41. Keep your rough diamonds , your kaleidoscope, your mission, your connectors and your propaganda peddler-routing revolution. 42. The Kimberley Process does not apply to local sales of rough diamonds within a country. 43. Rough diamonds under the control of the Liberian government would be exempt from the embargo.44. The CSO sold a record $ 4 . 834 billion of rough diamonds in 1996. 45. "He's a rough diamond , a strange bird ." 46. Rough diamonds are supposed to be shipped in sealed packages certified by authorities in exporting nations.47. The worldwide production of rough diamonds was worth US $ 7 . 8 billion last year. 48. Russia produces about 20 percent of the world's rough diamonds , but sends most abroad for cutting. 49. Russia accounts for about a quarter of the world's rough diamonds and has vast untapped reserves. 50. Before automation, close to 50 percent of a rough diamond was lost in the hand-cutting process.