This book contains stories on early Australian diamond discoveries, and also includes details on how to identify the diamonds you find. The information included has come from early original newspaper sources. Through the passage of time, many Australian diamond locations have been forgotten. The aim of this book is to ensure that the modern day gem fossicker is more aware of the history of diamond discoveries in Australia, so they can utilise this knowledge to improve their success of finding diamonds.

The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world’s largest diamond company, sent gem-hunters to the area but they came away empty-handed. It was a vast region to survey, and they’d overlooked something vital. A few years later, a team of Australian geologists with a tiny budget searched for even tinier mineral clues. Those clues led them to the earth’s largest diamond deposit and the world’s richest source of rare pink diamonds. Based on in-depth research and interviews — including with Alan King Jones, Bill Leslie and ‘the father of Australian diamonds’, Ewen Tyler — Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds details the almost overwhelming challenges with realising a diamond mining venture in Australia, shows how these obstacles were overcome, and explores the mine’s impact and legacy.

This book takes a look at diamonds, in particular the common forms of diamond, rocks in which diamonds are found in nature, diamond types, electrical behaviour, thermal conductivity, chemical composition, crystallography, hardness, specific gravity, determining synthetic diamonds to natural, colour, clarity methods, diamond enhancements, & more... This is volume 14 of the Australian Gemstones series. Other books in this series include Early Australian Gemstone Discoveries, Early Australian Diamond Discoveries, The Physical and Optical Properties of Gemstones, Identification of Quartz and Its Varieties, Identification of Feldspar and Its Varieties, Identification of Amber, Identification of Coral, Identification of Pearls, Identification of Opals, the Identification of Ornamental Gem Materials, the Identification of Emeralds, the Identification of Garnets and the Identification of Synthetic Gemstones. These are available in paperback or ebook versions. These books are specifically designed for the beginner wanting to learn more about gemstones or gem fossicking, they also make a wonderful refresher course for the more experienced. All of these books are available for purchase through www.amazon.com. I hope you enjoy reading and learning more about the wonderful world of diamonds.

A sweeping history of our enduring passion for diamonds—and the exploitative industry that fuels it. Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical exposé of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, the monopolization of uncut diamonds, and how little this has changed over time. It describes the use of forced labor and political oppression by Indian sultans, Portuguese colonizers in Brazil, and Western industrialists in many parts of Africa—as well as the hoarding of diamonds to maintain high prices, from the English East India Company to De Beers. While recent discoveries of diamond deposits in Siberia, Canada, and Australia have brought an end to monopolization, the book shows that advances in the production of synthetic diamonds have not yet been able to eradicate the exploitation caused by the world’s unquenchable thirst for sparkle.

The diamond is the hardest natural substance known. It is found in a type of igneous rock known as kimberlite. The diamond itself is essentially a chain of carbon atoms that have crystallized. The stone's unique hardness is a result of the densely concentrated nature of the carbon chains. Like other igneous rocks, kimberlite was formed over the course of thousands of years by volcanic action that occurred during the formation of the earth's crust. It is thought that diamonds were first discovered in India about 6,000 years ago in the riverbeds of the region. India was the only known source of the rocks for over a thousand years, until they were unearthed in Borneo around A.D. 600. During the Middle Ages, the diamond was overshadowed by some of the more colorful gems like the ruby and emerald. In the 18th century, diamond deposits were discovered in Brazil in small quantities, and later in Australia, Russia, and the United States. Block caving is the most commonly used method in excavating diamonds from kimberlite deposits. This method offers the highest yield and thus is the most cost effective. In the crushing operation, which occurs in the below-ground mining facilities, large chunks of kimberlite are broken up into more easily transportable segments. Diamonds will continue to be used in industry and hightechnology enterprises, but synthetically produced facsimiles--first manufactured in 1953--may accomplish some of the tasks originally the exclusive province of the real stone. These ""manufactured"" gems have the same properties of hardness and durability, and while they will never be as popular as the real diamond for adomment purposes, they are well suited for industrial applications.This book provides comprehensive overview on origin, exploration, and history of diamond.

These pages contain books 14 to 15 of the Australian Gemstones Series. This series is specifically designed for the beginner wanting to learn more about gemstones or gem fossicking, they also make a wonderful refresher course for the more experienced. Included in this publication are the following titles Identification of Diamonds Book 14 Identification of Corundum Book 15 Other books in this series include Early Australian Gemstone Discoveries, Early Australian Diamond Discoveries, The Physical and Optical Properties of Gemstones, Identification of Quartz and Its Varieties, Identification of Feldspar and Its Varieties, Identification of Amber, Identification of Coral, Identification of Pearls, Identification of Opals, Identification of Ornamental Gem Materials, Identification of Emeralds. Identification of Garnets, Identification of Synthetic Gemstones These are available in paperback or ebook versions. All of these books are available for purchase through www.amazon.com. If you are wanting to learn more about gemstones then this series is specifically designed for you...