when it comes to sustainability, information and trends, executives on dw travel, you can have it. what about you? what your opinion feel free to write your thoughts and the comment? the face sparkle, big liter shimmer, and shine diamonds are rich, regal, a short, far way to make you feel like a queen, or at least the princess from rappers to robbers and romantics, diamond to inspire and to rouse our emotion. when i saw his diamond fears, i mean, what makes the mystique because this most mystical of gems? the i don't actually own the diamond myself. and i have always been fascinated by them both as

a feed of nature and for what they represent. the diamonds are ingrained in our collective psyche as the ultimate symbol of love, status, and power. as carriers of curses, fuels of conflict and metaphors of resilience, humans have always been drawn to diamonds. but why? we're literally we're wired to look for shiny and look for sparkling all living things that can see have been programmed to look for something shiny or look for something sparkly because it means water and water is months and dinings just sparkled best. and they have so many stories to tell diamonds are seductive, divisive and essential to our modern economies. but what does their journey look like? and are they really forever to find the head to the world's 5th largest producer of

diamonds, south africa, to one of his oldest and richest mines, the colon and diamond mine dates back to 19 no to today it's the flagship assets of the mining company. petra diamonds, and to see 1st hand where diamonds originates their allowing me into the mine. after countless safety and security checks, i'm sued up and ready to go hundreds of meters underground. my heart is pounding as we start our descent. it takes a full 7 minutes to reach the bottom of the mine shaft. by the time diamonds get to where we combine them, they've come a long way. formed mainly between one and over 3000000000 years ago. more than a 150 kilometers below the surface, their intense heat and pressure caused carbon athens to crystallized powerful eruptions later brought those crystals closer to earth surface. creating what's known as kimberly pipes, but not all types of the same. kind of them and mine is very special. i'm like

a normal candidate option, which is, is generally a cat, a cheat, the deeper you go, the more matter with gets the cutting and diamond mind consists of 3 different options in the same spot. so as the result, the pipe is a lot to the reason it's still producing after a 120 years in operation. we've ever lived under ground. and if i expected it to be sparkling with diamonds, my 1st impressions of the block case or wind, noise, dirt, and darkness. gargantuan machinery is on the go down here 247. it's hard to believe i'm actually 839 meters below the surface of the earth, down at the bottom of the color and diamond mine shaft, and surrounded by an entire network of sheer kimber like walls. and who would imagine that? a diamond with all of its brilliance can actually originate from something as prosaic as this of our time is limited. so my guides show me around the dark maze

of collection points, and there's not a sparkle inside. i'm still looking for a diamond in here. are you sure fit to get us but under the sun. ok in all the time you've been here, you've never seen infinity as items. you haven't seen one. wow. that's how we list of they are 30 carrots of diamonds per 100 tons of camber light. and a 5th of a grand per care that's only about 6 grams. and who said diamonds were rare? after extraction, the oars hoisted above ground for further crushing, washing and separation. the final step is the sourcing house where the days haul about 4000 carrots is divided by hand according to quality. is painstaking work and evident here that clear white diamonds are few and far between this mine has another surprising distinction. kind of is the premier sauce off type to blow down

. one of the more exceptionally stones, really competent recent times was as the 29 cataract type to a boo. it's sold for, for over $40000000.00 us dollars and, and is the highest honors academy we've received for the type of bombing price tag . indeed. but this line is most famous as the birthplace of the largest gym quality diamond ever found. it weighed in at $3106.00 carrots, which could fetch a dizzy in $5000000000.00 us dollars today. this is a picture from the day it was found an absolute sensation. so this is what the colon and diamond looked like in its natural raw state when it was 1st discovered back in 19 o 5. now this is of course, just a replica of it imagined finding a diamond is literally the size of your fist. and then on top of that, it happens to be able to find a stem quality. in the end, it was cut into 9 fantastic gems. and many other smaller stones and they've never

found another one, like the largest of the colors in diamonds, now have pride of place in the breezes crown jewels. one in the royal sector, and one in the imperial state chrome. indeed, it was royalty whose 1st force of diamonds is coveted. symbols of wealth and power . frances king, louie, the 14th was mad about them. and during his reign a mass, the most sumptuous collection in the west, his passion was fed by a zone. but she's definitely an intrepid gen merchant and traveller who brought many exceptional stones back to the french court. sparking craze among the european powers became a capital of high jewelry, while empresses, queens, even kings are rarely without their diamonds. to this day, the already in the 1st century, a deep kleinie, the elder rows of diamonds as the hardest and most precious of all stones. but they

were 1st discovered in india, where early descriptions date back to the 4th century b. c. prised for their brilliance and hardness. people thought they were created when lightning struck rock. and that they had magical properties. diamonds are distinctive as the only gemstone to consist of one single element, carbon, the same material as cold, or graphite. but a diamond strongly bonded crystal structure and makes it the hardest natural material on earth. the word itself comes from the greek dom us, which means indestructible indian royalty or diamonds in their uncut form in jewelry or as protective talismans in bottles. by the early 14th century diamonds were making their way to the major cities of europe. stocking the 1st cutting industries in venice and bruce. but it was in this port that diamonds really to hold,

becoming an integral parts of the city's dna. so i'm here in beautiful antwerp, which is the world capital for diamonds elizabeth places to learn about diamonds. here is it. the diva diamond museum. following this museum explores the colorful history of the world's most precious materials, gold, silver and diamonds, showcasing centuries of diamond craftsmanship and the dizzy and fascination it has inspired from the science of diamond. cutting 2 are cultures of adornment. visitors can marvel at gemstones galore to read her katherine, who guides me through the highlights of and trips nearly 600 year heritage as the world's diamond capitol. the result of a complex convergence of trade in cultures brought diamond experts and lasting wealth to add to work. when trade routes from india were compromised by conflict, portuguese explore a vast go to gama pioneer the 1st,

the route around africa's cape of good hope. giving antwerp a direct line to the world's only diamond source. he found a new route to india overseas and there was much safer and quicker. they went up once a year to go to the india run. the big ships mix fleet took with them, amongst many other things, spices, tech styles. oh, so diamonds went, of course, 1st of these went to home, but then immediately to enter because it was a big harbor and center of, of europe. and it was a safe space in the 15th century, a major innovation sealed and works reputation as the place to be for diamonds. the scale a polishing wheel, that revolutionize diamond, coughing, and vastly increased their popularity. ad trips local hero load of exxon back and his credited with his invention. and while historic evidence to this effect has been, his legend prevail a ton back in was also allegedly jewish, and part of

a community that was key to antwerp style and success at a time when many countries restricted where jews could work their time and expertise flourished in antwerp, jews were not allowed to enter accounts, but one of the professions that they could do was diamond cutting diamonds, trading. so that's what they did. and then the other thing is time is, are small. and you can take them with you very easily and put it in your pocket. you're gonna have a few millions in your pocket. and you can go somewhere else and use where, what haunted for many, for centuries. and so that was of this is they could take with them very well easily and then start over somewhere else. the historic connection between diamonds and the jewish people is still visible in the entropy diamond districts were over. $1700.00 companies for diamond exchanges, and diamond professionals from all over the world colleagues is in a tiny area and up the square mile. more than 80 percent of the rooms, rough time,

and still passed through here, making it one of the most tightly guarded places in the world. come to 1000 security cameras, make sure millions worth of precious cargo can change hands quickly and safely. in solar and secretive for decades, these microcosm in the center of antwerp has fascinated the film industry. diamonds and not just about money, isn't now not as the perfect backdrop for crime thrillers. some even based on true events like the famous antwerp diamond ties that se, make off with over $100000000.00 worth of glittering loot. that to this day has never been found. the win supply in india, i began to dry up our cheese. more miners discovered edmonds in brazil then an

oddly shiny pebble on a farm and south africa, a spark. the world's 1st diamond rush. so i had to africa's very 1st time in mind now in the city of kimberly, from 1871 to 1914, some 50000 miners toiled here under brutal conditions, digging 240 meters into the earth in search of the elusive stones. later, the defunct mind became known as the big hole. today, kimberly's big hole is a major tourist attraction. it's the deepest man made hole on the planet. and a great reminder of how the global diamond industry began and it began largely thanks to the beers, a company that controlled the production of most of the world's diamonds for over a century with a monopolist strategy that increased their value by making them artificially scarce . as one former term and observed psychology could do the rest,

the queen. indeed, no one did more to incur diamonds in public consciousness than to beers. after world wide diamond sail slumped during the depression of the 1930s, the company decided to whip up demand. we're better to do it then the united states were post for consumers and took off. the results was the most successful marketing slogan in history. a diamond is forever not only a queen should diamonds with romance, and determined love. it even told young men how much they should spend 2 months the last for ever and to be or is used to popular culture to create a need for don diamond this forever. the engagement ring was the anchor of what we were taught to believe and aspire to that diamonds. but they also did it by putting it movies. they've paid the studios for that. they've paid them

to put that jewelry in and to use the word diamonds. the movie titles in the book, titles in song died. it worked like a charm. if only 10 percent of american brides had diamond engagement rings in 1940 by 1990, that number skyrocketed to 80 percent the. but what about those blue stones? diamonds come in full colors of the rainbow, often due to trace securities, the element door on makes the diamond blue, while nitrogen makes it yellow, only one in $10000.00 diamonds has what's known as a fancy color, making them extremely rare. otherwise, the ideal diamond is colorless. the valuable diamond is largely decided by the 4 seas apparent weight. how big it is, the color, the clarity, the cost of the diamond created in the 1940s. the force,

these are universal method for assessing the quality of a diamond. in addition to color clarity, carrot weight, and caught a g i. a grading report certifies to the diamond is genuine. certification came into focus in the ninety's when the term blood diamonds emerge. to describe diamonds used to finance, brutal, civil movers, emblematic of the crisis for countries like sierra leone and angola. an international outcry led to the establishment of a global certification scheme to regulate the rough diamond trade. but when hollywood brought the crisis to the big screen in blood diamond, stirring jim on home to emily and under dicaprio, with the idea of diamonds as perpetuate as of violence and suffering struck a numerous today. only 5 percent of rough diamonds come from ortiz and those sources. but an industry built on the spoils of colonial exploitation, had to do more to restore credibility for diamond heavy weights like to be yours

right down to smaller jewelry brands, ethical sourcing, and providence became a new directive. but no system is water tight. today, russia is the world's largest diamond exposure, and it's war in ukraine means russian stones are, despite sanctions, the new conflict, diamonds, back to our 4 seas. and it's the cut that brings out the magic, allowing a diamond to flaunt its fire. diamond cutting evolved over the centuries from simple polishing to cutting a facets to better reflect the night. to day laser technology makes cutting easier and more precise, but the fine polishing is still done by highly skilled artisans. colina vellum is a, is a master cutter in polish, or at royal cost or diamonds in amsterdam were diamond cutting has a long tradition. she's been in the business for 36 years and you can compare, diagnose, let's say research work has grades. so as the studies are great,

so federal simons and you only see one of these rules, then i know how to get assessments on this. i really have to study these roof diamonds and then you put this on this. and this message will be there. only a diamond can cause a diamond. so coding a code source case and a mixture of oil and diamond dust. you can pull this yourself, you're getting really know, put your hands on the whole there with it there. and then you will feel. so i found this case to you exactly how lena is doing her part to keep the sparkle on a dying profession. she's the creator of a tiniest polished brilliance in the world. a fee or interest boss in the guinness book of world records, at just a fraction of the carrots i need to microscope to see it. it's yet another landmark for a company that made its mark by revamping a signature crown jewels,

a queen victoria, on the silent 1852. she had to scold me nor diamonds, but it was very big, but not shiny and not sparkling enough. we sent to publisher from world coastal diamonds to book them about us. and within 2 and a half months we published his diamonds and also that she was really happy. she lost around $77.00 carrots. so that's a lot, and i can tell you, this is the most important diamonds in the world. the, in the world of diamonds go, hey, newer xerox talk. it has seen the rise and fall of many empires. so it has passed to the hands of a local empress bush and show us and we use of f gattis tens, maharajah of bun shop and then find it ends up in the british drone to. at this point, the british felt that if they could have the june of india, the goal, he knew they could have india. rena aaliyah is an award winning canadian artist and

jewelry designer. for years he's been captivated by a stone. she says is ingrained in the indian psychic queen or means mountain of light. originally from india, iran of ganesh, done, and pakistan has only claim to it ever since a 10 year old maharajah was forced to hand it over to queen victoria. i always wanted to paint the cause, you know, because i felt there was no diamond in all for history. that m g actually so much it carry so much of a motion. so much of baggage, so much of beauty of the is of power and conquests. the fact that legendary diamonds lexical he knew or were objects of such enduring desire made things usually mysterious. other exceptional stones like the french blue, which later became the famous hope diamond, were even said to be cursed, financial ruin, suicide, right?

and even the headings plate, the hopes, various owners, before it was safely deposited in washington, slipped sodium for all to admire. the roll of diamonds, if a visual language shines through in the world of hip hop, where jewelry became its own kind of top culture, diamond's music came as hip hop started to step into his power like closer to the ninety's. the diamonds, of course, being a more expensive commodity to use, became known as a status symbol. so you know hip hop, joy has always been limited in having something that no one else had been her book ice cold hip hop to re history. vicky explores how jewelry much of it, diamond encrusted, became a proclamation of identity with diamond studded name place, pendants, rings, and rules. hip hop artist took austin cases to a new level even in which in our vocabulary. like new orleans, wrap her

b. g in 1999 about the term for flashy diamond studded jewels quickly went mainstream getting into the oxford english dictionary in 2003. today, the more the $90000000000.00 diamond industry is in constant flux. 90 percent of polishing now happens in india and lab growing diamonds are gaining in popularity as a vastly more affordable alternative. a welcome development for the fashion industry, but hugely energy intensive. and with over 60 percent produced in india and china, their sustainability claims are still debatable. the chase for natural diamonds is still a solid one, with the cost of newer players reclaiming diamonds as a necessary part of the african heritage. for designers like sierra leone born such, i'm a tuesday and nigerian born selma, west diamonds can tell a different african still,

sorry. i keep talking about what's one of them because they are shining lights in the industry. i hope that they would be a wonderful template. you know, in terms of an african story where people actually empowered from the natural resources that come from the drum influenza is like tracy allison, a k, a, the diamonds girl agree, actively sharing her extensive diamond knowledge and ethical sourcing advice. with over 1200000 followers on instagram as the world's 2nd largest producer, what's one it is africa's poster child for the positive societal impact. but diamonds can have diamonds account for 80 percent of exports and unique partnerships with diamond producers have made it the middle income country that provides free health care and education to all its citizens. back in johannesburg, more proof that diamonds are part of real change on the ground in africa is no leafy late seeking a 2nd generation master diamond culture. and the 1st black on site holder at the

beers. he's part of a select group that can purchase the beers, rough diamonds in bulk. i remember, i mean stories of black people and saw that people were not even not allowed to to know how to cut in police diamonds. you know, and today to have somebody who's black and who's become inside hold, it goes to show how much change has happened over time. you know, and i think that's what makes me proud about it. it, it via the games. the sense that transformation is really happened. the notion of beneficiary ation or more industry volume for diamond producing countries themselves is fundamental to empowering a growing community of african diamond professionals. back in antwerp, other players are countering the industries legacy with technology and new business models. like h b and for which aims to revolutionize the diamond supply chain. using just one mind in both swanner. they deal only in stone. their 10 carrots are more so called

industry specialists by cutting out all the middle men in the supply chain. we managed to create a upside of 40 percent on the diamonds that they're selling to the world, to the government of what's wrong to compare to the previous often using block chain technology and its own closed loop system h b and for can trace and log every step of a diamonds journey from mine to finger streamlining diamond processing means higher returns for the value chain and transparency for consumers in south africa, natural diamond support jobs and entire communities. and as petro diamond's ecologist shows me also bio diversity and extensive restoration efforts from mining, we also have to work sustainably. so what i'm doing is to look at the natural capital, look at your ika system functions and look at ways to actually presume

those functions, diamonds, needs to show that it's not just taking but giving back as well. the hardest, most resistant material on earth has incredible staying power. and as a finite resource, a diamonds, rarity is also being put into perspective. the contribution from in the diamonds is going to, you know, impact the supply side of the equation. but i don't think that the ultimately going to be, you know, a situation that puts a natural time industry out of business. humans. since the beginning of time has have one or, you know, rare and process and valuable, you know, natural gemstones and precious metal. so i don't think that's going to change any time soon as a driver of change and culture through the ages. perhaps the diamonds mystique lies in the many contradictions that represents a stone that's clear tour, devoid of meaning, get invested with countless stories and emotional connections. as natural wonders enhanced by human skills,

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