MemberI’d like to be properly educated as I now realize that colored diamonds are natural but in fact so rare that most people can not acquire one. So it got me thinking, what is the process that happens?
Member@als1214: what do you mean by process? In reference to natural colored diamonds it’s the varying heat and/or pressure that makes them change colors. The colored diamonds most often seen in stores are irradiated, or “zapped” as I like to say. They are made from the less-than-desirable quality white diamonds and spruced up to look more exotic. They are less expensive than white diamonds because without the color they’d look very cloudy.
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MemberIt is a heat process that is used.
MemberWell, coloured diamonds are formed the same way as white diamonds i.e. through extreme heat & pressure deep in the Earth’s crust which creates the characteristic diamond lattice structure. Colours in diamonds are mostly caused by interstitial impurities within the diamond lattice eg. nitrogen makes diamonds yellow, boron makes diamonds blue, but can also arise through other causes eg. exposure to radiation can turn them green.
Natural coloured diamonds are extremely expensive, far more pricey than colourless. It is possible to treat diamonds in a lab to give them colour, and these lab-coloured diamonds are much MUCH cheaper than natural coloured diamonds. Natural coloured diamonds aren’t so rare that no-one has them – I have a natural yellow diamond, but they are far less common than colourless and jewellers who trade in them and know how to cut and set them properly are few and far between.
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MemberA natural colorless diamond ( so various range of quality same as colorless ) is irradiated to various color , in my case Blue . my then bf took a Swavorski crystal in to guide the coloring / irradiation process. He purchased a flawless stone and says he was told 100 times before the jeweler did it “was he sure’ ‘value will be decreased…’ etc but hd knew that’s what I would love sinice I said blue topaz would be just fine for me!
MemberMemberMemberMemberYa know what I think I’m about done with the ring forum. I used to be ingnorant to all the hate that goes on until I came onto this section of the boards.
If you have under a 1 ct you are crapped on.
If you have a cluster you are looked down upon.
If you have a colored stone your ring is infeirior quality
If you have an heirloom sucks to be you cause your man couldn’t buy you something new and he is cheap.
You don’t have a dimaond well something is wrong with you.
Halo! Vs solitaire
Yellow gold is better, no white gold is; no why would you cheapskate buy white gold when you can get platinum.
What? you got a moissanite so obiviously you can’t afford real!
Yep, I used to be blissfilly ignorant to all this crap. Now, since I have been on the ring section I’ve actually started to hate my ring and I think its cause of all the negativity; which I dont get since the other sections like dress and DIY are perfectly nice.
MemberMemberMemberMemberI was looking a natural red diamonds yesterday, they cost almost $1 mil per carat if the clarity is VS. One I was looking at, .1 carat (that’s a Tenth of a carat) sold for $53,000 an hour after I viewed it. Sheesh!
Most of theinexpensive colored diamonds you see at chain stores and the like have been radiated to give them various colors. They take cloudy or included low grade, white diamonds (basically that could not be used as white diamonds in jewelry due to their issues) and radiate /dye them to get various colors.
LeVian seems to have really gotten on this bandwagon by heavily pushing “chocolate” and othertypes of diamonds that had been considered undesirable for jewelry or irradiating thosediamonds to achieve colors they then trademark the names of,
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