Diamonds

 just the right gift for the right person. Maybe a engagement diamond set on a gold ring will brighten the eyes of a lady.

All this diamonds come in different colors just like a rainbow, like pink diamonds, red diamond, blue diamond, yellow diamond or just plain and flawless.

Colored diamonds command a high price at auction. Christie's sold a much smaller 13.39 carat blue diamond for $8.9 million.

Yellow Diamond

Yellow diamonds are in this days, mounted in a beautiful ring, as a pendant, diamond earrings or just a solitaire it looks real good, together with some gold or platinum  they fetch high prices. The 603 carat white diamond, the Lesotho Promise was sold in Antwerp for US$12.36 million. The uncut

Lesotho Promise 603 Carat Diamond

diamond, which has been named The Lesotho Promise, is the largest gem-quality diamond found this century and ranks as the 15th largest diamond ever found.

The diamond stone was recovered at Letseng Diamond Mine in Lesotho, southern Africa. The Mine is owned and operated by Gem Diamond Mining Company of Africa Ltd, with its 30% partner the Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho.

Graff Jewelers submitted the winning bid of US$12.36 million. Diamond carat, diamond earrings, diamond gold, diamond heart, diamond pendants, Lesotho Promise, Graff Jewelers, diamond

Colored Diamonds

Diamond Jewelry

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The diamond jewelry picture right above shows an example what a excellent diamond cutter can get out of one big diamond of the size of the Lesotho promise diamond.

-Traditionally, colorless and flawless diamonds fetch the higher prices.

This is changing, driven by celebrities such as Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Lopez and other.

for reflecting the pink hue. The pink diamonds found in the Argyle diamond mine are clear under the microscopic.

diamond crystals in his enormous collection of over 8,000 total diamond specimens. The Austrian banker and businessman Jacob Friedrich von der Null, whose huge mineral collection, curetted by the prominent mineralogist Friedrich Mohs, was considered to be the best in Vienna had 36 diamond crystals (Mohs, 1804)

-Where diamonds are mined

Before the second half of the 19th century, diamonds were mined from alluvium only, that is soil or sediments deposited washed out by a river or running water. The great South African diamond findings in the 1860's revealed that the very rare rock type kimberlite is the true home of diamond deposits.The first diamond crystals were found loose in the so-called "yellow ground" of weathered kimberlite, and the unaltered "blue ground" below showed diamonds too.

A similar Diamond stone was found before and estimated to have a value of about 12 million U.S. dollars.

This Lesotho diamond called the “Lesotho Promise” is even more pure and has presumably more value. The Lesotho promise diamond could be cut to a 150 carat diamond and thus more valuable than any of the British Crown Jewels: The Koh-i-Noor, the British “aquired” as colonial bounty in the 19th Century in India had 105 carats.

The most valuable diamond so far is the Great Star of Africa with 530 carats. The drop-shaped diamond was cut and polished from the 1905 discovered Cullinan Mine diamond, that diamond had 3106 carats as a raw diamond stone. The Letseng mine in Lesotho belongs to 70 percent to the London-registered company Gem Diamonds and 30 percent to the government of Lesotho.

But probably the first diamonds came from India, already to the ancient Romans Indian diamonds were well known and they were traded around the "Gulf of Cambay" (presently Gulf of Khambat, near Mumbai)

From the days of the Romans, through the centuries and into the Renaissance the diamond road was from India to Europe. One trade route was overland via Persia - today Iran- and Byzantium to Rome and Venice. A southern route was by ship through the Indian Ocean and through Arabia to Alexandria in Egypt and the final destination was again Italy.

In the new age companies such as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Harry Winston and Tiffany took over and they did a good job, but sometimes not so good. I still have a Harry Winston timepiece called watch for about $ 10.000. It was, over years not possible to wear since Harry Winston cant fix a bracelet or band on it which would last for more than 3 month. I took this to Harry Winston in Geneva for repair, no way, they are too stupid to fix the band to the timepiece lasting for more than 3 month and this went on for about 12 years. So stay away from this company they are amateurs even worst than a watch band seller at the Patpong night market at Bangkok, Thailand, you know where the Thai Bar Girls and go-go girls are.. The guy fixed this in 15 minutes and after it was always ok, he took 2 dollars to fix, Harry Winston takes $ 200,- and fixes nothing, this amateurs are really sickening.

When you buy a gold diamond ring be also very careful, because you are focused on this outstanding piece of princess cut diamond which finally is the center of the ring the company who makes the the ring know you wont be very bullish on the gold, so they mix a low level gold together. This is rampant in Asian countries, in particular Thailand.

A jewelry price is the diamond and the gold or platinum, titanium or silver. Interestingly the purest gold they sell in the Gulf States and Switzerland, actually the Gulf States including Saudi Arabia usually purchase their gold and diamonds via Switzerland and not Antwerp or US because the diamond business in Antwerp and the US is 100% in Jewish hands.

Probable the most beautiful and valuable diamond jewelry today are color diamonds set in gold and the right cut diamond. One can say a lot about diamonds, diamond carat and cut diamonds but today's fashion is tending to princess cut and Asscher cut diamonds since they reflects the light like no other cut and they hide some impurities in a clever cutting manner.

However in which direction you turn it, a diamond is the king of gemstone and ruby is the undisputable queen.

The diamonds, rubies and other precious stones are the result of donations for the Shwedagon Pagoda over almost 2000 years.

Over time kings, queens and other people of Myanmar or Burma have continuously donated all kind of gold jewelry, Myanmar precious stones, loose diamonds, cut diamonds and rubies to be included into the diamond orb at the top of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon Myanmar.
Diamond Ruby Gold Jewelry

From time to time the Shwedagon Pagoda get renovated and then all the treasures at the top of the pagoda become visible. All this treasure has been donated for gain merits as it is usual with Buddhist people.

-Now the question is where do diamonds really come from?

This was a mystery until the South African kimberlite pipes were discovered. In 1905, De Beers general manager Gardner F. Williams published the -The Diamond Mines of South Africa-, but it didn't clear the picture on how and where diamonds form. In 1932, his son, Alpheus F. Williams, published his own work, -The Genesis of the Diamond-, with three theories. Some geologists thought that diamonds crystallized out of kimberlite magma during the time when the magma was solidifying in the pipe. After a long back and forward over dozens of years the picture how diamonds are formed got clear. Diamond stones are not products of the kimberlite but, as components of xenoliths, a diamond stone is more or less passenger on the kimberlite express to the surface. This discovery is the result of mid to late 20th-century research: first by modern geology research and second by using latest analytical studies utilizing sophisticated instruments for the investigation of the mineral components of the inclusions in diamonds. Research on inclusions in diamonds brought reasonable results only in the 1970's, with the availability of advanced X-ray diffraction techniques, electron and ion microprobe analyses, and the dating of trace isotopes. With this techniques 22 mineral materials have been identified as inclusions in diamonds.

Diamond Collection

Diamonds come up from depths in the range of 150-300 km below the surface. Radiometry dating of trace isotopes of Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, and U-Pb in the inclusions has revealed that all of the diamonds are around 3 billion years old. Since the discovery of the first African kimberlite, the worldwide hunt for more such formations has revealed a pattern of distribution: kimberlite are almost always found within the innermost, stable parts of continental shields. This is the general picture for most of the world's diamonds, but there are differences. E.g. in New South Wales, Australia about two million diamond crystals, with an aggregate weight of about 500,000 carats, have been found in alluvium in the Copeton-Bingara area, but no kimberlite have been found in the area. So there is still room for research and ideas where diamonds come from.

-The Diamond Mining Industry

make billions of dollars every year, the bosses are getting richer and richer and the people who actually dig the diamonds out of the earth, the river or elsewhere are let suffer for the sake of the bosses and similar to buy another Rolls etc. this is the same for other guys who get immense money on the back of the African diamond digger. Almost all the so called "white" people in the diamond business are Jewish, Lebanese and English, it is a typical panorama of grid.