De Beers Diamond Mining Company

... INTRODUCTION Ancient Greeks called it "adamas" - unconquerable, Arabs - al-Mac, (the strongest). In India people gave their honor to it, like to the saints. "It's a ray of light, which stayed on earth and cooled down with the time, it combines of the color of rainbow in it, and yet stays clear as a drop" - one a writer said Almost for two thousand years, our world only knew about the Indian diamonds, as Kohinoor, from the Great Britain's crown. And yet already for more then hundred years, the word 'diamond' is associated with the south of Africa. There was found the biggest diamond in the world - "Kalian". From South Africa come most of the diamonds used in jewelry now a day. Even the diamonds from Brazil are linked with the Africans; there shape, color and other characteristics are very similar. South African diamonds were found after the

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