Blood Diamonds

[Marburg]

Also,
Wait a second, to become red for usual white diamonds... it definately requires science. But it should be quite a difficult process to make diamonds red, after all, they are pretty solid, so it wouldn't be too reasonable to make them red whatever they represent.

You have the internet, & you have the ability to answer just about any question you could ask yourself. If you did that, you'd know that the bolded part of your statement is wrong. Anyhoo, as Dab has said, diamonds come in multiple colors...& the most common colors on the planet are yellow & brown. Red & green are the most rare, but they do exist in nature. The stereotypical colorless 'white' diamond that everyone thinks of, is because that is what the retail market mostly sells.

De Beers is the company that not only controls the vast majority of both supply & demand of the stones, but also, public perception about them. Diamonds are not the rarest stones on the planet but thanks to De Beers & decades of propaganda & their control supply & demand, they were able to artificially inflate their value, conditioning people to think they are worth the over bloated price.

Technically speaking, a blood diamond is considered any diamond that is not registered & certified by that company first.

::Edit- Ninja'd...that's what I get for trying to post & work for a living at the same time *shrug*::

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