Some of the most expensive jewelries in the world are made from diamond. It is a bright shiny substance that everyone wants to have and keep. And so they go to great lengths of trouble just to acquire it, not to mention how much they pay. You won't believe how much people are willing to pay for the right piece of diamond. Incredible, yes, but it's very valuable.

You know, ladies can't resist the lure of diamond. With the beauty of the thing it is a wonder there is even a single woman alive who doesn't have one. You know how ladies like beautiful things. Most would sooner have diamond jewelry than anything else.

You would have to travel up to 150 km (93 mi) into the bowels of the earth to experience the creation of a diamond. Hard as man has tried, they have not been able to duplicate that. And so diamond remains the hardest material on earth, and the most priceless of jewels.

Since the time it was discovered, the beauty of diamonds has been such that only the best of men could own it. They were originally only owned by lords or kings, nobles or men of wealth. It is like the purity of the piece calls for the purest of men, and indeed they respond. They did so then, as well they do now.

Diamonds dwell in the earth, where they have taken forever to be formed, along with a lot of conditions that man can never reproduce. That is why the sparkling radiance of them is an enticement that is great enough to hold on to you so much that you desire to own the jewel.

Cratons extend into the mantle beneath the earth. This is where the stones are found ? those diamonds ? after forever of being in the earth, changing from dead dung to priceless jewel. Now we all want them, that which we cast away when we lived as beasts in caves.

Loose eroded materials that have been left behind by flowing water sometimes contain fragments of diamond. Apparently, they have been carried thus far from the points at which they entered the earth's surface from the bowels by volcanism. Usually, that is one of the ways the stone is made available to us.

Scientists study the diamond and have determined that some pieces are as old as 3 billion years! Wow! The power you feel when you hold such a gem in your hands; the elevation when you wear it on your person. Worth any amount you are asked to pay for it.