How Rare are Diamonds Exactly?
When you walk into your local malls and see all the diamonds in all of the various settings that are for sale in a jewelry store, have ever cross in your mind how rare are diamonds exactly? Most people don’t even stop to consider about it.Many people is difficult to realize that diamonds are indeed very rare. Most people just realize that diamonds are expensive since there are a lot of works to be done before a diamond is ready to sell to the market. Mining, polishing, branding and distributing are just some of the chain process.
Before diamond came to be sitting in that jeweler’s case, the process is truly a long way. But it is not the process that made jewelry price is expensive. It is the scarcity. For every one million diamonds that are mined, only one will be found that is a quality one caret diamond. In order to find a two caret diamond, about five million diamonds must be mined. More than two hundred tons of ore must be mined to find one small diamond, and even then, more than 80% of the diamonds that are mined are only good for industrial use, such as diamond drill bits.
So, the next time you visit your local jewelry store or shopping online for diamonds, pay more appreciation to the one and only, DIAMONDS.
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