Even if you haven't seen diamond before, you have certainly heard of it. That shiny thing that looks like the heavens on your fingers, or dangling from your neck. Think how it would feel to own one, have it belong to you forever. Well, that is how some people feel about it that causes them to cling to it so much and so desperately.

Jewels are beautiful, but they are never the real thing unless they are made of diamonds. Earth's most unique substance will look good on any finger, and make it's wearer an instant celebrity. That's why we all want it.

With a substance as beautiful as the diamond, certainly there have been countless attempts to reproduce it. All have failed, the closest being graphite, a substance that should not even be allowed in the same room as diamond. Evidence shows that sometimes diamonds form as deep as 670 km into the Earth. You can't reproduce that. You can only hope to pay for it.

I love the song 'Diamonds are forever,' it tells you just how a girl feels about diamonds. Somewhere in there she says the diamond doesn't hurt you the way a man can because you know it isn't ever going to change. Well, now you know why your girl will love you more if you got her a diamond jewelry. You are telling her your love is that true.

The best things in life are free, some say. And in a sense they are, until one man gets to it and puts a price upon it. Diamonds are free for whoever finds them first, and then they cost a fortune, prize for the highest bidder.

Would you believe this? Some diamonds are actually thought to have an extraterrestrial origin. They are the black variety of the priceless stones, known as carbonados. I suppose they are called diamond because they have certain similar characteristics, but I doubt they are so much used as gems.

There is something about looking into a diamond that both excites and appeases you. It is not just its beauty and radiance, it is a property known as its fire. Diamond refracts light, diffusing it over a wide range. It is called fire, and once it catches your soul, you won't stop until you owned the piece.

The stones that made the mountains were not always solid. At one time, they were molten, known as magma, made so by the extreme pressures and heat in the earth's heart; the same pressures and heat that formed diamonds over eons of processing. So when the magma came up, so did the diamonds with it. Today, we mine them and wear them, and we bask in the glory of the diamond jewelry.

Black diamonds are not thought to come from the earth's bowels because their chemistry is seen as different. By infrared analysis, carbonado samples indicate that the minerals in them may have been formed between 2 and 4 billion years ago in a supernova explosion. These figures make your head spin, don't they? That should increase the value of diamond jewelries, don't you agree?

Diamond has various values, based on the way it is formed, and the qualities it so possesses. Some that are thought to form directly from graphite contained meteorites upon impact with the earth are opaque and range from very small to somewhere about a centimeter in diameter. However the best types are the ones that come from the bowels of the earth itself.