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Visual Tour: How a Real Diamond Is Made In Days

Photos: Jeffrey Camp

It doesn't take a million years anymore to create a real diamond. With some high-powered machines that generate 850,000 pounds of pressure and 2,800 degrees of heat, one tiny seed grows into a sparkling yellow diamond, found to be very rare in nature. The company plans to introduce pink diamonds in 2008.

Click on the photos below to tour Gemesis Corp.'s diamond-growing factory in Sarasota.