Diamonds are found every day.
Blood diamonds become blood diamonds when they are traded for money to finance terrorism, mayhem and other crimes against humanity. Diamonds found anywhere can become blood diamonds, therefore, depending on how they are traded.
Diamonds are typically found in kimberlite pipes or alluvial deposits, with major diamond-producing countries including Botswana, Russia, Canada, and Australia. These natural deposits have undergone complex geological processes over millions of years to form diamonds.
Diamonds have been part of human history for more than 6,000 years. The best estimates are that the earliest diamonds were found in India. Whether these stones were actually mined, or were simply picked up from the dirt is unknown. Mining for diamonds commercially can be traced to India, Brazil and South Africa in the 1800s.
It's possible that diamonds were discovered in India as long ago as 6,000 years. Without documentation, it might be difficult to settle on a precise year in which diamonds were first mined. Initially, it's understandable that diamonds were found far from their point of origin, having been washed into riverbeds by water running over the diamond pipe.
'Blood' describes the mining method, not the type or quality of the stones found. Blood diamonds are diamonds excavated from the earth by people who work as 'slaves', and whose work with diamonds can cause them to bleed to death when the overseer hacks off their hand or shoots the slave on a whim. Because one digs blood diamonds at gunpoint, you might not want to volunteer for this job. At gunpoint, or knife-point or under other threat of death or physical mayhem, you stand in a stream and pick through rocks in the stream bed, or dig with a shovel and fill sorting trays with earth, while another 'slave' sifts through the earth searching for diamonds.
Diamonds are not found in a great many different places. Diamonds are not found floating in the ocean for example.
Diamonds are commonly found in volcanic pipes.
No, no natural diamonds are found in New Zealand.
Diamonds are found below level 16 of the world.
The diamonds themselves are, well, diamonds. They're found mixed in with other rock, though.
Coal and diamonds are both forms of carbon.
Diamonds are found on every continent except Antarctica and Europe - so yes, diamonds are found in India.
Diamonds are found on every continent on earth except Europe and Antarctica.
The Cullinan and Excelsior Diamonds were found in South Africa.
All diamonds are found in the earth.
Real diamonds can be found in Arkansas.
While diamonds are durable and can last a long time, their value is not truly eternal. The perception of diamonds as forever may be more of a marketing myth than a reality.