Both are hard to find because Diamonds and Gold live in rare places.
If you want to find Diamonds or Gold,you might end up with alot of holes.
Blue diamonds are speculated to be rarer than white/clear diamonds because it is more difficult to form naturally. Blue diamonds, as such, are worth more than regular white diamonds
When you roll a fair 6 sided die it is no harder to roll a six than a four. Each possible outcome has the same probability. That is the definition of "fair".
You may be able to purchase industrial diamonds by the ton, and certainly you would pay less for them than you would for a gem-quality diamond. Recently, a blue diamond sold for about US$4,000,000 per carat. Note: one carat equals 0.0000002 ton.
As of February 16th, the current market value of gold is $36.01 USD per gram for 24 carat gold. Gold of a lesser purity is less valuable; 1 gram of 18 carat gold is worth only $27.01. You can expect to receive less than market value if you sell your gold to a pawn shop or an online or mail-in gold buyer.
You asked the question in 4Q09. The first fact about diamond prices is this: a diamond per se is worth about what a buyer will pay for it. People buy and sell diamonds every day for all kinds of reasons and in all kinds of situations.Industrial diamonds have a different price structure than do gem stones. (Assumption here is that you're asking about gem stones.)Diamond prices from the industry's point of view fluctuate according to carat size. Here is a news announcement from an industry source, that shows this fluctuation, below.
Gold is very soft, almost useless for most engineering purposes. Diamond OTOH is the hardest substance known to man.
diamond is alot harder than goldAnother AnswerBy weight, gem-quality diamonds are more valuable than gold. By weight, gold is more valuable than industrial diamonds. Only about 20% of all diamonds mined are gem-quality.
Diamonds are harder than chalk.
Yes
Diamonds aren't always sharper, but they can be manufactured in such a way. Diamonds are harder than steel.
I heard on NPR last year that the total amount of all the gold ever mined would fill two Olympic swimming pools. But I bet this answer will be much harder to find for diamonds. Diamonds are most likely not as rare as they are purported to be. They are used industrially on a much wider scale than industrial uses of gold.
Yes, diamonds can cut glass, because diamonds are harder than glass.
Because diamonds are harder than any metal.
No. No substance known to exist is harder than diamond and especially no other element.
Gold can be both soft and hard depending on how pure it is, pure gold (24K) is softer than a gold alloy. And the lower the number the harder it is. 10K is harder than 14K, 14K is harder than 18K, and 18K is harder than 24K (pure gold).
To burnish means to polish, and your question appears as though you want to use gold to polish a diamond. Since diamond is much harder than gold, if you attempted this task, you would simply burnish away the gold.
By weight, diamonds are worth more because they are much more rare than gold.