As is often true, the best things in life are worth waiting for. And so it is with natural diamonds.
Formed under intense pressure deep within the earth over hundreds of millions of years,
diamonds are escorted closer to the surface by volcanic magma called kimberlite.
If you were fortunate to happen upon a diamond in the rough, it would bear resemblance to beach glass.
Cloudy. Randomly shaped. Unremarkable for the most part. But to the trained eye, secrets and risks lie inside.
A billion-year-old surprise waiting to be revealed.