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“Men grow cold as girls grow old, and we all lose our charms in the end. But square-cut or pear-shaped, these rocks don't lose their shape…Diamonds are a girl's best friend.” And so the famous song goes. They sparkle, they catch attention and they envelope anyone who wears them in elegance, no matter what age. Indeed, diamonds are a girl’s best friend. But before these rocks actually become those princess-cut or round-shaped gems we love, they first undergo a crude process entirely contrary to their appearance. The journey of the diamond towards that precious finger of the bride-to-be involves six stages: exploration, mining, sorting, cutting, detail, and jewelry design. Many diamonds reach up to 3.2 billion years old. They were formed under extremely hot conditions underneath the ground. The temperature ranges from 900 to 1300 degrees Celsius. Diamonds have the same carbon components just like graphite do. From 90 to 120 miles underneath the surface, volcanic eruptions extracted these, thus preventing them from transforming into graphite. When the magma cooled, it left cone-shaped pipes of bluish rock called kimberlite. Years of wind, rain, snow and ice eroded these kimberlites and released diamonds accompanied by indicator minerals. Continuous soil erosion transported these scattered these diamonds to various place around the world. And so begins the first two stages of the diamond’s journey. After the diamond sites have been explored and mined, these rocks undergo a thorough sorting to determine which the actual diamonds from the indicators. Once the genuine ones have been segregated, the beautification phase of the whole journey comes in—the cutting, detail, and jewelry design. In its default state, diamonds are actually coarse rocks. Their brilliance appears only when they are cut and shaped. Proportion is taken into serious consideration because a poorly cut stone results in poor optimization of its brilliance and fire. Each design gives a different kind of sparkle to every stone. After the rock has been cut and shaped, it is then turned into earrings, necklaces, or rings by embedding them in gold, silver, and other appropriate minerals. Diamonds come in different colors—white, silver, blue, yellow, green, brown and pink—but are very rare. Only 20 percent of mined diamonds are genuine. Because of this, purchasing a diamond adorned accessory would be enough wipe our bank accounts dry. That’s why over the years, several methods have been developed in forming man-made diamonds. They are created in hydraulic presses that mimic the pressure needed to form diamonds. These are less costly compared to genuine ones. |
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