For those with a little extra cash

[carnelianpete]

Video about some diamonds that are up for sale. Anyone have some money I can borrow?

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33886411#33886411

Pete

[Dicky the Rockhunter]

hmmmm do ya think they would take trade?

[carnelianpete]

I think they would trade with you Dick. Maybe if you could pick up that whole mtn you live next to with all that lovely topaz and aquamarine.

Pete

[Doug]

Now THOSE are some nice diamonds thanks to the colors. The diamond market overall is one of the biggest scams running though. Warehouses FULL of them in Israel, Switzerland and Belgium as well as all over Africa. I knew some missionaries in Africa who were putting up a new building and took their truck to the nearby river to get a load of sand. As soon as they got back to the mission the soldiers arrived to take away their sand, which had diamonds in it!! Thank the DeBeers monopoly for the HUGE prices on stones MUCH less rare than either quality rubies, sapphires, emeralds or many garnets. In MY opinion diamonds are GREAT for polishing colored stones but highly over rated otherwise.

[amythestguy]

Doug you are absolutely 100% right! if only the general public knew this..a nice sapphire is a much better e-ring than any diamond

[carnelianpete]

You got that right about sapphires Jason. I remember when people talked about these sapphires when the most prized was said to be those that had a "cornflower blue" color. I remember them talking about them in awe and sort of a little mystical quality about them. I've never seen anyone speak of diamonds that way except for maybe the larger ones. For grins the pic below is of the Star of India. I took this at the Museum of History in NY. It is almost flawless and unusual in that it has stars on both sides of the stone. The other pics are of other star sapphires they had there I do not recall if they had names or not. These stones to me are much more worthy of the title "precious" than diamonds are.