Expensive sparkly ice will be coming from Canada soon as high-class jeweler Tiffany & Co. begins production early next year on diamonds from the Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories. Tiffany used to get their diamonds the old-fashioned way by buying cut stones at the diamond markets in Antwerp, Tel Aviv and New York (most likely funding DeBeers’ hefty cartel in the process). But with the bad press of African conflict diamonds and also their wish to control more of their jewelry manufacturing process, Tiffany has invested instead in Canada’s mining operations. Not to be left out in the cold, so to speak, DeBeers also has invested in a Canadian diamond mine, but production won’t begin until 2006 because of permitting delays. The negative publicity about conflict diamonds has certainly made an impact.