"Everything becomes extremely low value. The diamonds formed millions of years ago, they are because so few survived along the journey from the depths of the earth to its surface. In fact, although its production has increased in recent years, surprising to learn that throughout history have managed to extract only about 500 tons. And that number, only half considered gem quality, and even fewer are large enough to carve worth. As reference could say that rarely chosen to be carved at a size greater than a match head.

Get a relatively small amount of gem quality and industrial diamonds is not easy, even with sophisticated technology. You need to extract and process approximately 250 tons of ore a fireplace kimberlite for a diamond of gem quality.



Where from?

Before getting into the hands of a woman, a diamond probably will go through four continents and through the hands of hundreds of people. Skilled artisans have to acquire highly specialized to carry out the complicated process of extracting and polishing a diamond. Although diamonds are extracted for the first time in India 2800 years ago, modern industry was born with the findings of South Africa in the late nineteenth century.

Today, however, in terms of volume, the five major producing countries, leading supplier of rough diamonds and responsible for 90% of world production, are: Australia, Zaire, Botswana, Russia, South Africa and Namibia " .

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