Wednesday, August 10, 2016

How to Care for Your Diamond

Caring for a diamond takes more than incidental cleanings. Precious stones are forever, be that as it may, they can be harmed on the off chance that you are most certainly not watchful. By figuring out how to appropriately nurture your diamond, you will guarantee that your diamond is in fact until the end of time.

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To begin with, you ought to take your precious stone gems to a diamond setter once per year. Have him check the mountings and prongs that hold your diamond set up. Have him make any required repairs. This will keep your precious stone from dropping out of its setting and getting to be lost.

Precious stone adornments that is not being worn, or diamonds that are free ought to be put away in a fabric lined gem case, or in an adornments box where it can be kept separate from other adornments. Every piece ought to have its own compartment. This will keep precious stones from getting to be scratched, and it will likewise keep your diamond from scratching other adornments also.

Expel your precious stone gems while doing physical work. Precious stones can be chipped what's more, scratched effectively. Likewise abstain from permitting your precious stone to come into contact with fade or other family unit chemicals – this can harm or change the shade of the settings and mountings, and it might even irreversibly change the shade of the
diamond!

Sunday, July 24, 2016

How Diamonds Are Mined

We from time to time consider how the diamonds we wear came to us. Common diamonds, as contradicted to manufactured diamonds or fake diamonds, are mined from the earth. There are as of now two techniques for mining diamonds: Pipe Mining and Alluvial Mining.

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At the point when pipe mining is utilized, the diamonds are separated from the earth through volcanic pipe/funnels. These are not man-made pipes. These are normal funnels in the ground. Shanks are put into the ground by the funnels, and passages are crashed into the most profound parts of the pipe. The diamonds are not sorted out at the mine. Rather, immense rocks that are brimming with diamonds are brought out of the mine and moved to a screening plant for partition.

Alluvial mining diagram. Photo from google. Credits to the original owner
The Alluvial mining strategy is done in riverbeds and on shorelines. Dividers are worked to keep down the water and the sand on the bank on the other hand shoreline is moved with a bulldozer until the level of earth that diamonds can be found in is come to. Once more, the precious stones are definitely not sorted here. Rather, the sand that contains the diamonds is bulldozed into trucks, and taken to screening plants.

Monday, July 18, 2016

Selecting a Diamond

Diamonds are reviewed for confirmation by research facilities utilizing reviewing criteria. Four of these criteria are basic to comprehend when making a diamond purchase or venture.

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Known as the "Four C's" these criteria are: color, cut, clarity and carat. 

Color is the aftereffect of the creation of a diamond and it doesn't change. Whenever a gem specialist is portraying the shade of a precious stone they are alluding to the nearness or nonattendance of color in white diamonds. Since a diamond with no shading permits most extreme light to go through, dry precious stones are favored for their radiance.

Cut alludes to a jewels intelligent quality. Most jewels are cut with 58 features. The splendor of diamonds is vigorously reliant on the cut. The diverse edges and the completion of a precious stone decide its capacity to reflect light and cause its brightness and flame. Keep in mind that the cut of a precious stone can affect its sturdiness and in addition its excellence. Some cutting shortcomings can make a jewel inclined to breakage. A precious stone that is cut too thin can likewise make light spill out of the back and the diamond will lose a portion of the radiance and show up not to sparkle. Thus, as should be obvious the Cut is likely the most essential of the Four C's.

Amid the development procedure, internal imperfections, or considerations happen in many precious stones. The number and size of these considerations figure out what is alluded to as the clarity of a diamond. Precious stones that are clear make more splendor and in this manner are rarer furthermore, profoundly evaluated. To be considered "flawless", a precious stone must have no surface on the other hand inner blemishes noticeable after being seen by a gifted precious stone grader utilizing 10 power amplifications.

Carat is the unit of weight by which diamonds are measured. One carat is equivalent to 200 milligrams. A carat is partitioned into 100 portions called focuses. 150 focuses would rise to one and a half carats.

When you go to the store to make that all imperative diamond purchase, don't be modest! Make inquiries, get the answers expected to make an educated buy. Looking for ensured jewels empowers you to make an educated choice. Knowing the "four C's" permits you to correlation shop and buy the best precious stone at a reasonable cost. Yet, some time recently making a buy, search around and choose what shapes and styles truly speak to you.

Make the most of your diamond for quite a long time to come!

Monday, July 11, 2016

World Most Famous Diamonds

Among the most well known diamonds is the Hope. This 45.52 carat steel blue precious stone is as of now in plain view at the Smithsonian. The legends of the evil fortune and condemnation gave on the holder of the Hope Diamonds are numerous. This precious stone was given to the Smithsonian in 1958. The Hope was initially a fairly level, blocky 110-carat unpleasant.

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The Dresden Green emerges among the regular colored diamonds. It is the biggest green precious stone on the planet weighing 40.70 carats. This precious stone is memorable, vast what's more, has a characteristic green shading with a slight blue hint. These certainties make it for all intents and purposes extremely valuable.

The Conde Pink is a pear molded and weighs 9.01-carats. This pink diamond was once claimed by Louis XIII.

The Tiffany Yellow diamond is an excellent canary-yellow octahedron weighing 287.42 in the harsh (metric) carats found in either 1877 or 1878 in South Africa. The diamond in the wake of cutting gloats the remarkable weight of 128.54 carats. Also, up to this point, was the biggest brilliant yellow on the planet.

The Koh-I-Noor ( Mountain of Light ) is currently among the British Crown Jewels. This diamond weighs 105.60 carats. To start with said in 1304, it is accepted to have been once set in Shah Jehan's celebrated peacock throne as one of the peacocks eyes.

The Agra is reviewed as a normally hued Favor Light Pink and weighs 32.34 carats. It was sold for around 6.9 million in 1990. Since this deal, it has been altered to a pad shape weighing around 28.15 carats.

The Transvaal Blue is pear cut. This blue precious stone measures 25 carats. It was found in the Premier Diamond Mine in Transvaal, South Africa.

The Great Chrysanthemum was found in the late spring of 1963, in a South African precious stone field. This 198.28-carat extravagant chestnut diamond gave off an impression of being a light nectar shading in its harsh state. In any case, in the wake of cutting, it ended up being a rich brilliant cocoa, with hints of sienna and blazed orange.

The Taylor-Burton Diamond is a pear-formed 69.42 carat precious stone. Cartier of New York obtained this precious stone at a sale in 1969 and dedicated it "Cartier." The following day Richard Burton purchased the diamond for Elizabeth Taylor. He renamed it the "Taylor-Burton". In 1978, Elizabeth Taylor put the jewel available to be purchased. Imminent purchasers needed to pay $2,500 each to see the jewel to take care of the expenses of demonstrating it. At last, in June of 1979, the diamond was sold for about $3 million dollars.

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

How to Spot a Fake Diamond

In this universe of cutting edge innovation it is verging on difficult to just take a gander at a diamond and figure out if it is genuine or not – particularly in the event that you don't know much about diamonds. There are a few stages that you can take to abstain from purchasing a fake diamond, be that as it may.

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In the first place, just manage legitimate jewelers, and when you locate a trustworthy goldsmith, stay with them. Abstain from purchasing diamond or other adornments from diamond setters that you have never managed before previously. Request that see the endorsement for the stone. In the event that no endorsement exists, leave.

Take a gander at the setting that the stone is in. Fake diamonds, for example, zirconias, are generally set in low quality metals. Investigate the stone. Fake diamonds are not solid – natural diamonds, then again, are the most tough stone on the planet. Search for scratches or scratches.

In the wake of acquiring a diamond, take it to another goldsmith for evaluation. Truth be told, take it to a few different gem specialists for an evaluation to ensure that the examinations are all decently close. In the event that you find that you have acquired a fake diamond, you might be blamed for doing a switch when you come back to the store of your buy; consequently, it is imperative to have an endorsement for the diamond. No two stones are indistinguishable.

How Diamond Prices Are Determined

Evaluating most items is very simple. Decide the amount it expenses to make the thing, the amount it expenses to market that thing, and after that imprint it up by 15 – 30% or more. Basic, isn't that so? All things considered, estimating precious stones isn't entirely that basic. There are numerous components that are considered when diamonds are valued.

Diamonds costs are resolved first by including the expense of the rough diamond, the expense of cutting the precious stone, and all other costs important to turn the rough diamond into a marketable one. Contingent upon the significance of the precious stone, an autonomous organization might be brought into guarantee the evaluation of the diamond taking into account shading, cut, clarity, and weight.

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Now, the diamond turns out to be more costly every time it changes hands, until it at last achieves a retailer, where the cost is raised more. Before coming to the retailer, be that as it may, the diamond must travel from the mine, to the cutter and polisher, to the autonomous reviewing organization, and at that point to the Primary business sector. When it has achieved the essential business sector, it will be obtained by diamond merchants and wholesalers, and from that point it will be sold to retailers.

As should be obvious, the prior you can buy a diamond all the while, the lower the expense of the precious stone will be – yet not the worth. The worth depends on what the diamonds will offer for in the commercial center – through a retailer. On the off chance that you possess a precious stone, and you have no clue the amount it is worth, you can have it assessed, yet the examination may not be precise. You will be in an ideal situation getting a testament through GIA – Gemological Institute of America. With the data on this testament, you can utilize a cutter's manual for precisely figure out what your precious stone is worth.

There are additionally numerous diamond cost adding machines accessible. These can be found on the Internet, and numerous precious stone merchants utilize these also. You should acknowledge, be that as it may, that before you can precisely value a diamond, without a Diamond Grade Report, you have to know a lot about precious stones, for example, distinctive cuts, clarity, shading, and weight – and how each of those viewpoints adds to the estimation of a jewel, or declines the estimation of the diamond all things considered.

Once more, you will be in an ideal situation in the event that you get a Diamond Grading Report on the precious stone, furthermore, utilize that data to turn upward the cost in one of the aides that the diamond cutting industry employments. This will give you the most exact estimation of the precious stone in your ownership, or of the jewel you are considering acquiring.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

How to Clean your Diamonds

Through our day to day movements our diamonds get smeared and ruined. Indeed when we are not wearing them, they gather dust. Moisturizers, cleansers, our common skin oils, can bring about film and grime on precious stones also, restrain their brightness.

Need to keep that Brilliance and Shine? Diamonds require cleaning so that greatest measures of light can refract blazing splendor. Keep in mind that all it takes is a couple of minutes also, a little care to keep that jewel as red hot as the day you first saw it.

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You can utilize a little delicate brush, for example, an eyebrow or lip stick brush and cleanser and water to clean your gems. Just make a dish of warm sudsy water with a gentle cleanser and spot your pieces in the blend. At that point brush the jewels with the delicate swarms of the brush while they are in the suds. You should verify that you flush them clear of the suds after cleaning them. You can utilize a little kitchen strainer, for example, a tea strainer to contain them while flushing under warm water. Use a build up free material, or an adornments shine fabric to pat them dry.

On the off chance that your precious stones need a more grounded purging, you might need to drench them for 30 minutes in an answer of creamer water and smelling salts. When they have drenched for 30 minutes, evacuate them and delicately brush the mountings with a little brush. At that point supplant the pieces to the arrangement and wash them around in the blend before evacuating them to flush and pat dry.

On the off chance that you observe your self excessively caught up with, making it impossible to blend cleansers and ammonia's, numerous office stores offer fluid gems cleaners. Generally are units, with all that you require included. You need to peruse the names to decide the one that is a good fit for your jewels and other gems. Perused the complete headings and tail every one of the safety measures. What's more, on the off chance that you get yourself increasingly the "cutting edge sort", even in your diamond cleaning schedule, there are numerous ultrasonic chemicals available. These machines utilize high-recurrence to make a cleaning movement.

All machines are not the same, so please read the directions before utilizing. No one but you can pick the cleaning strategy a good fit for you. Be that as it may, it is vital to keep your gems clean to keep it splendid and shining. Between cleaning, make an effort not to touch your perfect diamonds with your fingers or handle your gems by its edges. This will maintain its sparkle and brightness for longer periods.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Diamond Certificates

With a diamond certificate, you can confirm the shading, cut, carat, weight, and clarity of the diamond. You don't need to stress over a jewel merchant letting you know anything not exactly reality, on the grounds that the testament comes from the GIA – not the merchant. You might be required to pay for the authentication, yet the expense is generally low, and much of the time, it will help you arrange a superior cost on the diamond – or keep you from acquiring a lower quality diamond altogether.

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On the off chance that you purchase a top notch precious stone, and afterward later choose to offer the diamond, you will need the endorsement, or you will have a hard time offering it to another person. Moreover, you can utilize the Diamond Reviewing Report to turn upward the wholesale estimation of the precious stone being referred to. Utilize the guide that is utilized by the precious stone cutting industry.

With the Certificate, or Diamond Grading Report, there won't be any questions when you are attempting to buy a jewel. You can effectively discover what the precious stone is worth. This will keep you from overpaying, and it can keep a vender from under-charging as well.

A duplicate of the Diamond Grading Report should be given to your insurance agency too, when you protect the diamond. This gives supreme, certain evidence of the estimation of the precious stone if it be stolen later on. Insurance agencies can't contend with the report.

Stay away from precious stone merchants who appear to be hesitant to give a testament! Likewise keep away from merchants who let you know that an endorsement precious stone will taken a toll you more – the main extra cost should be the expense of the testament, which is low. On the off chance that the merchant wouldn't like to give a declaration, then you would prefer not to do business with that merchant.

Try not to acknowledge testaments from Gemological Research facilities other than GIA. There are numerous here now gone again later Gemological labs nowadays, yet at last, GIA has been built up as the most respectable and dependable – not to notice most established – of the parcel. So dodge merchants who would prefer not to utilize GIA for affirmation purposes also.

Try not to purchase a costly diamond without paying the additional expense of the endorsement. On the off chance that a merchant tries to persuade you to make the buy without the endorsement, or in the event that they need to utilize an organization other than GIA, you can make certain that the merchant has likely incredibly expanded the cost of the diamond – they have something that they are covering up from you.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

How Diamonds Are Cut

In their most normal structure, diamonds are – well – entirely terrible. They have no radiance or sparkle, what's more, truth be told, look like simply broken glass. A precious stone must be cut, and at that point cleaned before it really turns into a wondrous thing.

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Diamonds are cut with saws, into round shapes. From the adjusted shape, other shapes might be cut, for example, heart shapes – however the shape is less imperative than the nature of the cutting that is being finished. On the off chance that the precious stone is ineffectively cut, it will lose light, furthermore, it won't shimmer and sparkle extremely well.

Every aspect of the precious stone must be precisely cut into the geometrical shapes that permit the jewel to shimmer and sparkle, then the whole jewel is cut into a particular shape, for example, an emerald cut then again a princess cut precious stone.

Once the cut is done, the diamond is put into a dop, which looks like a container with another jewel – just a precious stone is sufficiently solid to smooth the edges of another precious stone. Once the precious stone has been cut and formed, what's more, had the edges smoothed in the dop, it is cleaned on a scaif or a precious stone cleaning wheel.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Colored Diamonds

Fancy colored diamonds are extremely popular nowadays. Gemologists have created better approaches to make forms that are moderate for the normal individual - by treating less attractive diamonds. These less attractive diamonds are treated with light took after by serious warmth. This transforms cocoa and yellowish jewels into flawlessly hued precious stones that you can bear. This produces staggering greens, soul, yellows, reds, purples and other colors. These colors are considered lasting, yet there is a probability they could change amid repairs if a high warmth is utilized.

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Medications like illumination make it conceivable for more individuals to claim these distinctively colored diamonds. Most common colored diamonds are uncommon furthermore to a great degree costly. At the point when looking for hued precious stones you have to expect that any reasonable extravagant shading diamonds has been dealt with. Get some information about the stones starting point and demand to see a lab endorsement to confirm realness. Manufactured shaded precious stones are another choice if owning a shaded precious stone is something you fancy yet can't exactly manage. They are genuine jewels, yet they are made in a lab.

Synthetic colored diamonds get their shading from various follow components present in the stones, for example, nitrogen, which produces a yellow diamonds. Precious stones can be shaded by introduction to radiation amid its creation. A case of a precious stone influenced by radiation is a Green precious stone.

Another way that a characteristic colored diamonds gets shading is by its considerations. Viewed as defects and undesirable in a drab precious stone, considerations give one of a kind tones and splendid flashes of shading in an extravagant shading jewel. Keep in mind that Natural extravagant colored diamonds are exceptionally costly, any hued precious stone named to be sold as regular ought to be joined by a testament from a regarded reviewing lab.

A "fancy" diamond is a characteristic jewel that has shading. These hues fluctuate from red, green, purple, violet, orange, blue and pink – and most shades between. Extravagant shading shades change from weak to extreme.

The most popular diamonds on the planet are color diamonds. The Tiffany Diamond, which is yellow and the Hope Diamond which is blue are colored diamond. Color diamonds have a stunning budgetary track record. The quality has never diminished on wholesale level in over 30 years. Blue furthermore, pink diamonds have multiplied each 5 a long time of a solid economy. In the 1970's you could have purchased a high caliber blue diamonds for around 50K and today the extremely same stone would be worth between 2 and 3 million.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Choosing The Cut of A Diamond

There are a wide range of cuts of diamonds to choose from. The slice basically alludes to the shape that the precious stone is cut into – unless you are in the diamonds or jewelry business, yet this shape has an incredible effect on the much the jewel shimmers.

The most prominent cuts are heart, marquise, oval, pear, princess, cycle, trillion, and emerald cuts. The shape affects how much the diamond shimmers, however the genuine cutting itself – when the precious stone cutter really cuts the diamond into a specific shape – additionally matters an awesome bargain. In the event that the jewel is ineffectively cut, it will lose its radiance.

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In any case, in the diamond industry, the cut of a precious stone doesn't allude to its shape by any stretch of the imagination. Rather, this is a reference to the stone's profundity, width, brightness, solidness, clarity, and different parts of the precious stone. Basic cutting issues incorporate an absent or off focus culet, misalignment, a precious stone that is too thick or too thin, breaks, or broken culets.

At the point when looking for a diamond, you ought to obviously pick the shape that you like the best, however then take a gander at a few diverse precious stones of that shape to locate the one with the best cut – the one that shimmers the most, in a wide range of lighting.

Bonded Diamonds

Before you begin looking for precious stones, consider dealing with a bonded jeweler. Bonded gem dealers offer fortified precious stones, also, there are not very many bonded diamond setters in the world. Actually, out of the greater part of the gem dealer's on the planet, just around 5% of them are bonded. Purchasing a reinforced precious stone will fetched more than purchasing a non-reinforced diamond, however when you take a gander at what you get with the reinforced alternative, you will see that it is definitely justified even despite the additional cost.


Initially, bonded diamonds have a purchase back strategy for the life of the precious stone. Regardless to what extent you have had the precious stone, you can take it back to the fortified goldsmith and offer it back to him or her, for a 100% discount. On the off chance that a diamond setter does not offer a 100% purchase back ensure, for the life of the precious stone, then you ought to investigate the precious stone to see what isn't right with it.

Bonded diamonds additionally have a breakage arrangement. On the off chance that the stone breaks or chips, the bonded gem specialist will supplant it with another one – one time. No gem specialist could ever offer such a strategy on any stone that was not 100% common, so simply the offer of such a strategy should give you bit of brain concerning the nature of the precious stone. Bonded diamonds are normal and untreated.

Bonded diamonds increment in worth, with a altered gratefulness rate that is intended to stay aware of swelling. This implies a precious stone that is justified regardless of a specific measure of cash today will be worth more later on, as the cost of precious stones keeps on rising. This by and large does not make a difference to purchase backs, in any case. It normally applies to exchange ins. On the other hand, by buying a bonded diamonds, you are secured against the probability of a business sector crash. In the event that a business sector crash happens, the estimation of jewels will drop. In any case, the bonded gem specialist insurances to discount you the distinction between what the diamond is currently worth furthermore, what you paid for it before the business sector crash.

It might be hard to discover a fortified gem dealer in your territory, however in the event that you would, this be able to is who you need to manage, instead of managing with an un-fortified gem dealer. Particularly tell the gem dealer that you are just inspired by bonded diamonds. You can discover a bonded gem specialist in your general vicinity by utilizing different online assets, or by calling the neighborhood gems stores.

Are Diamonds Really Rare?

When you stroll into an adornments store and see every one of the diamonds in the greater part of the different settings that are available to be purchased, it is hard to understand that diamonds are without a doubt uncommon. The vast majority try not to try and stop to consider how that precious stone came to sit in that diamond setter's case! There is a lot of work that is finished prior to a diamond is prepared to offer to the overall population!


For each one million precious stones that are mined, stand out will be found that is a quality one caret diamond. So as to locate a two caret precious stone, around five million jewels must be mined. More than two hundred tons of metal must be mined to discover one little precious stone, and, after its all said and done, more than 80% of the precious stones that are mined are as it were useful for mechanical use, for example, precious stone boring apparatus. 

In this way, whenever you visit your nearby gems store, request that see the one carat jewels. You ought to take a gander at this jewel with new gratefulness – realizing that it genuinely is one in a million!

Monday, May 30, 2016

About Diamond Weights

Diamonds are measured in Carat Weight. One carat weighs 200 milligrams. On the off chance that a precious stone is alluded to as four grains, this likewise implies that it is a one carat precious stone. The word Carat originates from the word carob. A carob is a bean that develops on a tree in the Mediterranean. In times past, if a precious stone measured the same as a carob bean, it was one carob, or one carat.

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In any case, in the far east, where Carob trees try not to develop, rice was utilized to quantify the weight of a precious stone. In the event that a precious stone weighed as much as four grains of rice, it was four grains – or one carat as we probably am aware it to be presently. The dominant part of precious stone buys are for precious stones that are 1/3 of a carat.

Be careful when looking for precious stones that are now set or mounted. On the off chance that more than one diamond is utilized as a part of the piece, the tag on the adornments will give the CTW or Carat Total Weight – it doesn't let you know the carat weight of every stone in the piece. You have to inquire the diamond setter for the aggregate carat weight of the biggest precious stone in the piece to really comprehend what you are purchasing.

About Diamonds Clarity

Clarity is an imperative part of a diamond, what's more, it is vital to know how to review the clarity of a diamond before you purchase one. It is quite simple to figure out how to review the clarity of a diamond. There are fundamentally two things that you should comprehend: Diamonds with visual incorporation's and imperfections, and those that are 'eye clean' implying that there are no incorporation or flaws that can be seen with the bare eye. From that point, the clarity of a jewel is further separated into subcategories.

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Numerous individuals erroneously imagine that precious stone clarity alludes to how clear it is. This isn't so. Clarity really alludes to the interior and outer flaws of the precious stone. The best diamonds, obviously get an evaluation of FL then again IF – Flawless or Internally Flawless – implying that it is great. An evaluation of I-1, I-2 then again I-3 implies that the precious stone is defective, with an evaluation of I-3 being the most exceedingly terrible.

Different evaluations are VVS1 and VVS2, which implies that the precious stone is, marginally flawed; VS1 and VS2, which means the precious stone is marginally blemished; SI-1 and SI-2, which implies that the precious stone is marginally blemished.