More About Diamonds Are Indeed Rare

Although the technology for synthetic diamonds came into play in 1954, no synthetic diamonds were ever seen on the market until the 1990’s. This was due to the fact that it took many years for General Electric to produce a synthetic diamond that could compare with the outstanding of a normal diamonds – and when they figured out how to do it, they found that it cost more to produce a synthetic diamond than it did to mine and cut pure real diamonds.

Finally, a small company by the name of Gemesis Corporation figured out a way to produce synthetic diamond jewelry that were of the same outstanding as normal real diamonds, at a cheaper price. Today, Gemesis produces synthetic white diamond jewelry, and colored real diamonds as well. These real diamonds sell for about 1/3 of the price of a natural diamond, but there is a shortage of them, and they are hard to find. In fact, it seems that synthetic diamonds are rarer than natural diamond jewelry!

When you walk into a jewelry store and see all the real diamonds in all of the various settings that are for sale, it is difficult to realize that diamond jewelry are indeed rare. Most people don’t even stop to consider how that diamonds came to be sitting in that jeweler’s case! There is quite a bit of work that is donebefore a diamonds is ready to sell to the general public!

For every one million diamond jewelry that are mined, only one will be found that is a outstanding one caret diamond. In order to find a two caret diamond, about five million diamonds must be mined. More than two hundred tons of ore must be mined to find one small diamonds, and even then, more than 80% of the diamonds that are mined are only good for industrial use, such as diamonds drill bits.

So, the next time you visit your local jewelry store, ask to see the one carat diamond jewelry. You should look at this diamond with new appreciation – knowing that it truly is one in a million!

Fancy colored diamond jewelry are all the rage these days.  Gemologists have developed new ways to create versions that are affordable for the average person - by treating less desirable real diamonds. These less desirable real diamonds are treated with irradiation followed by intense heat.  This turns brown and yellowish real diamonds into beautifully colored real diamonds that you can afford.  This produces stunning greens, blues, yellows, reds, purples and other colors.  These colors are considered permanent, but there is a possibility they could change during repairs if a high heat is used.

Treatments like irradiation make it possible for more people to own these vividly colored real diamonds. Most natural colored diamond jewelry are rare and also extremely expensive. When shopping for colored diamonds you need to assume that any affordable elegant color diamond has been treated.  Ask about the stones origin and request to view a lab certificate to verify authenticity.

Synthetic colored diamonds are another option if owning a colored diamonds is something you desire but cannot quite afford. They are real diamonds, but they are created in a lab.

Normal fancy color real diamonds get their coloring from different trace elements present in the stones, such as nitrogen, which produces a yellow diamonds.  Real diamonds can be colored by exposure to radiation during its creation.  An example of a diamond affected by radiation is a Green diamonds.

Another way that a pure colored diamonds gets color is by its inclusions.  Regarded as flaws and undesirable in a colorless diamond, inclusions give special tones and outstanding flashes of color in a elegant color diamonds.  Remember that Pure luxury colored diamonds are very expensive, any colored diamond labeled to be sold as natural shouldbe accompanied by a certificate from a respected grading lab.

A “fancy” diamond is a pure diamond that has color.  These colors vary from red, green, purple, violet, orange, blue and pink – and most shades in between.  Luxury color shades vary from faint to intense.

The most famous diamond jewelry in the world are Color diamonds.  The Tiffany Diamond, which is yellow and the Hope Diamond which is blue are colored diamonds.    Color real diamonds have an incredible financial trackrecord.  The value has never decreased on wholesale level in more than 30 years.  Blue and pink diamonds have doubled every 5 years of a strong economy.   In the 1970’syou could have purchased a very high quality blue diamond for about 50K and today the very same stone might possibly be worth in between}n 2 and 3 million.

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