Diamonds Couldn't Be That Rare, Could They?
Looking at a jeweler's display window with all those sparkly diamonds in all different types of settings you could be forgiven for thinking that diamonds are pretty common. But once you realize how that diamond got to the jeweler, you may find it quite unbelievable that even one of those diamonds was found. There is a huge amount of work that is done before a diamond is ready for sale to the general public. Imagine a pile of one million diamonds. In that pile is one lonely diamond that is decent enough to be worked into a nice shape by the diamond cutter and then set into a ring by a jeweler and finally sold to a young man looking to propose to his girlfriend. However this young man wants a two carat diamond. For this we must look in another pile. This pile is much bigger than our first pile of one million diamonds. As a matter of fact it is more than twice as big. More than three times as big. Even more than four times as big. Yes, in order to find a usable 2 c...