CHINA - Second Largest Diamond Market

With a last year raise of the trading at Shanghai Diamond exchange of 16.4% and total of 1.5 billion dollars China took the second place from Japan as the second biggest diamond market in the world. With the high 8.7% growth of the economy, diamond jewelery demand continued to grow. 

Until 2008, Japan was the second biggest market for diamonds and diamond jewelery, but China growing middle class is a huge potential market for diamonds and diamond jewelery. Although China diamond market is new (from mid 90's) the potential is great and all serious diamond traders are turning their eyes in this direction. The growing high and middle class in China is deeply influenced by the western style of living and their shopping and consumer habits are becoming similar to the consumer habits of their western counterparts.

Really BIG DIAMONDS

Diamond big as icebergs, continents and Earth

Scientists come out with a most exciting hypotheses about the geological structure of the Solar System most strange planets like Neptune and Uranus. These remote planets which are gas giants can be covered with sea of melted diamond and with a chunks of hard diamonds big as icebergs.
Are the scientists just confirming the 40 year old prophecy of the Science Fiction writers like Arthur C. Clarke?
In one of his books he wrote that the core of Jupiter can be a solid diamond big as the whole planet Earth.

A new experiment made in the laboratory revealed some exciting data about this possible phenomena. Also this is one of the possible explanations about the Neptune’s magnetic field.

The experiment produce a liquid diamond using pressure and electricity similar to Neptune and Uranus pressures and electricity.