Articles about Created Diamonds
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When lab-created diamonds, which have been in the works since the
1950s, appeared ready to make their debut in the market a few years
ago, panic ensued. One of the most commonly voiced objections centered
around whether or not these diamonds would complicate an already
often-confusing shopping process for the diamond-buying public.
Now, as these stones start to circulate in the market and are set
in jewelry right alongside naturally mined diamonds, at least to
some, the potential for consumer confusion appears to have increased
exponentially.
Mixed Diamonds, Mixed Opinions
by Sayre Priddy, Rapaport
After years of research in a former Russian space lab where the
HPHT (high pressure high temperature) diamonds method for producing
synthetic gem-quality diamonds was originally developed and applied,
New Age Diamonds is ready to enter the market with a new company
strategy that includes lab-cultured gem quality diamonds which it
claims are totally identical to natural ones. It continues its experiments
for the purpose of obtaining gem-quality cultured diamonds, as well
as diamonds for technical needs in the field of microelectronics,
and innovation of technology.
Synthetic Diamonds
No Longer a Dream by Tacy.Ltd
The mass media has recently been filled with reports on various synthetic diamonds and their rate of detectability. The Gemological Institute of America’s (GIA) experts have written the following article to clarify some of the controversy surrounding these gem-quality synthetics.
Synthetic Diamonds by GIA, Rapaport
Ladies and gentlemen, this interview may have been more challenging if it had been about High Pressure-High/Temperature (HPHT) treatment. While we at GIA can identify the vast majority of HPHT treated diamonds, the public’s confidence could be severely shaken by the prospect of taking otherwise inexpensive brown rough and transforming it into colorless or fancy colored diamonds.
Technology: Friend or Foe by GIA
Aron Weingarten brings the yellow diamond up to the stainless steel jeweler's loupe he holds against his eye. We are in Antwerp, Belgium, in Weingarten's marbled and gilded living room on the edge of the city's gem district, the center of the diamond universe. Nearly 80 percent of the world's rough and polished diamonds move through the hands of Belgian gem traders like Weingarten, a dealer who wears the thick beard and black suit of the Hasidim. "This is very rare stone," he says....
New Diamond Age by Wired
At least two tiny companies are producing real diamonds in a lab, for pennies on the dollar. What they're doing amounts to the beginning of the end of DeBeers' monopoly on diamonds. And it's likely the end of exorbitant prices on diamonds - forever.
Sell Your Diamonds by Investment U
Are laboratory-grown diamonds a threat to the integrity of the diamond industry? Should jewelers support the development of a market for these diamonds? Is it fair to describe these stones as cultured diamonds? What are these stones?
Cultured Diamonds by Rapaport
Retired Brigadier General Carter Clarke, 77, founded The Gemesis Corporation in 1995. The company, based in Sarasota, Florida, is the first to commercially produce gem-quality synthetic diamonds grown using the High Pressure- High Temperature (HPHT) process. Martin Rapaport interviewed Clarke to get an insider view on this new facet of our industry.
Diamond is a Diamond? by Martin Rapaport
Colored diamonds are among the rarest gems in the world, commanding thousands of dollars per carat and coveted by high-end jewelry boutiques and serious collectors. Now two small companies propose to change the orderly hierarchies of the diamond business by manufacturing colored diamonds in laboratories -- simulating a process that normally takes millions of years and challenging the notion that a diamond is a rare and ancient prize.
Cultured gems challenge by Lauren Weber, Reuters
The colored diamond market is beset by treatments and synthetics. People aren’t worried, but some think they should be. For a low-key business, the colored diamond market has seen a lot of action lately—though not necessarily the kind of action it would wish.
Color Bind by Rob Bates, JCK
Diamond was discovered to be carbon in 1796, and it took more than 150 years from that time until a method of diamond synthesis was invented. The secret was pursued by many scientists but not unlocked until the 1950s, when diamond was synthesized almost simultaneously by Swedish and American researchers. Pressures of over 55,000 atmospheres and 1400C, plus molten iron to facilitate the change from graphite to diamond, were necessary. Now some 80 tons of synthetic diamonds are produced annually by General Electric, De Beers, and many others for industrial firms.
Growing Diamonds by AMNH
Created diamonds aren't new. Gem quality diamonds have been synthesized in the lab for some time and are showing up in many sales catalogs. But a company called LifeGem (TM) has come up with a unique twist on diamond creation. They create gemstones from carbon that's captured during the cremation of human remains. It's not a process that will appeal to everyone, but the company is finding that an increasing number of people opt in to the program in order to leave family members a lasting memento, one that's beautiful and one they can wear all the time.
Diamonds from Ashes by Carly Wickell, About
Since the end of 1999, SSEF has yet another state-of-the-art instrument for diamond identification. De Beers gave us a Diamond View™ instrument as long-term loan. The Diamond View™, together with the DiamondSure™, was developed at De Beers DTC Research Centre, Maidenhead, to distinguish synthetic diamonds from natural diamonds.
De Beers Diamond View by SSEF
As buyers, we spend a lot of time evaluating a diamond's lack of color. It's a desirable trait that drives demand–and diamond prices–upwards. But on the other end of the spectrum is another group of diamonds, ones we want to be colorful. These fancy color diamonds exist in a rainbow of vivid hues–yellows, reds, pinks, blues, greens, purples, and shades in-between.
Fancy Color Diamonds by Carly Wickell, About.com
Conventional thinking about diamonds may soon be changing. Diamonds — long prized for their beauty, rarity and long generation times — are now being created in a matter of hours in laboratories. What that change will do to the diamond gem industry or to the market value of natural diamonds is still in question. But what the lab-created diamonds could do for technology has the science community buzzing.
Next Best Friend: Cultured Diamonds by Megan Sever, Geotimes
What word bonds all the following adjectives? Treated, Substitute, Synthetic, Simulant, Enhanced. Give Up? ... Diamonds. But what really is a treated diamond, a man-made diamond or a diamond simulant and just how easy can they be detected? A diamantaire's greatest nightmare is unwittingly buying a diamond simulant....
Diamond Substitutes by Jewelry.com
In part 2 of our series on Diamond Substitutes and the fears consumers have over being "hoodwinked" on their gem purchases, Jewelry.com continues to inform our members regarding diamond treatments and enhancements. Our report identifies some of the treatments, points up industry and consumer concerns and tells of the measures being taken in the industry to detect, track and register all such enhancements and maintain strict control of them in the marketplace.
Treated Diamonds by Jewelry.com
Since Wired magazine released its September 2003 cover story on “The New Diamond Age,” synthetic diamond has been a “hot” topic for gem and jewelry professionals. The public’s interest has also been piqued, as evidenced by the vast number of media inquiries we have received.
GIA Policies on Synthetic by GIA
Lab-made diamonds are as dazzling as those mined by third-world labor. This bling may be easier on your conscience -- and your wallet. Yes, diamonds are forever. But even the most expensive, sparkling ad campaign has never been able to put a sheen on one of the guiltiest of our guilty pleasures. The legacy from this most dazzling of earth's creations is a dark one indeed.
Nice Ice by Corrie Pikul, Salon
Shopping for gemstones and gemstone jewelry can be confusing. Prices are sometimes very different for jewelry that appears to be very similar. Some of the statements in ads are confusing, too, because gemstones are called natural, genuine, synthetic, simulated, treated — or a combination of those terms. It's important for any shopper to understand gemstone terms before buying any type of gemstone jewelry.
Natural & Synthetic Gemstone by Carly Wickell, About.com
Lab Created and Lab Grown and Synthetic are synonymous terms. To use any of these terms, according to the FTC, the gemstone must be identical to the natural in every way. Composition, Hardness, and Optically. There are a lot of sellers on the internet, who try and denote a difference in these terms, but according to the FTC they are identical terms. The Federal Trade Commission is very clear on the use of the term Lab or Laboratory Created.
An Attempt To Clarify by Gem Country
Historically gem possession has been reserved for wealthy, royalty, or high religious leaders. It has always been human nature to want what others possess, so imitation gems have been common for some 4,500 years, in the form of glass, plastic, composites, and treated gems. It is not against the law to imitate, as long as the true identification is given. It is only fraud when imitations, natural or synthetic, are passed off as a more valuable gem at an inflated price.
Gem Creation and Enhancement by Emporia
A synthetic gemstone will be just like its natural gemstone counterpart in virtually every way. This includes the same basic crystal structure, chemical composition, colors, and other characteristics. Many times the synthetic will fool even good gemologists since many, if not all, gemological test results on a synthetic will be the same as its natural counterpart.
Synthetic, Imitation and Treated by Your Gemologist
Synthetic and simulant are terminology used by the USBM for laboratory grown gemstones. Others in the gemstones industry may use different terms to refer to laboratory grown gemstones. Laboratory grown synthetic gemstones have essentially the same appearance and optical, physical, and chemical properties as the natural material that they represent.
Synthetic and Simulant by USGS
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