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Chocolate diamonds are actually brown diamonds and compared to the well- known white
diamond they aren’t much worth. Diamonds are produced in mines. The best known diamond
mines are in Australia, South Africa and Russia. The largest diamond mine was discovered in
1976 in the desert of Australia near a little creek named Lake Argyle. Diamonds are created
under very extreme conditions of pressure and high temperature. It is a general misunderstanding
that there exist only white colourless diamonds. Actually, diamonds exist in many different
colours.
Of all the diamond mines in the world, almost 80% of all diamonds produced are brownish in
colour. Because they were found in such large quantities compared to the other coloured
diamonds, they were considered as low-valued diamonds, only good for the industrial sector. But,
a famous man called Le Vian came with a marketing campaign to increase the popularity of the
chocolate diamond. Instead of calling it a brown diamond, he gave it popular names like caramel,
chocolate, cinnamon and cognac. Since his marketing campaign, chocolate diamonds are
becoming very popular.
The value of a diamond is based on its shape, brightness and colour. Because white diamonds
are rare, their value is based on the fact that there are not many white diamonds around. But if
you look at the shape and brightness, then the brightest diamond in this world known to men is a
brown diamond. Before the development of the Argyle Diamond Mine in Australia in 1986, most
brown diamonds were considered, worthless for jewellery; they were not even assessed on the
diamond colour scale, and were predominantly used for industrial purposes.
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