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 Diamonds
first formed around 2 to 4 billion years ago, just 300km
beneath the Earth's surface. At this depth,
scientists determined the rocks baked at a
blistering-hot temperature of approximately 1300 degrees
Celsius, until they were blown out of the ground by
volcanoes.
Indeed, diamonds are the
oldest items that anyone may own. And the
uniqueness of these gems have graced numerous cultures
and periods of time in which people desired to showcase
their wealth, prosperity, status, and everlasting love
towards another. Gems have been of particular
appeal to Greek, Indian, English, French, German,
Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, Polish, Japanese, American,
African, Korean, and Chinese populations. More
recently though, I have noticed a great number of
Nigerians with big, black bags, strolling the streets of
Europe selling these gems. I therefore assume that
they too, have caught onto the diamond craze. They
seem to have some really low prices too (they also offer
low prices on music CDs and name brand purses).
The Europeans were the
first to incorporate diamonds into jewelry in the 13th
century. From that point on, craftsmen of all
sorts started refining this gem to achieve what is now
known as the 'fire' that can be seen in a diamond.
The greatest diamond-cutter experts existed primarily
throughout much of Venice, Italy, but are now found
worldwide. It is through this globalization of
craftmasnship that the industry has turned towards
squeezing profits by attempting to sell diamonds
containing unusually high levels of carbon and other
elements. These companies must be stopped from
creating and distributing inferior diamonds.
Please do not support them.
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