According to Johnson “the name "diamond" comes from the Greek word, "adamas" meaning unconquerable. Fittingly diamonds are made of pure carbon, and diamonds are the hardest natural substance known to man” (n.p). Diamonds are a symbol of love and coming in different colors and shape sizes as these gems can be transparent, truculent white, yellow, green, blue, or brown. The diamond is considered by many to be the “king of gems,” and in antiquity was often paired with the pearl as its queen. According to the famous mineralogist George Kunz, “The Diamond is to the Pearl as the sun is to the moon…the Diamond, like a knight of old - brilliant and resistant, is the emblem of fearlessness and invincibility; the Pearl, like a lady of old - pure and
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Kimberly was mother of diamonds and was home to the region’s biggest diamonds find. Diamonds come from under the earth around 100 miles’ deep where diamonds are created in part of the upper mantle and come through the volcano to the earth’s surface pipe under exactly the right conditions. They fairly quick ascend with exactly steady condition of pressure and temperature. The volcano’s name was “Kimberly pipe” because the people who were there quoted the city’s name, where the volcano was found, and Kimberly pipe was delivering a stream of diamonds to the earth’s surface. Later on, Kimberly established a mining town in 1873, and prospectors arrived by the thousands in order to work. Kimberly became known as the first discovering the actual diamond producing pipe. A lot of Kimberly pipes found around the area included the largest pipes found on land by two unsuspecting farmers. The two farmers were brothers, and their names were “De Beers”. A syndicate discovered the largest pipes and brought the De beers brothers out and paid some money for the brothers around sixty-three hundred pounds, which was a large amount in that time for the farmers and a wonderful
Kimberly was mother of diamonds and was home to the region’s biggest diamonds find. Diamonds come from under the earth around 100 miles’ deep where diamonds are created in part of the upper mantle and come through the volcano to the earth’s surface pipe under exactly the right conditions. They fairly quick ascend with exactly steady condition of pressure and temperature. The volcano’s name was “Kimberly pipe” because the people who were there quoted the city’s name, where the volcano was found, and Kimberly pipe was delivering a stream of diamonds to the earth’s surface. Later on, Kimberly established a mining town in 1873, and prospectors arrived by the thousands in order to work. Kimberly became known as the first discovering the actual diamond producing pipe. A lot of Kimberly pipes found around the area included the largest pipes found on land by two unsuspecting farmers. The two farmers were brothers, and their names were “De Beers”. A syndicate discovered the largest pipes and brought the De beers brothers out and paid some money for the brothers around sixty-three hundred pounds, which was a large amount in that time for the farmers and a wonderful