Rose Quartz
Though its pretty pink tones give this stone a feminine allure, so does its legendary powers. Rose quartz is the stone of universal love. It gives inner peace and helps in all matters pertaining to love, opening the heart to love. Known as the stone marital love, it is believed that a marriage can have more sparkle and fire when you keep a rose quartz under your pillow. From its feminine qualities it draws the power of youth and beauty. Its wearer is to look younger, rejuvenating the skin and fading winkles.
Diamond
A diamond is just carbon in its most concentrated form. That’s it — carbon, the element that makes up 18 percent of the weight of your body. In many countries, including the United States and Japan, there is no other gemstone as cherished as the diamond, but in truth, diamonds are no rarer than many other precious gems. They continue to demand higher market prices because the majority of the diamond market is controlled by a single entity.
Diamond is the mineral with the highest strength and hardness. The process of mining diamonds takes advantage of these properties. The kimberlite rock that hosts the diamond crystals is crushed into a fine gravel, and the diamonds within are not damaged, merely freed.
The first diamonds were likely found in alluvial deposits. Diamonds are extremely durable, and easily survive transport downstream for many miles, especially those crystals with only minor flaws. As a consequence, alluvial diamonds tend to be higher quality (on average) than those mined directly from the source, as the inferior stones were destroyed in transit.
Diamonds transported by streams of water tend to concentrate in the deep pockets immediately downstream of rapids and waterfalls, as diamonds are relatively dense. Also, the falls and rapids themselves migrate upstream, burying the diamonds under additional deposits. Streams and rivers eventually reach the ocean. In some areas, especially along the coasts of South Africa, millions of years of floodwaters have deposited diamonds along the shore, where the action of waves has concentrated diamonds into rich deposits (often buried deeply within the sand). Note that sea level has changed considerably over the life of the Earth, and thus ancient beaches may be found (now buried) hundreds of meters above or below the present sea level.
However, it should be noted that diamonds are not limited to volcanic regions and their alluvial deposits. Glaciers also transport diamonds, and consequently even in ancient sea bottom areas such as Indiana and Ohio, diamonds have been found. These are hundreds of miles south of the kimberlite deposits in Canada that are undoubtedly the source of the diamonds. These glacial deposits have never been found to provide commercially recoverable quantities.
