comptoir d'achat

English translation: Buying office

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French term or phrase:	comptoir d'achat
English translation:	Buying office
Entered by:	Simon de Swardt

15:43 Feb 5, 2007

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Tech/Engineering - Mining & Minerals / Gems / Mining Company structure document

French term or phrase: comptoir d'achat

• Faire toutes operations de comptoir d’achat de diamante, d’or et des substances minérales précieuses et semi-précieuse, des opérations d’études, de prospection, de recherche et d’exploitation de substances minérales concessibles, ainsi que toutes opérations de concentration et de traitement métallurgique et chimique, de transformation, de commercialisation d’exportation de ces substances et de leurs dérivés, legénie et l’ingénierie civile et minière et toutes les opérations de nature à favoriser la réalisation de cet objet social.

Hi - This is from a document describing company structure. This section is the very first paragraphs of the 'objets' - please help with the 'comptoir d'achat' in the beginning. (I don't much like GDT's offer 'of common purchasing agency'!)
Thanks
Simon

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Buying office

Explanation:
When I was exploring for diamonds on behalf of Diamond Corp. in Côte d'Ivoire in the 1960s, our Abidjan office included a buying office for rough diamonds, staffed by diamond buyers sent out from DiCorp's London HQ. I guess you could also say "purchasing office" if you wanted it to sound more fancy.

See also : http://www.diamants-infos.com/en/rough/index.php?rub=rough_p...

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procurement

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Carry out all gold, diamond and precious & semi-precious mineral procurement operations ...

I suspect we use different phraseology in English, if only because the concept of "comptoir" - trading post - dates back to slaves and blankets, land and muskets, and the days when trappers traded scalps (usually, eventually, their own, when they were dead or dying) for pelts while they were still alive.

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Buying office

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