Can you tell the difference between a lab grown diamond and a mined diamond?
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Anonymous
| If you put two diamonds side by side can you truly tell the difference? And if you can't then why does anybody buy mined diamonds that cost 10x lab grown diamonds and are ethically wrong to mine? |
Anonymous
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Only a microscope can tell the difference.
Some people want "mind clean" and don't consider lab diamonds as special if they don't come from the earth. Some people also like the flex of spending a ton of money on something. Just gives more lab diamonds for the rest of us! |
Anonymous
| A mined diamond retains some value once purchased (not much) while a lab one retains none. Not a good enough reason for me, but some people think this way. |
Anonymous
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Not with your eye.
I have no idea why someone wouldn’t get the lab grown one. |
Anonymous
| No |
Anonymous
Nobody is making money off of selling their old diamonds |
Anonymous
| Op - my DH read a recent New York Times article about this and asked if I cared one way or another. I don’t care at all. I have mined diamonds now but only because lab grown weren’t available when I got my jewelry. Now that it’s widely available I am all for it. |
Anonymous
| I have a rare flat antique diamond and I can tell the lab antique cuts. They look so off. I can’t tell with the other styles. |
Anonymous
You might be able to tell the new antique style cuts, but you cannot tell the diamond material itself. |
Anonymous
That’s what I mean |
Anonymous
| I mean if you have a four carat ring and you’re living an otherwise fairly modest life, yes, people that know you can usually tell. My secretary has a seven carat one and yeah. We know: who cares. She likes it. |
Anonymous
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No. From a physical and chemical standpoint, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE in their structure. Which is the entire point. Quality is entirely the same. It's provenance that's different, and the diamond industry has done such a good job on people that they're still buying diamonds from mines, instead of diamonds from labs, with a huge mark-up.
Please buy lab diamonds. They are exactly the same as mined, they are conflict-free and not extracted by slave labor, and they are much cheaper. Thank you. |
Anonymous
Oh gotcha. There is something special about real antique cuts for sure! |
Anonymous
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I thought there was a way you could tell internally with
the way lab diamonds are made- like the "seed" used was visible? Or am I making that up? |
Anonymous
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Op - I have thought about upgrading my ring but if I do I will definitely do lab grown.
My current ring I got when we were poor 25 year olds. I still love it. It’s 1.4 carats princess cut. Our HHI has quadrupled if not more and I would love a bigger 3 carat stone. |