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Scientists at De Beers Fight the Growing Threat of Man-Made Diamonds (wsj.com)
"In the past few years, lab-grown diamonds have become indistinguishable from natural diamonds to the naked eye..." reports the Wall Street Journal. This creates a problem for diamond-mining company De Beers. HughPickens.com writes:
While synthetics make up just a fraction of the market, they have growing appeal to younger buyers -- a headache for mine owners, who are under pressure to cut supply and lower prices, because traders, cutters and polishers are struggling to profit amid a credit squeeze and languishing jewelry sales... "Martin Roscheisen, chief executive of Diamond Foundry Inc., a San Francisco synthetic-diamond producer with a capacity of 24,000 carats, says he believes nearly all diamonds consumers purchase will be man-made in a few decades," reports the Journal. "To counter the threat, last year De Beers helped launch a trade association with other producers to market the attraction of natural diamonds. It also started marketing a new, cheap detector called PhosView, that uses ultraviolet light to detect lab-grown stones that quickly screens tiny synthetic diamonds.
It always seemed like a waste of money to me. After all, it's literally raining diamonds on Saturn.
It always seemed like a waste of money to me. After all, it's literally raining diamonds on Saturn.
They can measure that in massacarat.
' a headache for diamond mine owners, who are under pressure
If they were under enough pressure, they could turn coal into diamonds.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
I bought a cruelty-free diamond. Gave it to my now ex-wife and turns out it was full of cruelty.
She gets 90%. The government gets 40% or more in taxes. Where does that leave you?
Screwed. Isn't that the point of this arrangement?
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.