Diamonds, a billion-year-old gift from mother nature to mankind. What makes the diamond so special is the story it held. A diamond you buy today took billion years to sit on your finger or jewel. With extreme pressure, and extreme heat in the earth's core formation of a diamond takes place.
Volcanic eruption bring's the raw diamond to the earth's surface. Later, mining companies do the hardest job to extract it from upper crust of land. It's the most challenging process with thousands of workers are employed in countries like, Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, etc.
A natural diamond that you buy helps the whole eco-system of these developing countries. It's big then you could ever imagine, the diamond mining company is taking care of the environment and social life.
Diamonds in South Africa
There are many great stories of the South African people benefited due to employment opportunity, beneficiation program, skill development programs, free schooling, etc, which is indirectly provided by natural diamond's lovers and buyers worldwide.
Once these diamonds are recovered, they are bought the diamond manufacturers worldwide. Out of every 10 diamonds, 7 are manufacture in India. Diamond is cut in a manner that it holds it maximum beauty and hence brings the maximum profits to the cutter.
Diamonds are alter graded on the bases of 4cs i.e Cut, Color, Clarity & Carat. But there are many other factors too like diamond fluorescence, diamond shapes, heart, and arrow, etc.
Diamonds are rare, but fancy color diamond are rarest of all. Colors like pink, blue and red are something even a diamond dealer desire to hold, because of its beauty, rarity and value appreciation.
Major of gem-quality diamond go the to high-end jewelry to make one of a kind masterpiece.
With advance development, diamond is created in factories, they are popularly known as laboratory-grown diamonds These diamonds are cheap and are not rare as can be manufactured in mass as per demand. Also, a lab-created diamond does not hold the value and has to story like a natural one.