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The Greek word "Adamas" meaning unconquerable and indestructible is the root word for diamond. Diamonds have been sought worldwide, disputed, adored and used to cast love spells. The ancient Greeks believed that diamonds were splinters of stars fallen to earth. It also said some of them were tears of the gods. He also believes that the fire in the diamond reflected the constant flame of love.

The first river-bed (alluvial) diamonds were discovered in India, probably in 800 BC The volcanic origin of these diamonds was never discovered, but the alluvial deposits were rich enough as to supply most of the world's diamonds.

For centuries, rough diamonds were kept as talismans, and often not worn at all, although natural octahedral (eight-sided stones) were sometimes set in rings. A crown of Queen of Hungary in rough diamonds, dating from about l074, is perhaps the oldest example of diamond jewelry. The earliest record of diamond polishing (with diamond dust) is from India, and probably dates from the fourteenth century. We also the royalty of France and England wore diamonds by the end of 1300.

In 1477, Archduke Maximilian of Austria gave a diamond ring on Mary of Burgundy, therefore, from the tradition of diamond engagement rings. The reason a woman takes on the third finger of the left hand dates back to the Egyptian belief that vena amoris (vein of love) ran directly from the heart to the top of that finger.

The first producing diamond mine in the region of Golconda of India. Jean Baptiste Tavernier, a Frenchman, is credited with the discovery of the gemstone first in the region in 1627. Mining was well established in the mid - seventeenth century and a single mine employed 60,000 people to dig and carry alluvial gravels containing diamonds.

In 1867, a 21-carat stone discovered on the banks of the Orange River, South Africa, started a diamond rush. Between 1870 and 1891, no fewer than six kimberlite pipes were discovered in Kimberley. The greatest pipeline in South Africa was discovered at Cullinan near Pretoria in 1902. Jewel of the world's largest diamonds, a stone at 3,106 carats, was found there in 1905.

In 1939, De Beers Diamonds criteria for the determination of gem quality by a combination of four different elements. These are call 4C. Cut, color, clarity and carat (see section on 4CA's)

In the 1950s, Yakutia, a region of the Soviet Union, began to develop the newly discovered diamond resources. This Siberian diamond field would make their nation one of the largest producers of diamonds of all times.

In the 1960s, diamond deposits were discovered in Botswana. Second three diamond mines - Orapa, Letlhakane and Jwaneng - Botswana to the world largest producer of diamonds and the largest producer of gem diamonds by both value and number.

In 1991, a diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes was drilled at Lac de Gras, NWT, Canada to begin the biggest land rush in to bet Canadian mining history. The output of the BHP / Pipe Diameter began in 1998. Work to date indicates that the concentrations of several gem diamond pipes and valuations as rich as the diamond mines in Africa.

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