All our diamonds are guaranteed to be correctly represented. By 79A. D. Pliny asserted that rings were symbolic of eternal love. In 1839, Prince Albert wooed Queen Victoria with a diamond ring after their first meeting. The word Diamond comes from the Greek word, 'adamas', meaning indomitability and strength.
Diamonds are the only gems used to cut other gems and other diamonds.
It takes 250 tons of ore mined and sorted in order to produce a one-carat gemstone quality diamond. It is also interesting that most diamonds are less than one carat in size. Only one precious diamond in a thousand weighs more than one carat. Diamonds evolved most usually in semi-molten igneous rock. Kimberlite laden volcanoes have not erupted for over 60 million years.