Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Useful Hints On Diamond Jewelry

By Don Pedro

If you have ever seen a diamond before, will have a good idea why it is so expensive as a jewel. If you have touched one before, you never again want to let it go. If you have the money to afford a diamond ring, I know you'll want one on your finger.

Many insist that a diamond is the best forms of jewelry one can think of. It is hard, it shines, and it does not destroy easily. Why else do you think it sells so well as a precious stone? Hardly any array of jewelry is complete without them. Any wonder why your wife keeps insisting on you buying her that lovely diamond jewelry?

There is no way you are using a diamond in a jewel in its rough form; you'd look more mad than majestic. You need to run the stone through a couple of cutting processes that will bring out the sparkle in it. By the time you are done, you want a precious stone that will do you proud and fatten your bank account.

It is not easy, looking at any diamond, to imagine them as being typically billions of years old. But that exactly is what they are. They have been buried in the earth forever, but now they are free, more beautiful than you could imagine. Picture one against the warmth of your flesh; now don't you just feel like royalty?

Diamonds are mined from areas where there hasn't been any activity for billions of years. Only there can you hope to find it after the length of time it has taken to form. That is partly why the jewel made from it is the only one that costs as much as it does all over the world.

When you see a person wear a diamond, the person is always so beautiful. Yet, it is not the person that is so; it is the diamond that they wear. That is the thing about diamonds; you might not be so beautiful yourself, but the diamond beautifies you. How awesome!

Volcanism brings substances from the bowels of the earth to the surface. It is how diamonds travel from where they are made, close to the earth's core for ages, up to where we can mine them, and convert them into the jewels that we cherish so much.

Sometimes when meteorites strike the earth, they generate so much heat and pressure that some diamonds can be formed. Diamonds so formed are often small and not transparent. They are believed to have materialized upon impact out of graphite that is contained in the meteorite. Not very good samples for a jeweler.

Diamonds can be found in certain sedimentary rocks aside from the regular volcanic matter in which they are normally found. However, the best places to hunt for the diamond are in the roughs of a craton. That is where they are most deposited. - 16747

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