Re: OT: Marcury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds

In article <v8iihu$2q9s6$1@dont-email.me>, bill.sloman@ieee.org says...

 
To jewellers. We mine 27 metric tons of diamonds, and make 900 metric
tons of synthetic diamonds,essentially all for industrial applications.
 
We wouldn't be doing that if industrial diamonds were "almost
worthless". The fact the gem-quality diamonds can be sold for a lot more
money than industrial diamonds doesn't make industrial diamonds
worthless - if gem-quality diamonds fell out of fashion we'd still be
digging up and making a lot of industrial diamonds.
 
 
 

From what I could find in a quick search the industrial diamonds are
only about 10 to 20 dollars per carat vers the seveal thousand dollars
the jewel  quality ones would cost.  That is where I base my
'worthless' price at.
Industry still uses a lot of them in many processes so they are valuable
for use but worthless for money cost.