Archive for the 'Diamonds' Category

How Diamonds are Formed

Knowing how diamonds are formed gives couples an appreciation of the rarity and exclusivity of this traditional bridal gem. The newest diamonds on the planet are an astonishing 45 million years old, and the longevity of their beauty is the perfect symbol of a lifelong relationship.
 Basic Process of how Diamonds are formed
 Diamonds are the crystalline [...]

An Egg Sized Diamond Found in South Africa

A small diamond company has uncovered a huge 235-carat gem - the size of an hen’s egg - in South Africa only a few weeks after launching its operations, the firm said on Friday.
Nare Diamonds Ltd said it uncovered the rough gem on Wednesday after resuming mining in March at the Schmidtsdrift mine, 80 km [...]

What are Mystery Diamonds?

Carbonados, or black diamonds, have long been a mystery. They’re the oldest, toughest and rarest diamonds around. Now, some researchers have a theory about its origin, and it’s out of this world, literally.
Stephen Haggerty, Ph.D., a geoscientist at Florida International University in Miami, has been studying black diamonds for more than a decade. Dr. Haggerty [...]

Analysis of a Diamond

A lot of people think that the most essential characteristics of a diamond are the four Cs: color, carat weight, clearness, and cut. Correct savoir-faire shoppers, on the other hand, distinguish that low-grade diamonds can have deprived magnitudes or insufficient angles that detract from the stone’s exquisiteness and subordinate its price no matter how it [...]

Marquise Diamond

The uncomplicated however stylish lines of marquise diamond engagement rings  create them one of the very fashionable preferences for nuptial sets in addition to other intonated jewels and solitaires. This particular marquise shape is supposed to have originated in the early eighteenth century in France. It is also rumored that King Louis the fourteenth innovated [...]

The Centenary Diamond – Mystery Prevails

The diamond Jubilee of De Beers Consolidated Mines passed off quietly in 1948, the massive post-WWII growth and expansion of the diamond industry had barely begun, while several important sources of diamonds, including the Premier Mine, were still closed, while others remained to be discovered. Forty years later the annual output of diamonds exceeded 100 [...]

Nur-Ul-Ain Diamond

Nur-Ul-Ain is the most important whitish pink diamond of the crown made for Empress Farah’s wedding ceremony to the Shah of Iran; Moahammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1958 is planned by Harry Winston and mined at Golconda in Hyderabad, India. It is one of the biggest pink diamonds present in the world today, of course [...]

Strange Powers of the Nizam Diamond

There are a small amount of grand secrets kept from the acquaintance of the contemporary historian, who writes down the events of the time for the newspaper Press. An expensive stone of more than normal significance sees the light to-day, and to-morrow its beginning is very well known to the entire world. After that due [...]

The Hope Diamond

The Hope Diamond is a large (45.52 carat), deep blue diamond, currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. The diamond is legendary for the curse it supposedly puts on whoever possesses it. The Hope Diamond appears a brilliant blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within the diamond. The Hope [...]

Kohinoor: The Diamond is unfortunate for the Queen

Kohinoor, which is the costliest diamond of the world, has a history of passing luck or ill luck to its entire list of possessors. The history goes like this…
The most important metropolitan of Delhi was primarily recognized as Hastinapur, formed towards south where Qutab Minar was built up. It was established around 1000 BC to [...]