On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:55:39 +0000, Abrasha wrote:

Unless he is an invited guest to one of the diamond clubs, he won't be
able to. Buying rough diamonds is only for the selected few.
.........
That's not the kind of rough the above poster was talking about.

So, is there some known practice of De Beers releasing poor quality roughs
to the general market and keeping the high quality ones for the clubs?
If so, what is the cut-off point? Just being cuttable?