June 7th
Who wears chocolate diamonds? How about: Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Bhumibol Adulyadej Mahitalathibet Ramathibodi Chakkrinaruebodin Sayamminthrathirat Borommanatbophit. That is the full title to the King of Thailand (easy for you to say). King Bhumibol (for short) was presented the world’s largest faceted diamond in 1997. The Golden Jubilee, as the stone is called, weighs [...]
June 5th
What do you usually find in a creek bed—some minnows, tadpoles, or crawfish? What would you expect to find in a desert stream? What if among the stones and eddies you happened upon a raw diamond?
Diamonds were suspected to be present in the deserts of Western Australia since the late 19th century. But it wasn’t [...]
June 5th
One does not need to go to a museum to see something nearly as old as the planet itself. You are likely wearing it on your finger. Blasted through molten rock some 93 miles below the surface of an earth in the pangs of creation, behold the diamond.
The brightest gem on earth is the [...]
