When a woman reflects about her glistening HPHT (high-pressure high-temperature) diamond and remembers how fortunate she was to receive it, she thinks about the time her heart skipped in rhythm when she heard those tender, loving words, "Will You Marry Me?"  In this article, we will discuss how this magnificent journey actually started much earlier.  An HPHT diamond set in an engagement ring is a continuance of an astounding multi-billion year process. The diamond is a crystallized morsel of eternity, and the life we behold, here on earth.

An HPHT diamond is born from the earth, as natural as the Hope diamond or any of the diamonds in the British crown jewels. There are types of diamonds that sprinkled from the sky in meteorites and micro-diamonds that formed in the fireworks display of asteroids initiating contact with the Earth. However, an HPHT diamond originates from a low-nitrogen, brownish diamond (rare Type IIa), found in lush, exotic and uniquely resource-rich locations, such as Australia.