I've always found diamond to be an ugly stone.
Corundum is where it's at.
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.Seventy million pounds that someone will spend on that. Not that there's people starving or anything.
Likes many underrated webcomicsToo brittle and easily scratched. Amethyst is a fine gem; but it is basically just colored quartz, and you can break quartz pretty easily if you want to.
If you want to make an object out of amethyst, you should make a cup — the Romans thought that it protected from poisoning, if I remember correctly.
EDIT: It also protected from drunkenness, apparently.
EDIT 2: I must admit, I always found minerals and gems interesting. I even took a course on basic mineralogy during my bachelor studies, and it was fascinating. It annoys me that, also because of things like this, an unmarried male cannot wear a gem without projecting an image of "rich idiot with way too much ego and money and not enough common sense". Otherwise, I'd kinda like one of the more tasteful, cheap ones — amethyst, perhaps, in fact.
edited 26th Mar '12 7:36:40 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.Still doesn't beat the One Ring...
Pure diamond rings looks crappy too.
...a little brother should belong to his older sister, right? - Orimura Chifuyu

70 million dollar ring made entirely out of diamond.
No really, the entire ring is one diamond.