Diamonds were first worn in India as jewels some 5000 years plus ago and more than 3000 years ago they were used as gravers and cutters. The main supplies came from India until the year 1700 when it was then discovered in Brazil. They were the largest producer until Diamonds were discovered in South Africa in 1869. Prior to discovering the African Diamonds, they were known to originate only from the high mountains, use the that’s because they were found in India and Brazil on the high mountains, on the sides of mountains, in the beds, streams, in the plains below and where the mountain run off had rolled them.
For the first time in Africa where the Diamonds were found at the highest levels on the mountain top, open chasm, chimneys or pipes leading to unknown depths. Nature sort of forced them there, slow rivers of peculiar blue clay, a diamondiferous earth termed “serpentine breccia” or “volcanic tuf” now known by the name “Kimberlite” As this soft mixture forced its way through the chimney or pipes from the bottom, it gradually forced upwards, filling the whole chasm from wall to wall and to the top, where the progress ended by hardening in a small mound ten to twelve feet higher than the surrounding surface.
In this blue clay or Kimberlite in these chimneys, is found nature’s most wonderful creation, the diamond crystallized from pure carbon, in intense heat and under titanic pressure.
