Infninte Economy

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by Jim Bob

Indeed. Who's got $100 million for a large conveyer or small projector? Not your small prospector, that's for sure. DeBeers has the money. They'll be onto this real quick...

I think they'll still lose their monopoly - there will just be too many new players for them to suppress them all. OTOH the price of good gem quality diamonds probably won't drop that much - they are still going to be reasonably uncommon and expensive to find and bring back.