Diamonds are really forever

The “diamond" word comes from the Greek word, "adamas" which means unconquerable. The fact that diamonds are made up of pure carbon, and diamonds are the hardest natural substance known to man. Diamonds have long been a sign of wealth and fortune. Queens and Kings have worn these forms of concentrated carbon and even more countless millions people over time have yearn after them. These gems can be in form of transparent, truculent white, yellow, green, blue, or brown. We must understand the real value of these stones, and ultimately their role in war, it helps to first understand their origins and where they come form.

Diamonds are the most often used form capital by the rebels in Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of Congo use to purchase weapons (also known as the blood diamonds or conflict diamonds). The earliest diamond gems were found in India and Borneo, were they were found in riverbeds. In the early eighteenth century, deposits similar to those in India were found in Brazil. The story of diamonds in Africa began between December 1866 and February 1867, when a 15-year-old found a transparent stone on his father's farm, on the south bank of the Orange River. Within the next fifteen years, African diamond mines produced more diamonds than the India, the previous leading producer, had in the last 2,000 years. This increase in production occurred at the same time as the diamond mines in Brazil experiences a sharp decline in their production. The depletion of mines in Brazil assured that supply would remain stable and diamond prices would not fall as they previously had when Brazil over produced in the 1730s.