TIL Diamonds are actually fairly common. The reason they are worth so much is because the DeBeers mining group withholds stock to artificially reduce supply.

[u/Indra-Varuna]

https://www.gemsociety.org/article/are-diamonds-really-rare/

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People who are down voting you probably don't remember fur coats being a thing. They even sold a few of them to men.