpoint, you might not want to volunteer for this job.

At gunpoint, or knife-point or under other threat of death or physical mayhem, you stand in a stream and pick through rocks in the stream bed, or dig with a shovel and fill sorting trays with earth, while another 'slave' sifts through the earth searching for diamonds.

Answer 2

Blood diamonds, also known as conflict diamonds, are mined in war zones and sold to finance armed conflict against governments. Individuals involved in digging blood diamonds typically operate in illegal and unethical conditions, perpetuating human rights abuses and environmental degradation. It is important to support the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which aims to prevent the trade of conflict diamonds.