D.NEA Creates Largest Lab-Grown Blue Diamonds
12/15/2009 10:39:09 AM SBG
Battle Creek, Michigan – D.NEA is a well-known producer of eco-friendly and completely conflict-free gemstone and diamond jewelry. Their diamonds are all lab-grown, using the same intense heat and pressure that turns carbon into diamonds, but the process takes far less time, has little ecological impact, and the results are far less expensive. Because the diamonds are synthesized in a controlled environment, there are none of the imperfections that natural diamonds can hold. The clarity of a lab-created diamond is always perfect. It has proven relatively easy to grow a colorless diamond, but giving them color has been more difficult. Previously, colored diamonds—blue in particular—were quite small. Now D.NEA has developed a process that has allowed them to create the world’s largest lab-grown blue diamonds.
As of December 9, five blue diamonds—all over 1 carat, have been made available for sale. Included is a gem-quality 1.24 carat intense blue round brilliant. Naturally-occurring blue diamonds are extremely rare and can cost over $1 million per carat. The most expensive of D.NEA’s blue diamonds is $10,800. According to the company’s President, Eric Franklin, “We have seen some remarkable and much larger blue diamonds in the past few months and currently have emerald, round, asscher, princess, and radiant cut blue diamonds all over one carat, with similar stones currently in production”.
This is good news not only for the eco-friendly, but for the frugal as well. Beautiful, well-cut diamonds can be very costly. These diamonds are inexpensive, despite having them shaped by some of the world’s best diamond-cutters in Antwerp, Belgium. Also, because of the environmental impact that the mining of gold and platinum can have, D.NEA can mount the diamond of your choice into the metal of your choice in an eco-friendly way. Because gold and platinum can be easily melted down and reshaped, old jewelry is made new again, and without any harmful effects on the planet.
Several companies are now in the synthetic diamond market, and interest increases with troubles in the global economy without any change in natural diamond pricing. Science is giving in just a few months what the earth can only do over millions of years. What’s keeping everyone from jumping on the lab-grown bandwagon? The romance of a gem that developed within the earth’s crust over millennia. Only a trained eye knows the difference…
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