I suspect gold will prove a lot harder to manufacture than diamonds. Gold is created in the explosion of a large supernova that was formed from the remnants of

I suspect gold will prove a lot harder to manufacture than diamonds. Gold is created in the explosion of a large supernova that was formed from the remnants of generations of supernova before, each explosion creating heavier and sometimes totally different elements. All the Silver in the world was formed in a different chain of supernovae to the one that formed all the Gold in the world. (A fact that blows my mind when I think too hard about it.) http://www.world-science.net/othernews/120906_silver.htm http://www.world-science.net/othernews/120906_silver.htm Diamonds need carbon and a fast-moving object to strike it. They are therefore relatively common and relatively easy to make. There is one meteor crater in Russia that contains 3000 years-worth of diamonds (at current consumption rates). It is considered uneconomical to mine for them.