Lightbox Lab-grown Loose Diamonds

Lightbox for the first time will sell loose diamonds in Lightbox's standard colors---white, pink, and blue---and its standard quality range (G-J, VS clarity, very good cut), as well as in its better finest range (D-F, VVS clarity, excellent cut). Finest diamonds sell for US$1500 a carat. Take note.

Useful link:

https://lightboxjewelry.com/pages/lab-grown-loose-diamonds

Lusix

Get to know Benny Landa. The company currently synthesizes diamonds at its sole operations center in Rehovot, Israel. It uses the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method, which bears some similarities to digital printing, the discipline for which Benny Landa is famous. The company has 76 reactors and produces rough diamonds with an average color of F-G, and an average clarity of VS. It sells the diamonds to the market in the rough form, marketing them as 'as grown'---meaning there was no post-synthesis color treatment. 

Useful link: https://lusix.com

Future Pricing Issues For Lab Grown Diamonds

Abe Sherman was spot on. The sad truth is nobody really knows what the value of a lab-grown diamond is, and the race to the bottom is inevitable. We shall wait and see. At the end of the day consumers will be the deciders.

Useful links:

https://news.centurionjewelry.com/sales-strategy/detail/how-do-you-square-this-circle

https://bigjewelers.com

LovBe

Get to know Margit Reinson, a low-cost lab-grown diamond seller based out of Estonia. 

Useful link: https://lovbe.com

How Lab-grown Diamonds Became Every Girl’s Best Friend

Consumers are the deciders. 

Useful link:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9682217/How-lab-grown-diamonds-girls-best-friend

GIA Sees Rise In Synthetics Fraud

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) is seeing a rise in submission of lab-grown diamonds with counterfeit inscriptions that make the diamonds appear natural. These diamonds have falsified girdle engravings that reference a genuine natural diamond report number, while most have almost identical measurements and weights to the natural diamonds they mimic. Consumers beware.

Useful link: https://www.gia.edu

IGI Labs Receives ISO Certificate For Grading Lab Grown Diamonds

The IGI labs have become the first in the world to be accredited by the ISO for the reliability of their lab-grown diamond grading. The ISO--International Organization for Standardization--has now tested its efficiency and accuracy in grading lab-grown diamonds and awarded the lab the ISO/IEC 17025 certification.

Useful link: https://www.igi.org

Are Lab-grown Diamonds A Threat To The Jewellery Supply Chain?

Not really. Roy Safit of Everledger has an interesting viewpoint. Must read.

Useful links: https://www.thediamondloupe.com/opinion-piece/2021-03-19/are-lab-grown-diamonds-threat-jewellery-supply-chain I https://www.everledger.io

Sherlock Holmes 3.0

Take a look at Sherlock Holmes 3.0, the new lab-grown diamond detector by Zvi Yehuda.

Useful link: http://www.yehuda.com

GIA Report On Lab-Grown Treatments

The Gemological Institute of America has started providing specific information on post-growth treatments for synthetic diamonds, marking the latest shift in its approach to the category. Take note.

Useful link: https://www.gia.edu

Clean Cool Cultured Collection

Get to know Laura Chavez.

Useful link: https://larkandberry.com

Fine Piercing Collection

Made with cultured (never-mined) diamonds and colored stones. Get to know Laura Chavez.

Useful link: https://larkandberry.com

Lab-Growns To Get Second-Tier Reports

Lab-grown diamonds should be sold with second-tier reports giving details of their manufacture, rather than 4C gradings according to CIBJO. The purpose is to preserve the distinction between manufactured diamonds and natural diamonds for which rarity is a critical factor. CIBJO has released a Laboratory Grown Diamond Guidance document, the final stage of a two-year process to standardize the lab-grown sector and boost consumer confidence. Lab-grown reports will include the name of the manufacturer, the production batch, country of origin, method of manufacture (HPHT or CVD), and information about any treatments and processes the diamond has undergone--all of which reinforce the message that the diamond was made, not mined. If the 4Cs are used to describe the physical characteristics of lab-grown diamonds, the letters 'LG' will be placed as a prefix before color and clarity. I hope it works.

Useful link: http://www.cibjo.org

World’s Largest Black Diamonds Project

The 115.65 carat, Type IIb diamond was produced by Meylor Global using High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) method, and was accompanied by a second black lab-grown diamond weighing 109.58 carats. Their next promising target is to produce 200 carats diamonds. I wish them good luck.

Useful link: http://meylorglobal.com

Radioactive Diamond Batteries

If it works, it will last thousands of years.

Useful link:
https://www.wired.com/story/are-radioactive-diamond-batteries-a-cure-for-nuclear-waste

GIA To Offer Full Grading On Lab-Grown Diamond Reports

GIA has evolved with the new consumer. It has been a peculiar evolution.

Useful links:
https://www.jckonline.com/editorial-article/gia-grading-lab-grown-diamonds
https://www.gia.edu/gem-lab-my-laboratory

AGS Lab To Resume Grading Lab-Grown Diamonds

American Gem Society's grading laboratory will again evaluate laboratory-grown diamonds, a service it began in 2012 and then stopped in 2013 due to a lack of business. For the moment, they will be available only in digital form on the lab's Only My Diamond platform.

Useful link:
https://www.americangemsociety.org

X Lab Diamonds

Avi Katz who launched the Cofix chain of no-nonsense coffee shops in Israel is now moving into lab-grown diamonds. I wish him good luck.

Useful link:
http://www.xlabdiamonds.co.il

Laboratory Grown Diamonds Information Guide To HPHT And CVD Grown Diamonds

Authors Dusan Simic and Branko Deljanin have revised existing content and added 50 pages since the last edition of Laboratory Grown Diamonds in 2007 in an easy-to-understand format.

Useful link:
https://www.brankogems.com/shop/books/laboratory-grown-diamonds-information-guide-to-hpht-and-cvd-grown-diamonds

Lab-Grown Diamonds May Develop Their Own Price Scale

Wait and watch with patience. Rarity vs. Technical product.

Useful links:
http://www.ultrac.ru
https://lightboxjewelry.com
https://www.theigda.org
https://www.jckonline.com/editorial-article/lab-grown-diamonds-price-scale