The Taylor-Burton Diamond

The uncut diamond of the Taylor-Burton was found in 1966 in the Premier Mine and weighed 240.80 ct. Elizabeth Taylor received the polished stone with 69 ct. as a gift from your fifth husband Richard Burton.

The rough diamond was purchased by Harry Winston. When the stone arrived in New York, studying Harry Winston and his cleaver Pastor Colon Jr. diamonds for six months. Drawings were created, discarded and recreated again to find out how the stone could be cleaved. Then came the big day when the stone was cut. The voltage, which brings with it such an operation was not heated by the heat and light of headlights because the TV had permission to be present at this event. After the diamond was split, the Cleaver SGATE Pastor Colon nothing. He leaned over his workshop containers, take to the cleaved piece diamond itself. He looked through his horn-rimmed glasses for a second on the stone, whether there had been a fracture - he exclaimed, "Beautiful!" The blank as a breakaway weighed 78 ct. and was for a cut stone of 24 carats.

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We have Various diamonds jewelery for sale. This includs princes cut diamonds, but also other diamond rings.

In the future I would like to include other diamond products and jewellery. I also think of diamond scales and uncut diamond testing kits.

Actino Software presents new tools for application of ISO standards

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Euskirchen, the 09/02/2011: Actino Software presents at the DMS Expo in Stuttgart various desktop and server applications and SDKs, which allow an ISO-compliant lean production, processing and validation of PDF documents. At the booth of callas software (Hall 7, Stand B51) show the PDF-specialists, such as support companies, manufacturers and integrators to global standards and use for themselves.

The ISO has adopted various standards, which enables a safe output, distribution, reuse, and archiving of PDF documents. The normal PDF standard offers an enormous range of functions, which may well be in conflict with the requirements of specific applications. Therefore, there are strict rules as a PDF need for archiving (PDF / A), for the transformation pressure (PDF / VT), for barrier-free access (PDF / UA) or print (PDF / X) look.

Diamonds: Wedding jewelry as an investment

While gold is a deposit insurance in low-interest periods, you should buy rather than diamond jewelry because as an investment. For private investors trading is difficult and expensive.
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uncut diamonds softened up during grinding

The diamond is the hardest material in the world. But why does the crystal of carbon grind nonetheless valuable gems? Quantum physicists have now found out a surprising answer: the carbon atoms are "liquid".

A team of German researchers has discovered why diamonds - can grind at all - after all, the hardest material in the world: When polishing its surface is soft, so to speak. It is formed between the stone and the diamond chips of the grinding wheel, a layer in which the individual carbon atoms are much less tightly bound together than in the crystal itself, this layer can then either be mechanically using the disk or removed chemically by the action of atmospheric oxygen . "The moment in which the diamond is cut, the diamond is not a diamond more," Michael Moser brings the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg, the results of the study to the point.

Russian diamonds will bring billions

Russia is the IPO of the state diamond company Alrosa before you want to bring to 1.7 billion euros.
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The Russian state diamond company Alrosa could take a media report, a public offering of up to 2.3 billion dollars (1.7 billion euros). Alrosa wants next year 20 to 25 percent of its shares into circulation, reported business daily Vedomosti said on Monday, citing unspecified parties. JP Morgan has estimated the value of the company at 7.3 to 9 billion dollars.

With the proceeds from the IPO should be the reduction of the gem should be encouraged. In September, Alrosa had announced that it expects the current year with revenues of 3.34 billion dollars. Alrosa shares about a quarter of the world's uncut diamond trading.

Small diamonds manual

Diamonds were the four C's of diamonds as a classification and should mark their quality: Clarity, Color, Cut and Carat. Over time, however, has been joined yet another C and that's a good thing. "Confidence" certified diamonds, are financed with the proceeds not of conflicts, they apply so as a so-called blood diamonds.

Clarity refers to the purity of the diamond. In the majority of diamonds come with a magnifying glass for the specialist very small, natural features to be seen. These margins prevent the light can penetrate freely the stone. The smaller and has less of a diamond margins, the more valuable and pure, he is also known. Is categorized in the following way

to detect at 10x magnification:

Flawless - if
Very, very small features - vvsi
Very small features - vsi
Small features - si

visible to the naked eye:

Significant features - p1
Major features - p2
Coarse features - p3

Under the paint color of the diamond is classified. The more colorless the more valuable! This is divided by the English name of the subdivision or to GIA standards. The colorless, blue and white diamonds are denoted by river and take the letters D and E. They are followed by fine white (Top Wesselton) with the letters F and G, white (Wesselton) called H and slightly tinted white (Top Crystal) with the letters I and J. Then the follow up to the tinted shades (yellow) diamonds with the letter Z.

The cut makes the diamond until his incredible charisma. The ideal cut is the brilliant-cut, because he only brings optimum brilliance and color splitting, so the polished finish and polished diamonds can rekindle his true fire. Fundamental importance of both the number of facets (56 facets is brilliant), and their distribution on the top and bottom of the stone, and their symmetrical arrangement in size and its angle to the Rundistenebene. In short, it must all vote and requires a high degree of skill, so that a diamond is given the perfect finish.

Carat refers to the weight of an uncut diamond. A Carat is equal to 0.2 grams A Carat is in turn divided into 100 points. A diamond with 50 points thus has 0.5 carat weighs 0.1 grams and

As mentioned initially called Confidence the origin of the diamond. This certification only carry diamonds that were mined by the criteria of the international Kimberley Agreement and will not provide funding for weapons and wars.