RE: RE: Heavy.... (Metal .... Deep)..... PurpleOk! I'll bite on that.
I was formulating from what I have read here and memory of other general diamond stuff that it would be the reverse.
More of the smaller diamonds approach the crystal perfection in their latice. Thus the resistance to slip should be greatedt here. The larger the stone the more the internal deficiencies or inperfections. These inperfections may be the starting point of crystal deformation. HOWEVER the more defects in the larger crystal makes it more likely that the resulting slipage is more chaotic and the resulting color less saturated and more patchy.
In the small more perfect crystals if the pressure is increased uniformily and the movement on one cleavage should trip all or most of the cleavage plains like a chain reaction because the high overall stress has the entire crystal at the elastic limit. The first shock trigers all the other planes to move because they are all near their limit.
One might expect the cleavage with a lot of flaws to triger the cascade in other similarely tensioned cleavage surfaces and the resistance in the pergect part of the crystal to be unmoved.
I love the stuff you guys have to teach me BUT it must come down to what the test says in the end. No matter what
THE FOUNDATION kmowledge of the deposit Leadbeater has been expertly prepared. I (do your own DD) do not believe anything has been shortcutted. - What carat value is needed to make WAWA go?
$50 x .4C/T = $20 ......?
$60 x .40 = $24 ....?
$70 x .40 = $28 ?
$80 x .40 = $32 ?
$90 x.40 = $36 ?
You get the drift. Somewhere here is the answer. Is it sufficient in your opinions?
sola - the prospectors there abandoned the field before the company became involved - They were not able to feed their families on the few high quality stones they were finding - in my opinion They knew the grade was not there.
KASM.