Who will Buy A Valuable Pink Diamond?

Australias largest pink diamond has been unearthed by Rio Tinto at its Argyle mine in Western Australia. It is a 12 .6 carat diamond thought to be the one of the most valuable diamonds in the world.   Rare pink diamonds can fetch around $1,000,000 per carat making this one worth over 12 million dollars. This rare find will be cut and polished over the next few weeks before being showcased around the world then offered for tender.  Pink diamonds such as this can reach prices 20 times that of the traditional white diamonds.
It will be sought after by the very rich and famous, and no doubt there will be a lot of strong competition to see who gets to keep this rare stone.
The cut and polish process will take up to 10 days to complete and will be done by  one of Rio Tintos employees.
You can only imagine the pressure he will be under, handling this rarest  and most valuable of gems. What if he  makes a slip up and loses it  or cracks it while working on it?  The risk of theft or  sabotage would be huge.  I have to say even the thought of doing that work would make me nervous.
A  beautiful rare pink diamond is about to be tested for its value. We will wait anxiously to hear the final bid.
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Pink Diamond coming up for Sale. Bids over 12 million dollars may be considered.

I had a beautiful diamond ring given to me by my husband for our engagement. I still have the ring but I had to have some minor alterations on it. One of the small diamonds became loose with the passing of time so I took it to the jewellers to have it re set. 

After paying 800 dollars for the work I was still disappointed with the result. What disappointed me most was that it no longer looked like my original diamond. The problem is I have no way of proving that it is or it isn't.

The ring was with the jeweller for some weeks while he worked on it  so he had plenty of opportunity to switch it for a less opulant stone even a fake one.  It somehow is no longer the same ring with the same sentimental attachment.

I am wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this whgen getting a special piece of jewellery modified.
I would love to hear from you if you have and also what you did about it.

 I have never been really attached to any pieces of jewellery other than that ring and a pearl necklace my hubby gave me as a wedding gift.  That too came to grief as while we were out when the children we younger I came home to find the string of pearls was broken and only a few remained. I have not been able to find the rest.
Perhaps for me costume jewellery should be the order of the day as the real thing seems to be doomed.

Why Diamonds?

I was just sitting here at my PC wondering what I would write and the question popped into my head :why diamonds., why not opals or rubies or saphires. I need to find out. Have you ever wondered about this question too?  Diamonds have been the gem stone of choice for many years. They were revered as the ultimate symbol of love  and were traditionally given to the woman by her lover when he asked her to marry him. They would settle on a date to make it publicly known and she would wear the ring as a token of his love and affection for her. But that still has not answered the question why diamonds as opposed to other stones?
It is a metaphorical reason. Diamonds are very hard, almost indestructible while at the same time they always keep their beauty and charm, and they are intrinsically strong. This is all symbolic of what a marriage is  intended to be, strong and everlasting remaining beautiful no matter what it went through.
 This practice of giving a woman a special ring featuring a diamond dated back to the mid to late 1400's when Mary of Burgundy was given a ring showcasing a diamond at its center..
The idea was taken up and before long became the accepted practice  especially among the wealthier people in society at the time.
By 1870 diamonds became more affordable to the ordinary people following the discovery of some significant diamond mines in South Africa.
With the great depression in the 1930's diamonds became less affordable and sales plummeted in the lead up to the second world war.
It was the Americans who held on to the symbolism of diamonds lasting forever that kept a market open for them and so diamonds remained the stone of choice.  The ring was placed on the left hand  on what we know as the ring finger. This positioning was chosen because it was believed a vein which leads directly to the heart was in that finger.  


There have been many and varied traditions around the giving of a ring over the centuries. One of these was the tradition during the Middle Ages where a man would keep a ring tied to his hat in readiness for  his bride to be when he found her.
These rings would very often be inscribed with some poetic verse or other message relating the love the man felt for the woman.
I rather like the idea of the gimmel rings which were the chosen style of the Renaissance. These rings could be two or three which would be worn by the groom and his bride until marriage and then on their wedding day they would be  joined together to form the wedding ring. There are many instances of royalty during the period, doing just that.
Over the years there have been many different ways of expressing meaning and love through the gift of a ring. Sometimes, among the very wealthy they would choose  several different precious stones to spell a word such as dear, diamond, emerald, amethyst and ruby, taking the first letter of each stone to spell out what was being conveyed.
Diamonds however have remained the traditional stone for engagement rings to this day and jewellers will go to great lengths to design a ring which highlights the beauty of the diamond as well as being  a piece of art.








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True to form, my hubby did find the most beautiful rose for me for  today,Valentines day. It was a Queen Elizabeth, a lovely soft pink rose. He cut it with a long stem and tied a pink ribbon on it and presented it to me at breakfast. What a charmer.
He is the most wonderful man I know and I continue to love him more and more.
When he proposed to me some 44 years ago, he just out of the blue stopped the car along the road side on the way back from a  Skiing trip at Mount Hotham.
I was not expecting the question, it was like it just popped into his head and he had to get it out there and then.  I looked out the window of the car and saw a sign stating where we were. It was a little place called Providence Ponds, just west of Bairnsdale.  I laughed, and he could not work out why I was laughing.  At first he misunderstood and thought I was laughing at him and the question he had just put to me.  Instead I explained it was not that at all but the name of the place where he chose to pull over and ask me. . We laughed together as I responded positively with a big YES and he slipped a magnificent diamond ring on my finger. That was back in 1968.
 We married the following year and are still very happy now. That does not mean we did not have some turbulent times. We did but we always managed to work through them. Sometimes if  I was cross at him about something I would confront him, expecting an angry verbal exchange. But that did not happen. He would just go quiet or sing a song or just hum a tune and that would fire me up more.  But it was no use arguing as his silence on the matter always won.
We have 3 grown children and 5 grandsons and we just love them all. The eldest grandson has just joined the workforce, taking on an apprenticeship.
A few years ago he became extremely ill after a toxic shut down and the doctors did not think they could  save him. We called friends and family and we prayed like we had never prayed before and the Lord him back to us after 3 weeks in a coma. Now he works like a 40 year old and loves like a 25 year old.  I have been given the most precious gift of all, the gift of time with the man of my life.

This is so not true. 
Girls if diamonds are your best friend then I have to feel very, very sorry for you.
Diamonds are cold and hard and expensive. They can be the object of someones lust and an excuse for violent crime.
They are anything but your best friend.
Marilyn Monroe must have been totally deluded when she sang those words.
  Expensive gifts do not bring happiness, they can do just the opposite and bring great sorrow. The reason is the person who gave the gift holds you to ransome, you feel a certain obligation to them that may cause you to continue in a relationship that is only going to make you miserable.
This may not always be the case but it so often is.  I have been in some third world countries where the people have little more than the clothes they wear , yet they are intrinsically happy. There are no diamonds for them, but there are beautiful smiles and occasional gifts of flowers to bring joy to a girls heart.  It is the simple things in life that make us really happy.
 Being hugged by our partner or by our children. Sitting together by the beach watching the sun go down, building sandcastles, working together in the garden. These are just a few of the things that make them happy and should make all of us happy.


It is Valentines Day again next week.  Many men will go out and buy expensive gifts for their girlfriends or wives.  My man usually will do something quite simple but ever so loving. He will go out into the garden and cut the nicest rose he can find and place it carefully on the pillow beside me so that when I wake it is there as a symbol of his love.




 


Who needs diamonds? Oh yes they are beautiful, but they can also be cruel . We need to learn to be content with the simpler things in life.
I just love it when hubby says, lets go for a walk along the beach"   and we walk and talk until the sun goes down then return home to  share a meal.
My very best friend folks is my husband, not anything  he could buy, not even all the diamonds in the world would replace that love I feel for him.

No diamonds are not a girls best friend, not at all.
 They are certainly lovely to have and especially if they are given as a token of love but they should never be valued more than than the person who gave them.
I love my husband dearly and we have been married for 44 years and looking forward to many more.
It is not diamonds I want but time. 

However if you must have diamonds don't  pay too much for them
 I have a special offer for you below, you can bless the special person in your life with a piece of jewellery featuring those wonderful, magical and sparkling stones, the diamonds.