RE: why mine when you can manufacturethere are two companies in the u.s. that are capable of manufacturing flawless colorless diamonds for less then $1000/carat
one of them is appollo diamonds and the other is gemesis each using a different technique both distinguisable from the excavated diamonds because the artificial diamonds are too perfect totally flawless right down to the microscopic level. There was a story on both cos. posted at 321 gold acouple of years back they were both trying to create diamond chip wafers for the computer industry.