Puerto Rico 2014 Fashion Diamond Engagement Ring.
By Farzana Aamir
officially found.
The surface deposits were depleted quickly, but the real treasure was found in a volcanic plug, a single massive volcanic rock that had propelled itself near the surface in an eruption hundreds of millions of years earlier. It contained the largest reserves of diamonds ever discovered. Between 1871 and 1914 over two tons of diamonds were extracted from it. So many that for the first time in history the price was low enough to make diamonds affordable to more than just kings and queens. The mines themselves, after numerous mergers, came under the control of an emerging giant, a conglomerate named De Beers Consolidated Mines. To this day it retains a monopoly over the world’s diamond market, gaining control of new
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