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To: MAD-AS-HELL
Btw, they are now able to make diamonds using high pressure machines at a fraction of the cost of mined diamonds.

Are you sure? As far as I know, synthetic diamonds are much smaller and far, far more expensive than mined diamonds.

9 posted on 12/09/2005 7:24:57 AM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick

not according to this...

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/SavingandDebt/P97816.asp

and if you want to take a loved one's remains and make them into a diamond, go here: http://www.lifegem.com/secondary/whatisLG2006.aspx


14 posted on 12/09/2005 7:51:28 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
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To: CarrotAndStick

Naah -- Not any more.

One of my daughter's former boyfriends gave her a hundred carat honker, she kept it like a rock in her pocket, he works in a factory that presses them out and turns them into drill bits, and this one came out a few thousandths of an inch off spec.

(She lost it on a hike once and we all combed the trail till we found it.)

You'll find a company that makes them in Provo, Utah.


19 posted on 12/09/2005 9:21:25 AM PST by Sundog (cheers)
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To: CarrotAndStick

They could make a 10-15 carat single crystal now, but it is not cheap.


22 posted on 12/09/2005 11:50:24 AM PST by GSlob
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