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Fascinating Story of Your Diamond

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There are beautiful mysteries hidden in nature which are fascinating to human beings. Diamond is one such alluring mineral on Earth that has been fascinating for people since centuries. The formation of diamond is also an extraordinary process that turns this natural element into the world’s most desirable jewel. Your diamond is born under the earth’s surface, with extreme heat and pressure causing the fragments of carbon to turn into crystals of diamond. These crystals are brought to the earth’s surface during volcanic eruption in the form of magma. Later, the material is washed away by rain, and dispersed by other weathering agents leaving behind the diamond crystals and some being washed away. Men first found this diamond in the beginning of the 1400s in India when it was sold to Venice and European countries from India. However in the 1700s when the India’s diamond supplies declined, Brazil became the world’s major source of diamond. Later, diamond was discovered in the mines of A...

10 Amazing Facts About Diamonds

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Since centuries, diamonds have been the most precious gemstone that every human being desires. Though a diamond is said to be a girl’s best friend but men too are fond of diamond. While women wear it as a pride, a man definitely chooses a diamond ring to express his love. The reason behind the fascination for diamond is perhaps due to the process that it undergoes from being ordinary carbon to an extraordinary diamond. There are a number of amazing facts that you must know about diamonds before you call yourself a true diamond lover. The word diamond is derived from the Greek word “adamas” which means one which cannot be destroyed. Diamond is said to be the hardest natural substance as nothing can scratch a diamond except another diamond. Cupid, the god of love in Roman mythology is represented as a boy with an arrow in his hand and is believed to have diamonds in the tip of the arrow, perhaps the true association of love with diamonds. Diamonds were first mined in India,...