Swarovski fall/winter 2008/2009

For the season fall/winter 2008/2009 Swarovski announced briliance and glamour for all its products. The color of the sensuality and style, the green has a strong presence in the future collection of Swarovski house.

Swarovski International Press Release:

For Autumn/Winter 2008/09, Swarovski has created new opal colours, effects, stone
cuts and Semi-finished Products to bring brilliance and stylish understated glamour
into seasonal garments, jewellery and interior design pieces. The world leader in
precision-cut crystal again releases trend-oriented additions to its product range, allowing designers to explore their creativity to suit the Autumn/Winter 2008/09 trend themes that are all about creating your own identity.

New Opal Colours for Sensuality and Style

Green is the colour of life and of nature’s rebirth. The new colour Palace Green Opal is
symbolic of an era where people show increased ecological awareness and seek ways to
live harmoniously in a tumultuous and fast-moving world. Palace Green Opal, a perfect
complement to the other opal colours within the CRYSTALLIZED – Swarovski Elements
assortment, is inspired by precious stones and available in a whole range of Crystal
Elements and Semi-finished Products. The colour Light Grey Opal is a beautiful and

discrete addition to the opaline collection and is symbolic of consensus, compromise and
harmony. In times where black and white opinions dominate society, Light Grey Opal
creates a subtle elegance and exudes sophistication and mystery. This new colour is available in a range of Crystal Elements and Semi-finished Products including Crystal Yarn.

New Crystal Pearl Effect

Crystal Antique Brass Pearl is a new extension to the range of classic effects that are
subtle, versatile and refined. Crystal Pearls are an expression of the harmony, romantic and
glamour themes for the Autumn/Winter 2008/09 season and are perfect for everything from
ready-to-wear to haute couture and accessories. Crystal Antique Brass Pearl is also
reminiscent of the metal tones in all nuances that are still present on the catwalks.

Swarovski Explores New Product Design Language

The Galactic Family explores Swarovski’s new design language and features unique
shapes that seem to be inspired by outer space and are characterised by brilliant, irregular
cuts. Very appealing in a unisex way, these asymmetric, yet regular shapes open up
interesting design possibilities. The collection includes Galactic Sew-on Stone, Galactic
Fancy Stone, Galactic Bead, Galactic Vertical Pendant and Galactic Horizontal
Pendant.

These eye-catching cuts come in a range of inspiring colours and effects.
The Twist Family features a classic, round shape with a subtle twist that adds a modern
touch. The beautiful facets create a high brilliance. The Twist Family includes Twist Bead,
Twist Pendant and Twist Sew-on Stone, which can also be used as a joining element
between Beads, Pendants and Crystal Pearls due to its large hole.

Other exciting innovations for the Autumn/Winter 2008/09 season include the XILION
Square, a stylish graphic cut with dazzling brilliance.

Among the Semi-finished Products, Crystal Transfabric – a fusion of XILION and Flat
Backs Crystal Fabric – is an ideal product, especially for sports- and casualdesigns. The
Chaton- and Flat Back Bandings feature smaller stones, so there are more crystals on the
surface to create a "Mesh Look" suitable for textiles and accessories.

112 years ago, in 1895, Daniel Swarovski I, a Bohemian inventor and visionary, moved to
the village of Wattens, Tyrol in Austria, with his newly-invented machine for cutting and
polishing crystal jewellery stones. From these beginnings, which revolutionised the fashion
world, Swarovski has grown to be the world’s leading producer of precision-cut crystal, for
fashion, jewellery and more recently lighting, architecture and interiors. Today, the
company, still based in Wattens, family-owned and run by 4th and 5th generation family
members, has a global reach, with some 20,000 employees, a presence in over 120
countries and a turnover in 2006 of 2,37 billion Euros. Swarovski comprises two major
divisions, one producing and selling loose crystals to the industry and the other creating
design-driven finished products. Swarovski crystal components, known by their product brand names CRYSTALLIZE– Swarovski Elements for fashion and STRASS.

Swarovski Crystal for architecture and light, have become an essential ingredient of
international design. Showing the creativity that lies at the heart of the company,
Swarovski’s own-brand lines of accessories, jewellery and home décor are sold through
more than 1150 Swarovski stores and concessions in all major fashion capitals, while the
exclusive Daniel Swarovski accessories collection has become the company’s Couture
signature.

The Swarovski Crystal Society has close to 400,000 members worldwide, keen
collectors of the celebrated crystal figurines. And in Wattens, Crystal Worlds, the multimedia
crystal museum, has attracted over 7 million visitors since it was opened in 1995, as
a celebration of Swarovski’s universe of innovation and inspiration, of crystal as the ultimate
creative material. The Swarovski corporation also includes four industrial brands, Tyrolit®,
manufacturing grinding tools, Swareflex, for road safety reflectors, Optik, producing
precision optical instruments and Signity, Swarovski’s brand for genuine and created
gemstones.

Illuminating Fashion and Culture, Home and Leisure www.swarovski.com
Source: Swarovski International

Vaaldiam Resources Ltd.: Diamond Grade Increases From Brauna 11 Sampling

Let's see what Vaaldiam Resources Ltd., the company who produces diamonds from its sampling release concerning the situation on diamonds market.

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Vaaldiam Resources Ltd. Press Release:

Vaaldiam Resources Ltd. continues to produce significant diamond results from its sampling of the Brauna 11 dike situated on the Company's 100% owned Brauna property in the State of Bahia, Brazil. A second mini-bulk sample has returned 21 diamonds with a total weight of 2.50 carats from 12.16 dry tonnes of kimberlite (13.33 wet tonnes), indicating a recovered grade of 20.56 carats per hundred tonnes (cpht).This second mini-bulk sample was excavated 200 metres to the northwest of Vaaldiam's initial sample site (reported on October 3, 2007) which produced 19 diamonds with a total weight of 2.81 carats from 16.02 dry tonnes of kimberlite (17.67 wet tonnes), indicating a recovered grade of 17.54 carats per hundred tonnes (cpht).

The average stone size of the diamonds recovered from this second mini-bulk sample was 0.12 carats. The five largest stones recovered in the mini-bulk sample weigh 0.87, 0.35, 0.33, 0.17 and 0.13 carats. The diamonds are predominantly white to yellowish-white in colour, with one brown stone (0.35 carats). Roughly half of the diamonds show well-formed crystal shapes, while the balance appear to be fragments due to breakage during processing, or are natural irregular stones. Photos of the diamonds recovered from the mini-bulk sample of Brauna 11 are available for viewing on the Company's website atwww.vaaldiam.com.The Brauna 11 kimberlite occurrence is a 1.5 to 2.5 metre wide, vertically oriented kimberlite dike situated approximately 2 kilometres south of the diamond bearing Brauna 3 and Brauna 7 pipes.

To date, the dike has been traced on surface over a distance of approximately 750 metres and it appears to form part of a northwest-trending dike system that has been traced on surface over a distance of approximately 15 kilometres. Vaaldiam's first sample was extracted from a 6 metre deep shaft that allowed the excavation of fresh kimberlite which does not appear to be diluted by soil and calcrete overlying the dike system. The second most recent sample was excavated from an 8 metre deep shaft located 200 metres to the northwest of the initial sample site.

Ken Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vaaldiam commented that "these latest results from the Brauna 11 dike confirm the lateral continuity of the diamond mineralization within the Brauna 11 dike system. We now plan to delineate the dike system by core drilling, in an effort to expand the resource potential of the Brauna property, and determine the relationship between this diamond bearing dike and the diamond bearing Brauna 3 and Brauna 7 kimberlite pipes situated immediately to the north, which were the focus of our bulk sampling efforts earlier this year."

The mini-bulk sample collected from the Brauna 11 kimberlite was processed at Vaaldiam's dense media plant situated in Vaaldiam's secure facilities in the town of Nordestina, just 5 kilometres from the Brauna property. The processing plant consists of a crushing and feed circuit, a 300 kilogram per hour dense media separation module and a secure diamond recovery circuit capable of recovering diamonds larger than 0.85 mm using a square mesh screen. Simulated diamond tracers with a density similar to diamond were used to measure the efficiency of the plant.

Vaaldiam's geologists and technicians implemented strict chain-of-custody procedures during the extraction and processing of the sample to ensure the security of the sample. Reprocessing of the plant tailings was completed as part of an audit of the processing plant efficiency to ensure the highest recovery rate is achieved for the sample processing.

This release has been reviewed by Jose Ricardo Pisani, Vice President, Exploration who is a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101. For additional information regarding Vaaldiam please visit www.vaaldiam.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. In certain cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved".

Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, risks related to international operations; risks related to joint venture operations; actual results of current exploration activities; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, future prices of resources; possible variations in reserves, grade or recovery rates, accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; and delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities.

Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results to differ from those anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

Source:Vaaldiam Resources Ltd.