Colored Diamonds
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Fancy colored diamonds are all the rage these days. Gemmologists have developed
new ways to create versions that are affordable for the average. These
less desirable diamonds are treated with irradiation followed by intense heat. This
turns brown and yellowish diamonds into beautifully colour diamonds that you can
afford. This produces stunning greens, blues, yellows, reds, purples and other colors
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.
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 color 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.
These colors vary from red, green, purple, violet, orange, blue and pink. The famous diamonds are 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. 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.




