Diamonds are embedded in drill tips or saw blades, or ground into a powder for use in grinding and polishing applications.

Diamonds are the only of these mineral resources currently being developed ; reported sales of largely uncut diamonds make up close to 60 % of the CAR's export earnings.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

Diamonds are thought to have been first recognized and mined in India, where significant alluvial deposits of the stone could be found many centuries ago along the rivers Penner, Krishna and Godavari.

Diamonds and gold also are mined and exported on a large scale, providing additional foreign exchange.

Diamonds are graded using a system developed by the Gemological Institute of America ( GIA ) in the early 1950s.

Diamonds are meant to sparkle, to break down light into its constituent rainbow colors ( dispersion ), chop it up into bright little pieces ( scintillation ), and deliver it to the eye ( brilliance ).

Diamonds are produced in Leteng, Mothae, Liqhobong and Kao mines.

Smuggling in literature is a common theme, from Bizet's Carmen to the James Bond books ( and later films ) Diamonds are Forever and Goldfinger.

Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen ( the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen ) to the James Bond novel ( and later film ) Diamonds are Forever.

* The first two pages of Ian Fleming's novel Diamonds Are Forever are told from the point of view of an African scorpion which kills and eats a beetle and is then casually crushed and killed itself, by one of the villains whom James Bond would later confront and eventually crush.

Diamonds are graded using criteria that have become known as the four Cs, namely color, cut, clarity and carat weight.

After Diamonds are Forever was published in 1956 Fleming received a letter from Bond enthusiast and gun expert Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising his choice of firearm for Bond.

* Diamonds are Forever ( film ) the seventh official James Bond film starring Sean Connery

Diamonds in general, including the Hope Diamond, are considered to be the hardest natural mineral on the Earth, but because of diamond's crystalline structure, there are weak planes in the bonds which permit jewelers to slice a diamond and, in so doing, to cause it to sparkle by refracting light in different ways.

Additionally, there are R & D institutes including GAZPROM R & D Institute ( Branch of Moscow-based Institute ), Irkutsk Institute of Rare and Precious Metals and Diamonds.

* Likenesses of Astaire and Rogers, apparently painted over from the Cheek to Cheek dance in Top Hat, are in the " Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds " section of The Beatles film Yellow Submarine ( 1968 ).

After Diamonds are Forever had been published, Fleming received a letter from a thirty-one-year-old Bond enthusiast and gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising the author's choice of firearm for Bond: his suggestions came too late to be included in From Russia, with Love, but one of Boothroyd's guns – a. 38 Smith & Wesson snub-nosed revolver modified with one third of the trigger guard removed – was used as the model for Chopping's image.

This requires that the number of cards in play is divisible by the number of players, so before any hands are dealt, the pack ( s ) is inspected and the appropriate number of innocuous cards of trivial denomination ( low Diamonds / Clubs ) are extracted and discarded.

Blofeld in You Only Live Twice ( Donald Pleasence ), On Her Majesty ’ s Secret Service ( Telly Savalas ), Diamonds are Forever ( Charles Gray ) and Never Say Never Again ( Max Von Sydow ).

In the third, fourth, and fifth appearancesYou Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty ’ s Secret Service and Diamonds are Foreverhe is the primary antagonist, meeting Bond face-to-face.

The Bethalto Khoury League Diamonds are located on the south side of town in the Chateaux residential area.

* Marina and the Diamonds ( born Marina Lambrini Diamandis ), singer-songwriter who was born and brought up in Abergavenny until she moved to London at the age of eighteen.

Historically, Kashiwa's fiercest rivals have been JEF United Ichihara Chiba and Urawa Red Diamonds, both close neighbors.

Diamonds can also be produced synthetically in a high-pressure high-temperature process which approximately simulates the conditions in the Earth mantle.

Diamonds found in kimberlites are rare but well-known xenocrysts ; the kimberlites do not create the diamonds, but pick them up and transport them to the surface of the Earth.

* Regent diamond history in " Great Diamonds of the Earth " by Edwin Streeter

* Planet Mars Dub ( 1978 ), Front Line-The Icebreakers and the Diamonds, dub version of Planet Earth

* Aunt Louisa ’ s London Toy Books: Diamonds and Toads, Warne, 1871.

The episode features footage of Shatner working with Ben Folds on Has Been, plus live footage of Shatner performing with Folds ' band and Joe Jackson, ending with a defiant rendition of The Transformed Man < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds " that is punctuated by Shatner giving the finger.

* Alyssa Quint, Asch ’ s Diamonds, A New Essay Collection Gives an Oft-neglected Master His Due, a review in The Forward

These include Johnnie Allan ’ s “ Lonely Days, Lonely Nights ” ( 1958 ), Buck Rogers ’ “ Crazy Baby ” ( 1959 ), Randy and the Rockets ’ “ Let ’ s Do The Cajun Twist ” ( 1962 ), T. K. Hulin ’ s “ I ’ m Not A Fool Anymore ” ( 1963 ), and Clint West ’ s “ Big Blue Diamonds ” ( 1965 ), among numerous others.

Both " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds " and " Philadelphia Freedom " were originally released as non-album singles, but years later both songs, along with " Lucy "' s B-Side, the John Lennon-penned " One Day at a Time ", were included as bonus tracks on the remastered Captain Fantastic CD reissue.

The Steinmetz Pink was displayed as part of the Smithsonian's " The Splendor of Diamonds " exhibit, alongside the De Beers Millennium Star, the world ’ s second largest ( the Centenary Diamond is the largest ) top colour ( D ) internally and externally flawless pear-shaped diamond at 203. 04 carat ( 40. 608 g ), the Heart of Eternity Diamond, a 27. 64 carat ( 5. 582 g ) heart-cut blue diamond and the Moussaieff Red Diamond, the world's largest known Fancy Red diamond at 5. 11 carats ( 1. 102 g ).

In addition, Ling has been featured in the advertising campaigns for Ann Taylor ’ s 50th Anniversary “ 50 Women ”, Banana Republic, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale's, Bruno Magli, Clairol, Clinique, Daryl K, De Beer's Diamonds, Estee Lauder, Gap, Gucci, Guess?

In the interview accompanying the 2010 English language release of Wajda ’ s war trilogy, of which Ashes and Diamonds is the concluding part, the director says that he asked Zbyszek Cybulski ( who plays Maciek ), if he ’ d seen films with James Dean.

It was to become Chopard ’ s icon and propelled the company into its first high end jewellery line: Happy Diamonds.

Diamonds enveloped in radium salt slowly turned a dark green ; this color was found to be localized in blotchy patches, and it did not penetrate past the surface of the stone.

* Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ): Nevada and Las Vegas locations ; Austin climbing through the window into Alotta Fagina's apartment modelled on how Bond enters Blofeld's apartment ; double entendres by Austin and Vanessa modelled after those made by the two homosexual hitmen ( i. e. " moving ", " heartwarming " in the original film ); No. 2 using a model of the US for explaining the enterprise ; final attack on Austin at the hotel modelled on similar final sequence on the Queen Elisabeth.

Portions of the Little Missouri River flow through the Ouachita National Forest, and the lower segment flows past the Crater of Diamonds State Park.

In the shootout however, it was the Blades who finally edged the Diamonds out 6-5 to go through.

An illustration of the local River Nene runs through the centre of the badge, whilst the football located between the Diamonds and Hoops is self-explanatory.

), the stadium became the home of Rushden and Diamonds following the merger, and underwent major improvements during the 1990s and early 2000s as the club climbed up through the divisions.

Rochdale have participated in the Football League playoffs on three occasions: 2002, where they lost 4 – 3 on aggregate to Rushden and Diamonds, 2008, where they went through to Wembley on penalties, 5 – 4 after a 3 – 3 draw aet over 2 legs, with Ben Muirhead netting the crucial penalty for Dale, however at Wembley despite scoring the first Goal Dale suffered a 3 – 2 loss to Stockport.

The money that is raised is donated to The Four Diamonds Fund, a charity devoted to defeating pediatric cancer through research and caring for patients at the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.

The money that is raised is donated to The Four Diamonds Fund, a charity devoted to defeating pediatric cancer through research and caring for patients at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center Children's Hospital.

A pig has been used as a plot device in three James Bond films: Diamonds Are Forever, where Bond disabled a pig to escape from a pipeline, The Living Daylights, where a pig was modified to secretly transport a person through the Iron Curtain, and The World Is Not Enough, where a pig was used to move a nuclear weapon through a pipeline.

Arguably the most widely seen of Lautner's works, the Elrod House ( 1968 ) became famous through its use as a location in the Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.

The starting lineup against the Auckland Diamonds was Donna Loffhagen and Camille Grubb shooting, Kirsty Broughton, Tasha Marshall and Reinga Bloxham through the mid-court and Bernice Mene and Michelle Krynen on defence.

* The 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever featured a chase scene in which James Bond, running from Las Vegas police, side-rolls a car through an alley exiting onto Fremont Street.

* The 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever featured a chase scene in which James Bond, running from Las Vegas police, side-rolls a car through an alley exiting onto Fremont Street.

Despite interference on his behalf by Cassidy Riley, Raven was decisively beaten after the Diamonds drove him through a table and then pinned him.

* Tirol Log Flume – A traditional log flume ride through the World of Diamonds

* Magic World of Diamonds – A walk through attraction with animatronics