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Diamond Color: Determining the grade

April 27, 2006, 10:37 am

Diamond grades are how a diamond’s value is determined. Among the four ways of such, is by the color of a gem. The ensuing article entails exactly how:

Diamond color is one of the four grades used in determining the value of a diamond.  The stones will occur naturally in a range of colors, but the most common one are the pure colorless diamonds.

Colored diamonds have color because of structural defects that cause the stone to absorb all but one color of the rainbow or in the case of black diamonds all the colors are absorbed.  Because colored diamonds are rare and pretty they actually cost more than the clear diamonds, sometimes in excess of thousands of dollars for the same carat size.

Diamond colors are, colorless, white, yellow, steel, blue, orange, green, pink, brown, and black.

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    Does your diamond cut have maximum carat size and brilliance

    April 19, 2006, 12:21 pm

    An article that delves into the the world of diamond grading, where diamond cut refers to the quality of your jewelry.

    When one hears of diamond cut they usually think of the different kinds of diamond shapes they’ve seen in jewelry, the princess, the round and so on.  In the world of diamond grading diamond cut refers to something else.  It refers to how well a jeweler has cut the diamond to achieve maximum carat size and brilliance, or the millions of glittering sparkles you can see when you turn your diamond in the light. Poorly cut diamonds will often sell at a cheaper rate than the better cut.  Interestingly ninety five percent of diamonds aren’t cut for optimum brilliance. There are four factors involved in the diamond cut, proportion, finish, symmetry and polish.

    The proportions of the cut have to do with the table percentage compared to the depth percentage.  The table is the flat surface on the top of each kind of diamond cut, while the depth has to do with the width of the diamond from top to bottom.  A good table to depth ratio will allow all light entering the diamond to be reflected back through the surface.

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    Diamonds : Okay, you have to read this….

    February 7, 2006, 10:03 pm

    and not just because it’s about diamonds….

    Rafael Solano, his back bent, his shoulders crushed by an invisible weight, sat on a boulder in the dry river bed. He lifted his head up slowly. It weighed a ton. He spoke in a low voice, his words almost incomprehensible. He mumbled again to his two friends.

    “I quit.”

    They stopped gathering pebbles and looked at him. “I can’t go on. I don’t believe in it anymore.”

    The sweat glistened on his brow. The brilliant sun had parched his face to a network of fine blood vessels. Dark shadows outlined his eyes.

    He held up a pebble in his hand. “The next one will be a….” [continued]

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