[dagw]

So diamonds cost the ballpark of $50 per kilogram.

Close. Current prices for industrial diamonds seem to be more like $100-400 pr. kilogram depending on exactly what you want. Of course those diamonds aren't exactly the type you put into jewelry.

[masklinn]

> Current prices for industrial diamonds are more like $100-400 pr. kilogram

IIRC the price was closer to 20 times that for diamond dust, did something change very recently?

[dagw]

No idea. I just googled a bit and pulled some numbers from a few different bulk suppliers I found (all in China). Perhaps competition from china has had a dramatic effect on prices?

[masklinn]

Or they're bullshit suppliers advertising ridiculous prices and wares, like the company advertising kilograms of stuff only made on milligram-scales since it was discovered (don't remember where I saw that, probably the comments of a "things I won't work with" entry)