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 shouldbe 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
trackrecord. 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.