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jtbxy jtbxy's Blogs >> 1314 Ice Road Truckers

I¡¯m a History Channel junkie ¨C it is the best idea somebody at the cable company ever had. So one evening this summer I see a trailer about trucking heavy freight over frozen lakes; it sounded interesting so why not watch for a while. Ice Road Truckers is now ¡°must see TV¡± at my house ¨C I am even watching the reruns - which I never do.

If you don¡¯t already know Ice Road Truckers is a reality manolo blahnik show about the truckers who move heavy fright over the frozen lakes, in the dead of winter, to supply the diamond mines of Canada¡¯s Northwest Territory. It is the only time of year the really large and heavy equipment needed to mine diamonds can be moved; the mines are so remote there are no roads and the rest of the year supplies have to be flown in.

In earlier posts I have talked about my love for Canadian diamonds, they are special. We are currently dealers for "Caprice Canadian Diamonds" which come from the Ekati mine as well as ¡°Arctic Love¡± which come from the Diavik mine.

I¡¯ve always been fascinated at what goes into diamond mining ¨C it not simple or inexpensive and when it is done with an eye on the environment, as it is in Canada, I find it truly amazing.

So while you are watching the guys haul tons of heavy freight on a road that is only a few inches of ice -keep these fun diamond facts in mind.

RARITY

It takes a million diamonds mined in order jimmy choo to obtain just one ONE carat diamond

If you take 1,000 piles of diamonds with 1,000 diamonds in each pile - you will only find one ONE carat diamond

1 pile of 1,000 diamonds takes more than a day to sort through - so it's a year endeavor to find one ONE carat diamond.

5 million diamonds are mined to find one single TWO carat diamond

80% of all diamonds mined are for industry, such as NASA, drills, etc., only 20% are gem quality

MINING

The only diamond mines known left are in Australia, Russia, and Africa and now Canada!

It would tiffany take 250 one-ton dump trucks full (1 mile long) to find one ONE carat diamond! That's 250 tons to find ONE ONE CARAT!

At the current rate of production, all diamond mines will be mined out in 40 years

Only one out of every 10 people have ever touched a 1 carat diamond

And some tiffany jewellery say diamonds have no value!