Colored Diamonds

Fancy colored diamonds 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 diamonds. These  less desirable diamonds are treated with  irradiation followed by intense heat.  This  turns brown and yellowish diamonds into  beautifully colored 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  diamonds. Most natural colored diamonds  are rare and also extremely expensive. When  shopping for colored diamonds you need to  assume that any affordable fancy 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 diamond is  something you desire but cannot quite afford.  They are real diamonds, but they are created  in a lab.

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

Another way that a natural colored diamond  gets color is by its inclusions.  Regarded as  flaws and undesirable in a colorless diamond,  inclusions give unique tones and brilliant  flashes of color in a fancy color diamond.   Remember that Natural fancy colored  diamonds are very expensive, any colored  diamond labeled to be sold as natural should be accompanied by a certificate from a  respected grading lab.

A "fancy" diamond is a natural diamond that  has color.  These colors vary from red, green,  purple, violet, orange, blue and pink – and  most shades between.  Fancy color shades  vary from faint to intense.

The most famous diamonds in the world are  Color diamonds.  The Tiffany Diamond,  which is yellow and the Hope Diamond which  is blue are colored diamonds.    Color  diamonds have an amazing financial track record.  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’s  you could have bought a very high quality  blue diamond for about 50K and today the  very same stone would be worth between  2 and 3 million.