Ballas

Ballas (or shot bort) is a diamond industry term for roughly spherical shards of non-gem-grade diamond, mostly mined in Brazil and South Africa.

[1] A ballas is an aggregate of diamond grains concentrically arranged with radiating structure into a roughly spherical stone with a fibrous texture and without throughgoing cleavage planes.

Tougher and more difficult to cleave than crystalline stones, ballas are used as industrial diamonds.

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