Mineralogy

About 5% of engagement rings a decade ago were made up of colored gemstones, while today the percentage is more than 15%

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Nuriye Kayalı chose a calf over a diamond ring for Valentine's Day present 10 years ago. Now, she owns a farm.

"I thought I would lose the ring while working on the farm. A calf, on the other hand, was a window of opportunity," the 42-year-old woman told Anadolu Agency.

She now owns a farm of 30 cows which she calls 'love'.

An x-ray scan at the hospital showed that the ring with a 2.5-carat diamond was still in Campbell's stomach.

Scientists just unearthed an eye-watering hoard of diamonds, so valuable it would completely destroy the world's economy. The scientists reckon there's a quadrillion tonnes of diamond buried in the 'cratonic roots' in continents. There's just one, tiny, catch: the treasure trove is buried 100 miles down, deeper than any drill has ever penetrated, according to MIT researchers.

Turkey's gold reserve is 564.80 tons, according to statistics from the World Council on Gold.

By this indicator, Turkey ranks for the first time among the top 10 countries in the world with the largest reserves of precious metal, moving from 10th India.

An increase in the levels of fine particulate matter in air is expected. Given the norm of 50 mg per cu m, the expected increase will be in the range from 51 to 100 mg per cu m, the municipality of Sofia said.

The largest diamond ever auctioned was sold in Geneva for a record USD 34 million, said Christie's auction house, quoted by the France press.

A Colombia-based gang was brought down after stealing a diamond worth $1 million in Ankara.

"Discussing Diamonds on December Afternoon" represents a collection of short stories from diverse periods of Ismail Kadare's work.

These start with his early writings that bring us back in the distant 1953, when Kadare was 17, to his mature age of creativity, concluded with 2008, when he finalized this collection.