Diamonds are popular gemstones surrounded by popular misconceptions. We'll tell you how they became so prized and debunk some of those diamond myths, too.
All you actually need to make a diamond is extremely high pressure and carbon, which are both in relative abundance below the Earth’s surface.
So compared to other gemstones that require specific multi-elememt minerals to form, on top of any other conditions, diamonds being the most common makes complete sense.
Which makes DeBeer’s whole campaign of artificial scarcity only that much worse.
All you actually need to make a diamond is extremely high pressure and carbon, which are both in relative abundance below the Earth’s surface.
So compared to other gemstones that require specific multi-elememt minerals to form, on top of any other conditions, diamonds being the most common makes complete sense.
Which makes DeBeer’s whole campaign of artificial scarcity only that much worse.
Edit: Not Dabares haha
De Beers?
Yup. Correction made
Da Bears?