Diamonds are not cheap or easy says JBlanton of jewelryandetc.com, approximately 250 tons of earth is excavated to find a single 1 carat diamond. Companies spend millions of dollars on state of the art equipment to find diamonds. Then transport the equipment, manpower, and living quarters to far away and remote areas, mostly in Africa, Russia, Australia, and Canada. Diamond searchers spend millions of dollars to sometimes find little or nothing at all.

Wars have been fought over diamonds and diamond mines. As diamonds are the most sought after substance on the face of the Earth with the least amount of investment return. Diamonds are not just rare, diamonds are extremely rare, difficult to find, and very expensive to mine.

Approximately only 20 percent of all diamonds mined are good enough to be considered for gems or gem quality diamonds. The other 80 percent are considered industrial quality and used in making tools. Industrial quality diamonds are used to make diamond cutting blades for industrial saws, drill bits, sharpening tools and etc.

Now, of that 20 % of diamonds mined that are rated good enough to be gem quality only one diamond in a million will be a 1 carat diamond, and only one diamond in 5 million will be a 2 carat diamond, and the chances of a 3 carat diamond or much larger, one in millions and millions, possibly billions! The chances of that 1 or 2 carat diamond being near flawless, good color, high rated quality really takes the number up to 1 in many millions or billions.

So, next time you are thinking about how expensive that 1 or 2 carat diamond is, just think of what it took to find it, mine it, and cut it, and everything else involved it getting that diamond to the store. And the millions and millions of diamonds it takes to find a 1 or 2 carat diamond that has nice color, cut, and clarity! And the ease of just shopping the stores and making a simple purchase of natures beauty, the Diamond.

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