Does anyone have any facts about diamonds?
January 20th, 2008
!Triple_H_Fan! asked:
I have to do a report on diamonds and i am just about done all i need is a couple of fast facts. Can anyone help me?
I have to do a report on diamonds and i am just about done all i need is a couple of fast facts. Can anyone help me?
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11 Comments
1. finallyhere26 | January 22nd, 2008 at 2:04 am
They are made of carbon and are the hardest natural occuring mineral / gem.
2. Minnesotagirl | January 24th, 2008 at 6:40 am
They come from really deep in the earth (up to 200 km). Here is a website with some other facts–
3. bryanlovesalisha | January 26th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
There you go!! Hope this helps.
4. carebearsrock_12 | January 28th, 2008 at 10:28 am
diamonds are better then pearls?
5. SnowFaerie | January 29th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Diamonds consist of pure carbon that crystallized under very high pressure (up to 70,000 kg/cm²) and temperature (up to 2000 C). Such an environment exists only at depths of 150 to 200 kilometers. Diamonds make their long journey to the surface of the earth by intrusions of the volcanic stone in which they are found, kimberlite or lamproite. Kimberlite or blue ground is called after the South African city Kimberley.
Many volcanos have eroded away in the course of the centuries thus causing the diamonds to be released from the kimberlite. They are then washed away and carried to river beds and even further, to the places where they are ultimately found. Other volcanos still have kimberlite pipes, which are mined.
Diamond is the hardest mineral known to man (its hardness coefficient is 10 on the Mohs scale). Thanks to this hardness, the diamond could make its journey out of the crust of the earth. It is estimated that the kimberlite found in Africa and South America was created between 70 and 150 million years ago at the time of the great rending of the earth’s crust that drove the continents apart
Diamonds are rare. 250 tons of rock, sand, and gravel must be physically moved to yield 1 carat of diamonds (= 1/5 of a gram).
The annual world production amounts to approximately 100 million carats of which only 50% are of gem quality.
6. wldflwr_00 | February 2nd, 2008 at 1:12 am
Ladies, if your diamond is worth more than $1000, make sure you take out a rider with your home owner’s insurance or they will not replace it if lost.
7. kurtfranceus | February 5th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
remember the three C’s…Cut, color, Clarity
8. mahatma | February 7th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Just a little, Diamonds are some sort of compressed kind of charcoal, i mean carbon, during enormous periods of time they compressed more and more till they formed diamonds. Diamonds from the mines get cut, and rated in carat. A one carat diamond’s the mostexpensive/biggest/most cut one and the smallest one.. ‘don’t know. Diamonds are often from conflictzones in (west) africa, goldcoast and sierra leone and several more places, diamonds are not from europe. But i really don’t know i just saw the word and had to react. Diamonds are a girls best friend.
9. eryk728 | February 9th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
diamonds are forever!
10. pooh_bloody_fem | February 12th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
in diamond mining, there are 3 steps. i dont remember them all but i’m sure you can get a little sumthin from that. germany has a large diamond economy. In the diamond buis. over there, there are no contracts in the sale. there is a nod of the head and a word, wich i dont remember. that i always seals the deals just like a contract over here. whene exiting the mining “field”(couldn’t think of the word), every minder is x-rayed for stolen diamonds
i know that prob. didn’t help but it will point u in sum new directions i hope…
11. v__dawg | February 15th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
They are the best way to get a date with a stripper.