Within the more than 2,000 years of its exploitation, the mine delivered just 130 tons of diamonds. Since diamond-containing rock features only an average of 1/20,000,000 in diamonds, some 3 billion tons of rock, sand and boulders had to be processed in the Kimberley Mine – 1.8 tons for a single ct. Diamond is made of pure carbon (c), same as soot. This means that burned toast chemically equa…
Diamonds are unquestionably the hardest naturally occurring substance known to man and their unique chemical and atomic structure enables them to last forever. Their extreme hardness gives them a characteristic, perpetual lustre appropriately termed 'adamantine'. Formed under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure as a result of the constant movement and activity of material deep within…