Material

Diamond is a precious stone. The name diamond comes from the Greek word, adamas, which means invincible. Diamonds is mostly used in the jewelry business where it has a reputation of being the most precious of all precious stones. Diamonds is also used to cut other diamonds and for cutting and drilling in the industry.
The diamond consists of coal that is developed during high pressure and high temperature in the depth of 150-200 km. The diamonds stays there for hundreds of millions of years before they are transported to the surface of the earth by the volcanoes.

The diamond is the strongest material ever found in nature. The hardness is measured in Mohs scale, where the mineral talc has the hardness 1 and diamond has the hardness 10. All other materials are places on this scale to its ability to scratch other materials surface, for ex a material with hardness 7 can scratch all material with the hardness 1 to 6.
The diamond is, thanks to its crystal structure, fragile in some directions and harder in some. It is therefore possible to split a diamond but not to scratch it (with anything else than another diamond).
The diamond has a very high refraction index which is used when the stone is cut and makes the light reflect in white and in the colours of the rainbow like a prism.

History

The first diamond was probably found in India for over 4000 years ago. But it was not until Louis de Berqueur 1456 discovered how to cut a diamond the interest was awakened for this stone. Until the 18 century it was almost only found in India. In 1726 some findings was also made in Brazil. The modern diamond cutting industry was born when the findings of diamonds in Hopetown south of Kimberly in South Africa was made 1867. Nowadays the diamonds comes from Africa, Australia, Canada and Russia. The world’s biggest diamond, the Cullinan diamond, 530,20 ct was found in South Africa. Two other well known diamonds is the Hope diamond, 45,52 ct and the Koh-i-noor diamond, 108,93 ct.

Cleaning

The diamond has a characteristic to attract grease which means that you should clean your diamonds often not to lose the brilliance. Use warm water with some washing-up detergent in a cup and brush gently with a tooth brush.
 
Conflict free diamonds

We guarantee that we only use conflict free diamonds due to The Kimberly Certification Scheme (KPCS).