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Question 1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions/complete the statements that follow:
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.
However, marketing strategies changed in the 1980s and brown diamonds have become popular gems. The
change was mostly due to the supply: the Argyle mine, with its 35 million carats (7,000 kg) of diamonds per
year, makes about one third of global production of natural diamonds; 80% of Argyle diamonds are brown.
The percentage of brown diamonds is lower in other mines, but it is almost always a significant part of the
total production. Consequently, scientific research on causes of brown colour in diamond and ways to alter it
has intensified.
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