Historical overview of the diamond
India was the first country to have produced diamonds in the world, and remained the only source for him until the year 1720, and then discovered diamonds in Brazil, which has become the largest producer in the world in 1740 until 1876, and during this period discovered diamonds in South Africa in Rkamyat River Fall Vaal, and within three years was ten thousand workers prospector who Bnkhal Rsupac river and Tsoelha aim of searching for diamonds, and extended the research and exploration later to land high in 1870, where he began to find the pipes diamond explosive, and opened the first mine in the Boltfontain Bultfontein of the province of the Kimberley Kemberley, as was found in 1871 on the pipeline carrying the Diamond area of Illagrsfontain Jagersfontein, discoveries followed one another and then founded several companies and monopolies. By 1889, the monopoly the English Cecil Rhodes Cecil Rhodes to include companies that produce diamonds, all in one company under the name De Beers Mines Standard De Beers Consolidated Mines Company, and thus Rhodes has established the company's monopoly the only diamond in South Africa, became the company's controlling Diamond in the world until 1960. He discovered the diamond the first time in Russia in 1928 in the Ural Mountains and discovered in 1954-1955 new mines for diamonds in eastern Siberia and then in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. In the early sixties of the twentieth century has changed world with regard to extraction of diamonds and trade in it, the emergence of important discoveries of deposits of diamonds in the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the beginning of the emergence of national liberation movements in South African diamond-producing and its attempts to be free economically monopolies and management of natural resources on the other hand . What about the progress made by De Beers established a large corporation to control the production of natural diamonds in the world diamond production and specialization large scale of the decoration in the South African diamond manufacturing as well as laboratory and the laboratory in Ireland. And De Beers is a strong competitor to the U.S. company General Electric General Electric, which started producing synthetic diamonds since 1957 and provides about 25% of the needs of America's industrial diamonds used in modern technology.
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