What are Black Diamonds?

Black Diamonds have an incredibly rich history. Named carbonados by the Brazilians who first discovered them in 1840, Black Diamonds are found almost exclusively in Brazil and the Central African Republic. Carbonado formed 2.6 to 3.8 billion years ago and is exceedingly rare. Carbonado - is a natural polycrystalline diamond and only about three metric tons have been mined, usually from stream beds. Black Diamonds are dynamic and packed with drama, records of earth's shifting and folding land masses sculpted and transported them by water and ice. They attest to a time when Africa and South America were a single land mass that was probably struck by a class of "pre-solar" meteorites that fell to earth from outer space through the oxygen-poor atmosphere of the pre-Cambrian period. ...

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