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Contents: INTRODUCTION • PART I: GOLD • Production • Gold Markets •South African Gold Sales to Italy • Summary • PART II: DIAMONDS • The South African-U.S. Diamond Trade • The Diamond Distribution Network • Financing the Diamond Trade • CONCLUSION • NOTES • APPENDICES • Tables: Table I. South Africa's Principle Exports • Table II. World Gold Production, 1985 • Table III. Major Participants in the Zurich and London Gold • Table IV. Italian Gold Imports by Country of Origin, 1981-86 • Table V. Italian Jewelry Exports in 1985 • Table VI. World Production of Gem Quality Diamonds by Country, 1985 • Figures: Figure 1. World Gold Production • Figure 2a. Purchases of South African Gold by Country • Figure 2b. Estimated Sales of S. African Gold on the London and Zurich Markets as a Fraction of Total New Gold Sales • Figure 3. Italian Gold Imports, 1985 • Figure 4. Italian Jewelry Exports, 1985 • Figure 5. U.S. Semi-Annual Imports of Rough Diamonds by Country of Origin, January 1095-June 1987 • Figure 6. World Trade in Rough Diamonds in 1985 in Millions of U.S. Dollars • The pamphlet discusses the Zurich gold market, the Union Bank of Switzerland, the Swiss Bank Corporation, Credit Swiss, Mocatta and Goldsmid (Standard Chartered), Samuel Montagu (Midland Bank), Sharps Pixey (Kleinwort Benson Lonsdale), Mase Westpac (Westpac Banking- Australia), N. M. Rothschild, the Bank of Nova Scotia, Chase Manhattan, Citicorp, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Goldman Sachs and Co., Morgan Guaranty, Salomon Brothers, Shearson Lehman Brothers, C. Itoh and Co., Mitsui and Co., Sumitomo Corp., Deutsche Bank, Italian International Bank (Monte dei Paschi di Siena), De Beers, the Anglo-American conglomerate, the Central Selling Organization, industrial diamonds, sanctions, Zaire, the USSR, the anti-apartheid movement, and the EEC (European Economic Community) countries.

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SOUTH AFRICA'S GOLD AND DIAMOND TRADE

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