By precious stones, I'm talking about the kind of precious stones confined to the pocket money section of small regional museums, which is where I spent most of my childhood.
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J, the largest shareholder of precious stones miner Gemfields Plc GEM.
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I'd bought her a beautiful necklace encrusted with blue precious stones.
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It is set with 19,000 precious stones, most believed to be diamonds.
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Costume jewelry pieces do not tend to contain precious stones and metals.
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That was followed by precious stones and metals, at nearly $210 million.
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Featuring two precious stones, these come with a multicolor long knot paracord.
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The selection also includes elegant hoops and drop earrings with precious stones.
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Early settlements prospered thanks to passing traders transporting frankincense, myrrh and precious stones.
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Anklets, gold and silver spoons, and amulets with precious stones also are popular.
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We now prefer singles to full projects, precious stones for our assorted playlists.
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They then stuffed two large wheeled trash containers with jewels, gold and precious stones.
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Jango: I travel around the world collecting precious stones and making jewelry to sell.
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While the precious stones will be hard to come by, those red lips probably won't.
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L) and most recently Shefa Yamin, an explorer for precious stones in northern Israel. (SEFA.
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It said Singapore should strengthen its anti-money laundering regime for precious stones and metals dealers.
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The government recently has shifted its attention from precious metals to precious stones, announcing on Sept.
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There are also one-of-a-kind baubles, embellished with diamonds, rubies, and other precious stones.
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Now I make all types of carvings of bunny rabbits, swans and horses with precious stones.
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Most treatments use La Mer products; one very Bulgari facial massages the skin with precious stones.
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We've rounded up a selection of 10 precious stones, each with a different set of potential benefits.
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Like most industries built atop precious stones and metals, tradition is mainstream largely because it is economical.
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The thieves stole two gold crowns and an orb encrusted with with gold, precious stones, and pearls.
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Then they ransacked 73 of more than 900 safe deposit boxes, taking jewelry, gold, cash and precious stones.
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The artifacts are gold-plated and adorned in precious stones and pearls though their exact value is unknown.
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With optics like these, why not supercharge your life by carrying the semi-precious stones everywhere you go?
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"What's important is that the jewelry is not valuable because of gold or precious stones," Mr. Bechtler said.
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It was created by haute couture designer Debbie Wingham, and its decorations include diamonds and other precious stones.
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On one occasion, Chapo had a gold-plated AK-47 with "some precious stones encrusted in it," Rosero said.
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Egyptian papyrus, precious stones and chariots could now buy you exotic animals, skins and minerals from Africa and Asia.
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Designer Sophie Monet marries blocky, Matisse-like shapes with materials like exotic wood, precious stones, and metals (sustainable whenever possible).
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I realized that mundane things like salt and sugar and snowflakes — not just polished collectibles and precious stones — are crystals.
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Some locals call this trading town El Dorado because of the precious stones and goods that pass through its markets.
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It is famous for precious stones, especially sapphires, which come in shades of blue, pink, yellow, violet, white, green and orange.
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Using rare footage, the film explores the beauty and story of the Crown Jewels — 140 items that include 23,000 precious stones.
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Afghanistan sits upon an estimated $27.8 trillion in mineral wealth, a combination of precious stones, natural gas, copper and lithium deposits.
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Afghanistan sits upon an estimated $245 trillion in mineral wealth, a combination of precious stones, natural gas, copper and lithium deposits.
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Hunting for the precious stones, formed by the hardening of tree resin over thousands of years, is a popular tourist activity.
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The truly absurd looking spiked bracelet watch is made of white gold and encrusted with 65 carats' worth of precious stones.
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I remember the date, my address, my children's names, with intention, holding them in place like precious stones in a ring.
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For one thing, there's a recent trend toward choosing engagement rings with colored stones or semi-precious stones rather than diamonds.
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Since 2012, Rosan Diamond has designed bespoke credit cards for the 1% made with gold, diamonds, pearls, and other precious stones.
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Yet long before this hue of ground semi-precious stones, there was a synthetic blue pigment widely used in ancient Egypt.
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The jewelry designer Irene Neuwirth went from painting animals as a kid to carving them out of precious stones as an adult.
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Mansudae works in a variety of mediums: woodcuts, oil paintings, charcoal drawings, embroideries, and even jeweled paintings made with semi-precious stones.
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Bhagat designs are notable for an emphasis on precious stones, diamonds, natural pearls, emeralds, rubies and sapphires, with very little metal involved.
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As in the rest of the world, most of them are digging for gold, diamonds and semi-precious stones such as tourmaline.
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Poking through a sea of gold glitter was an assortment of what appeared to be precious stones, minerals, and shards of glass.
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They're precious stones, including hermatite Coruscant, Pheonix stone Alderaan, yellow agate Tatooine, white turquoise Endor, jade Yavin 4, and bright orange agate Bespin.
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The bangle collection, known as Aries, is available in four different hand-cut, semi-precious stones: Lapis, Tourmalated Quartz, Rainbow Moonstone and Labradorite.
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"Cartier has always used spinels," he said, but less frequently after World War II, when precious stones like diamonds and emeralds were favored.
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One of Caligula's last allies was his beloved racehorse, Incitatus, who wore a collar of precious stones and lived in a marble stall.
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The exchange features 41 viewing tables, private cabins, and white crystal windows that allow for accurate appraisal of the color of precious stones.
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Balanchine presumably found it ironic that the public recognised the value of his art only when his dancers were trussed up like precious stones.
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Kane's metallic crocs are decorated with precious stones, such as diaspro, red leopard malachite and zebra jasper and will actually be produced and sold.
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Now, the Los Angeles-based designer makes her first foray into fine jewelry, unveiling a delicate new collection of precious and semi-precious stones.
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Others commission pieces worth hundreds of thousands of euros, with precious stones in eye-catching colors to complement their latest sneaker or handbag purchases.
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In addition, the tree is decorated with precious stones, designer jewelry, and 3D-printed chocolate peacocks and ostrich eggs (which are edible), CNN reported.
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In the past, tribes would decorate themselves with feathers or precious stones to set them apart from other tribe members and attract potential mates.
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"The hollow eyes, which were probably filled with glass or precious stones, date it to the first centuries of the empire," Parisi Presicce says.
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To kick off the festivities, Huitzilopochtli worshippers would fill a clay pot with feathers and precious stones and hang it at the base of temples.
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Some believe that crystals can help with your emotional needs, and many think that these precious stones can even aid with healing and personal growth.
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"It will further enhance Geneva's position as a major hub in the worldwide jewelry and precious stones markets for amateurs and professionals alike," he said.
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I particularly appreciated the room with Russian precious objects from the 12th century, with its collection of jewels and objects in silver and precious stones.
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A felony conviction restricts access to professions as disparate as teaching, purchasing precious stones and metals, becoming a private investigator or operating a funeral home.
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From the outside, the store, at Madison Avenue and 22006th Street, looked like "an outsized brooch with precious stones," The New Yorker wrote in 22008.
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The restrictions that were lifted applied solely to United States government aid to the government of Myanmar, not to trade in jade and precious stones.
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The high priest in ancient Jerusalem displayed 12 precious stones attached to a breast-plate which incorporated threads of gold, blue, purple, scarlet and pale linen.
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The wedding invitation includes necklaces and precious stones stacked in a two-tier floral box, at a cost of 300,000 rupees each ($4,236), India Today said.
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Prices range from $5 for a 2-gallon child's bucket up to $1,000 for bins designed for those who are really serious about finding precious stones.
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In order to recreate the four Florentine mosaic scenes on display in the chamber, semi-precious stones were sourced across the Soviet Union, Pakistan, and Italy.
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While studying at the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, California, he fell in love with the ultra-magnified images of precious stones in his textbook.
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Mr. Poly first became involved with jewelry during what he described as "the old days of flea markets" in Montreal, selling gold items and precious stones.
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She also shunned a proposal to include jewelry, precious stones, artwork and antiques from the program while barring a proposal to allow payment of fines in installments.
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Under Australian regulations, one can pay millions in cash for precious stones or a prime property without having to identify themselves or the source of their funds.
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Inside the tent for Oracle Team USA, which won the most recent America's Cup, in 2013, workers were wet-sanding the boat's red rudders like precious stones.
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And from that metal body, three layers encrusted with a total of 6,023 small precious stones — particularly sapphires and yellow diamonds — took flight as the butterfly's wings.
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The collection, which includes precious stones, sculptures and decorations some from gold and silver, was started in the 18th century by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony.
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It has not helped that his estranged stepdaughter has publicly railed about how her parents kept "money in briefcases" and "safes full of jewels, precious stones and cash".
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The workshop was founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici in 20043 for the inlay of precious stones but now is the major institution for the conservation of art.
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The jewelry house became known for its signature traforato, or pierced, gold work, a richly ornate style in which precious stones are attached with bezels rather than prongs.
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Other exhibits in Dresden include a table-sized sculpture of an Indian royal court from the 18th century, made out of gold, silver, enamel, precious stones and pearls.
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Workers, many of them migrants from elsewhere in Myanmar, toil long hours in dangerous conditions for little pay searching for precious stones, which are highly valued in neighboring China.
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Washington's remaining sanctions on Myanmar are narrowly targeted: They apply to the trade in jade and precious stones, and to doing business with some military officials or their affiliates.
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The astonishing final design, 55 meters long, counted six tons of amber and other semi-precious stones, whose warm glow was reflected by candlelight in the room's many mirrors.
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Former Prime Minister Wen Jiabao was disgraced after a New York Times report showed how his family members accumulated more than $2.7 billion, including large investments in precious stones.
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Prior to meeting Valerie, my knowledge of crystals, and crystal healing, was limited to a brief flirtation I had at the age of eight or nine with precious stones.
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An obviously keen eye and dry sense of humor is behind this throng of carved skulls decorated with precious stones, skeletons, amulets, rosaries, and engravings from Europe and Asia.
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Precious stones from legitimate sources like Canada, Botswana or Russia "can easily be mixed" with conflict stones once they get sent to a sorting house in another region, Smillie said.
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Wheeler appropriates Faure's orientalized vision of the paintings, with its many allusions to exotic colors, precious stones, and glistening metals, almost as if the MoMA curator had invented the metaphors.
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In Sierra Leone, these so-called "blood diamonds" fueled a decade-long civil war in which rebels forced civilians to mine the precious stones, and purchased weapons with the proceeds.
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Diamond prices had a terrible 2015, but reduced production and inventories coupled with increasing retail demand are helping to brighten prospects for the precious stones and the miners extracting them.
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"These tools include smuggling drugs, liquor, and precious stones, counterfeiting US dollars and cigarettes and exploiting diplomatic immunity," said Moriuchi, a former top National Security Agency official on East Asia.
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At the front of the restaurant is a small storefront full of Tibetan antiques, jewelry and precious stones, things that Mr. Bachan loves finding and knows his neighbors like wearing.
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Harle said that focusing a business in a particular geographical area, or on a particular type of stone, doesn't automatically insulate a company from human rights abuses associated with precious stones.
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IN THE poster for "Abdullah's Harem" (1955), a British comedy film, a man in a fez clutches strings of precious stones while 13 women in diaphanous bikinis pout and pose seductively.
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While traditional mandalas are made from sand, Israeli artist Rafael Anteby makes them with everything from gold and diamonds to semi-precious stones and other nontraditional materials sourced from the Himalayas.
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Rare Carat also culled the average amounts people are paying for the precious stones (mind you, this is just for the diamond itself, not the setting or design costs), by state.
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Along with Colin Firth and his wife, Livia, Chopard celebrated the latest Green Carpet collection as part of a collaboration with Gemfields, the precious stones supplier, to produce ethically sourced emeralds.
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It's a trek full of surprises and we encounter mud pools made by wild pigs and the remnants of a temple that was pillaged for its precious stones after the earthquake.
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"We're talking not only gold and platinum, but diamonds," he said, referring to the abundance of precious stones that are stockpiled by companies like De Beers in order to maintain prices.
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Cell phone cases encrusted with imaginary deities made from mother of pearl and semi precious stones — a fake history bejeweling the present — are scattered in the faux dig sites like abandoned tools.
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"The challenge was to take inherently hard materials like metals and precious stones, and weave them like fabric to produce a result that both looked and felt like tweed," Mr. Leguéreau said.
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The Hong Kong Trade Development Council postponed two jewellery shows, scheduled for March 2-23 and 4-8, where precious stones, rough and polished diamonds, pearls and other jewels are displayed and sold.
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Companies linked to Prigozhin have been involved in the deployment of Russian private soldiers in return for lucrative oil, gas and precious stones contracts in Sudan, the Central African Republic, Syria and elsewhere.
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To jump on the tech-meets-fashion theme, he also sported a specially-designed lapel pin by British jeweler Husam El Odeh that was made with a microchip pattern and semi-precious stones.
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When permission was granted, Mr. Bolton returned for many more trips and, with Father Benedik, refined the list of objects to borrow, including a papal tiara with 19,000 precious stones, including 18,000 diamonds.
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The couture in Vogue's pages was also featured in a United States-sponsored exhibition I visited here in Dubai focusing on Afghan exports, including carpets, fruits and nuts, and marble and precious stones.
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Sater continued to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda and bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks, working with a precious stones dealer who had his own intelligence contacts inside the Taliban and Northern Alliance.
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Its narrow definition of conflict diamonds—that trade in these precious stones supports rebel factions—also allowed Zimbabwe to sell certified diamonds, even though their sale propped up the regime of dictator Robert Mugabe.
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They are made in 18-karat gold and precious stones, with prices from £750 to £11,600 ($985 to $15,230), that she sells online or through Frost of London, the British jewelry and watch retailer.
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These alternative gemstones, such as opal and amethyst, are generally more affordable than precious stones, which include diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires, and millennials are choosing to save the money for other financial goals.
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And artisanal mining probably represents around 2000-280 percent of all global minerals and metals production, first and foremost gold, diamonds and other precious stones, according to the International Institute for Environment and Development.
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Why it matters: The treasury of Augustus the Strong of Saxony was established in 1723, and today contains around 4,000 objects of gold, precious stones and other materials on display in Dresden's Royal Palace.
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The numbers are as jaw-dropping as the price tag: The Fantasy Bra took 700 hours to create using nearly 9,000 precious stones and 18-karat gold, and the gems include both diamonds and emeralds.
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They brought me Chex cereal (the only thing I could eat) and threw me baby showers; one woman gave me a collection of precious stones, each with a different message of strength for my journey.
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Kings would gift extraordinary objects to other rulers to impress them with their wealth, such as a windup automaton that poured wine or a boat carved of gold and set with hundreds of precious stones.
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Meanwhile the Enforcement Directorate, India's financial crime agency, said on Saturday it conducted additional searches at 21 locations of companies tied to Modi, seizing 250 million rupees ($3.89 million) in precious stones, metals and jewelry.
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Yet these precious stones, retrieved from soil and river sediments in Thailand, are riddled with tunnel networks that had been previously chalked up to non-biological forces, especially erosive weathering processes associated with riverbed environments.
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She added that customers of the online retail site are favoring large hoop earrings and asymmetric earrings and chokers, as well as designs that mix offbeat stones like opals, lapis and turquoise with precious stones.
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"Back in the 1990s, there was no diamond industry in Dubai," says Martin Leake, special adviser for precious stones at the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, a free zone where the Dubai Diamond Exchange is incorporated.
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At the same time, his bright silk and sequined clothes and capes, his impressive jewels made of colorful, precious stones and the elegance with which he moved his hands felt like the embrace of a matriarch.
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Fine jewelry — pieces made with high-quality materials like solid 14-karat gold or precious stones (or both) and a high-level of craftsmanship — costs a lot of money, understandably so when you consider the process.
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With a lightness and sense of play that is typically reserved for fashion jewelry, Khouri realizes seemingly miraculous designs in exquisite precious stones that have won fans such as the actresses Carey Mulligan and Charlize Theron.
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They bar trade in items that could be used militarily or for repression, luxury goods, precious stones and metals and equipment or technology for some oil and gas sectors including exploration and production, refining and gas liquefaction.
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Mayan tooth inlaid with jade This example dates from A.D. 2000 to 21970 and is a good example of the Mayan skill at drilling holes in teeth, presumably without touching the gum, and setting in precious stones.
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I had noticed that while affordable jewelry brands using precious metals existed at a price point from £200 to £700, few designers then went to the expense of actually setting precious stones, so I started doing that.
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He's not a hero exactly, except perhaps a tragic one: a man whose gifts and whose flaws are, like 5,000 carats' worth of precious stones stuck in the middle of a worthless rock, inseparable, complicated and beautiful.
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Of course, statement earrings have framed faces for a while (think J.W. Anderson's sell-out abstract faces and Simone Rocha's pearl door-knockers), but surely the most party-worthy are those embellished with crystals, rhinestones and precious stones?
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The most valuable precious stones from the Crown Jewels were hidden in a cookie tin and buried at Windsor Castle to keep them from being stolen by the Nazis during World War II, according to a new report.
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Tiny Yellow Gold Rainbow Huggie, available at The Last Line, $210 eachA rainbow of precious stones line this 14-karat yellow gold, lobe-hugging pair that's sure to add a pop of color to all of her ensembles.
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Chief Executive Avi Taub, an orthodox Jew, says he founded the company based on a conversation he had with a revered rabbi who told him that precious stones were divinely buried in a valley near the city of Haifa.
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Ms. Young has worked with South Sea pearls — she lived in Australia for a while when she was married to an Australian — and currently works with semiprecious and sometimes precious stones set in silver or vermeil, gold over silver.
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India is a polytheistic society, so many parents want charms like those of baby Krishna and other religious symbols like the Om crafted in various metals and precious stones, mostly 23-karat gold, the unequivocal symbol of prosperity in India.
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One person working for the campaign described packets of gold and precious stones piled on the bed in the room of a Russian operative, another sign that the people entrusted with the mission were often more interested in profit than politics.
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The Lindau Gospels, a ninth-century illuminated manuscript encased in a gold binding encrusted with precious stones, is on display in the east room of the Morgan's original building on Madison Avenue, in brighter light than the standard 50 lux.
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I had it on the Amiga—in fact, I'm nearly absolutely certain it came with it, when my dad bought it home from some shop in Southampton that may have been called Diamond Computers, or some play on precious stones.
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Not only have you helped to build a whole new town by the end of the exercise, and got yourself some very precious stones as a prize, but Hudson's fallen in love with one of the people you convinced to join his team.
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That bulk is down to a solid gold frame, a regal purple velvet cap, a layer of fur, and the addition of 444 precious semi-precious stones, which were permanently affixed ahead of King George V's (the Queen's grandfather) coronation in 1911.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Diamonds can at last be an investor's best friend, the Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDIX) said on Tuesday, as it launched a new standardized form of the precious stones to rival gold ingots as a safe-haven alternative to cash.
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In the case of North Korea, the U.N. defines luxury goods as: Jewellery and precious stones, yachts, luxury cars, racing cars, luxury watches, snowmobiles, jet skis, recreational sports equipment, tableware worth more than $100 and rugs or tapestries worth more than $500.
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So, naturally, when James Packer, her boyfriend of nearly a year, popped the question last night in N.Y.C., he came armed with an engagement ring that would blow the rest of the singer's arsenal of mega-watt precious stones out of the water. 247PAPS.
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New Enterprise Associates, the 42-year-old venture capital firm, has invested in the $23 million Series B round for Mejuri, a startup capturing millennial women's penchant for affordable and treat yo' self type of jewelry rather than diamonds and precious stones for special occasions.
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The New York-based jewelry designer Anna Hu, also a first-time exhibitor, will show 20 of her creations at the Biennale, including a bracelet and two necklaces influenced by Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" that are made from sapphires, diamonds and other precious stones.
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The high jewelry business — one-of-a-kind pieces priced from $22018,27 to several million dollars and often handcrafted in Vendôme ateliers to showcase precious stones and advanced artisanal techniques — has been turned on its head by a generational shift in its traditional clientele.
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BERLIN — Thieves broke into a museum in the eastern German city of Dresden early Monday and made off with three collections of jewelry from the royal house of Saxony, made of gold and precious stones, that authorities said were of immeasurable historical and cultural value.
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The Oscar winner is among an elite circle of Hollywood and Silicon Valley backers behind Diamond Foundry, a Bay Area company that claims it uses technology to accomplish what alchemists and others have attempted in vain for centuries: growing diamonds and other precious stones from scratch.
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But these precious stones weren't hunkered behind glass cases or locked in safes in the basement—they were happily prancing around the historic building, draped on the necks, wrists and ears of the A-list guests, including Reese Witherspoon, Naomi Watts, Jessica Biel, Diane Kruger and more.
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Apart from the brand's standard collection, which predominantly consists of precious stones and spiritual symbols, Carolyn Rafaelian, the founder and CEO of ALEX AND ANI, has created several memorable limited-edition collections revolving around themes such as Mickey Mouse, Day of the Dead and Harry Potter.
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"The situation is so complex, you cannot guarantee that every specimen is not coming with a certain amount of pain," said Adolf Peretti, a gemologist who runs GemResearch Swisslab, a private lab that specializes in tracking the origin of gems and precious stones like amber from Myanmar.
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Using state-of-the-art scientific techniques, petals of live flowers such as roses, peonies and anemones were preserved, set in fine layers of titanium, finished with a light lacquer gloss and then ornamented with precious stones like garnets and sapphires, and stamens of pink gold.
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And a pair of earrings with one small pink pearl stud teamed with a larger opal that dangled on a chain, encircled by a pavé pattern of tiny precious stones — mandarin garnets, peridots, emeralds and purple sapphires — looking like the colors of the rainbow on brushed gold.
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An obviously keen eye and dry sense of humor is behind this throng (180 pieces) of mostly carved skulls decorated with precious stones, carved skeletons, flamboyant ivory amulets, nerve-jangling luxe rosaries, disconcerting trinkets, unsettling engravings, and carved wood and marble objects from Europe and Asia.
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The Oscar winner is among an elite circle of Hollywood and Silicon Valley backers behind Diamond Foundry (Disruptor No. 33), a Bay Area company that claims it uses technology to accomplish what alchemists and others have attempted in vain for centuries: growing diamonds and other precious stones from scratch.
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"She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones," so the narrative goes, "and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart" (I Kings 10 v.33-13).
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The exhibition is only 30 minutes' walk, but a million miles away in intention, from Damien Hirst's luxuriously presented "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable", where all the works—in silver, gold, precious stones, marble, malachite and bronze—are for sale at prices that range from $500,000 to $5m.
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Discovered off the steps of the Aztec's holiest temple during the reign of the empire's most powerful ruler, the sacrificial offerings also include a young boy, dressed to resemble the Aztec war god and solar deity, and a set of flint knives elaborately decorated with mother of pearl and precious stones.
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Although there is little evidence as to the exact date, they may have traveled to this area in southwest India in search of spices, precious stones, timber and ivory tusks as early as the 10th century B.C., around the time the Bible tells us Solomon was seeking treasures to build his temple.
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Inside, spiral-shaped gold ear cuffs that resemble fiddlehead ferns, stacking rings inset with precious stones and long gold-chain necklaces with lithe rectangular links are arranged within an oversize vitrine alongside air plants, scarlet feathers and hollow nutshells to evoke a rainforest floor; a chunk of fossilized wood rests atop as a sculptural centerpiece.
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Included in the selection of Presidential-caliber precious stones to hit the auction block this fall are the 27th First Lady's Van Cleef & Arpels diamond and gold lion pendant/brooch necklace and matching diamond and gold lion ear clips worn on a state visit to the U.K. in 2000, worth an estimated $000,2280 and $2000,21 respectively.
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Myanmar's precious stones are known abroad for their exceptionally high quality, and Ms. Thiri Tin Htut's family has been in the gem business since the 19953th century: Her great-great-grandfather, U Hmat, was the chief ruby miner for Thibaw, the country's last imperial king, and later generations worked as gem miners or traders in Myanmar, Thailand and Europe.
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The three sections correspond to the collection's three elements — magic of life, magic of design and magic of reality — and are separated by half-cut pages of tracing paper that not only draws attention but "also symbolize the purity and lightness of Cartier's precious stones and settings," Suzanne Isore, executive editor of Flammarion's Styles and Design division, said in an email.
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A blanket woven in a green malachite pattern resembles a group of Victorian rocks painted to mimic precious stones that McNanney keeps in his living room; an oversize emerald velvet cushion he brought back from Mongolia, where he travels each spring to work with the artisans in Ulaanbaatar who weave his cashmere pieces, recently inspired a collection of silk cut-velvet pillows.
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In one of his many notebooks, Mr. Aubry keeps a list of the projects, including more important pieces with precious stones, decorative objects, an exhibition, a book and reviving artist and designer collaborations (Arthus-Bertrand owns Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's first, scaled-down mold for the Statue of Liberty; past collaborators include François-Xavier Lalanne, Salvador Dalí, César and Hilton McConnico).
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In his nearly hourlong remarks, the pope sought to explain his approach to effective diplomacy ("one half step back, one step forward") and strategic communications ("the most important thing is that the message gets across") and even offered his geopolitical analysis, explaining that someone had told him that the area of Myanmar where the Rohingya lived was "rich in precious stones" and that outside interests perhaps wanted it emptied for mining.
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