I am a recent graduate of Geology and admittedly I was surprised at how interesting I found diamonds to be. I'll be honest with you, and you may very well know this already; diamonds aren't 'rare' to mean there aren't many - Yes, their surficial occurance is discrete and limited but where they have survived the treacherous journey to the (near)surface, they are aplenty!
The 4 C's, as they're known in industry: Colour, Cut, Clarity and Carat, are not what sparked my interest, but rather the utterly impossible conditions necessary for the formation of this gem. And so, for my project, I thought to celebrate the diamond not for its glitz and worth, but as a natural marvel, where each individual gem has an average age of between 1.5 and 3 billion years old! Illustrated above are 4 ways diamond can occur naturally, and below are 2 ways diamond can be synthetically created in a lab.
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Coded by Romana Stephenson