Can you tell the difference between a lab grown diamond and a mined diamond?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"Can you imagine? Kathy's ring wasn't mined with slave labor! The scandal!"

Please. Most mined diamonds aren’t mined by slave labor anymore. Labs have all kinds of chemical and environmental issues and they’re made in china and India. Let’s not get too pompous.

I actually can tell a bit. I didn’t want a totally perfect stone it looks fake. I like a flaw and I like an old stone.

Oh, Nancy, you're so funny!

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Anonymous wrote:Lab and mined diamonds are exactly the same - pure carbon crystals. There is no machine, no loupe, no device that can tell them apart, because they are the same thing.

The loupe will allow you to "tell them apart" ... because lab diamonds are laser-inscribed as such.

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Anonymous wrote:So if diamonds are now no longer a signal of wealth, what’s a gauche wealthy woman to do? Become Gwen Stefani or Madonna in the face, apparently. Obvious work is the new diamond.

Diamonds are going to become like pearls. Do you assume that a woman wearing pearl studs is wearing “fakes?” Because while there are still natural pearls being sold at huge prices, the majority of pearls you see while out and about are cultured pearls and no one thinks of them as “fakes.” They are still pearls created through a manmade process.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Ignorant AF. You have no idea how much money people have. A 7 carat lab diamond probably costs someone $10K, don't be stupid.

You’re the ignorant one here. It costs about $1000 now china is in the market.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Ignorant AF. You have no idea how much money people have. A 7 carat lab diamond probably costs someone $10K, don't be stupid.

You’re the ignorant one here. It costs about $1000 now china is in the market.

https://www.luvansh.com/product/47437/igi-certified-7-11-g-si1-oval-lab-created-diamond--f

looks like you’re the stupid one here. Paying more than $2000 for a lab diamond that’s 7 carat, that would be dumb, yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Ignorant AF. You have no idea how much money people have. A 7 carat lab diamond probably costs someone $10K, don't be stupid.

Well I know that a mined 7 carat would cost around $150-200k. So I would assume anyone that has a stone that size has a lab. If that is offensive to you, I don’t know what to tell you. You can’t rail against mined diamonds as being so unethical and be mad that people assume your huge rock is a lab. How ridiculous can you be.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the price difference?

Same quality 2 carat; about 25-30k for mined, 1k for lab.

I bought a 2 carat lab cushion cut for about $500 a couple of months ago.

Nice. I love cushion cuts

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Where are the best places to buy lab diamonds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t tell and don’t care, and I also can’t tell Diamond vs CZ with the naked eye and neither can anyone else. If someone says they can, they’re lying.

You can def tell the difference between diamond/cz/mossianite with the naked eye.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

If your diamond is that big, you weren't "poor."

Stay classy, DCUM.

I know! My ring was 10,000 in 2000, we were so poor

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the price difference?

Same quality 2 carat; about 25-30k for mined, 1k for lab.

I bought a 2 carat lab cushion cut for about $500 a couple of months ago.

Where?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Can you imagine? Kathy's ring wasn't mined with slave labor! The scandal!"

Please. Most mined diamonds aren’t mined by slave labor anymore. Labs have all kinds of chemical and environmental issues and they’re made in china and India. Let’s not get too pompous.

I actually can tell a bit. I didn’t want a totally perfect stone it looks fake. I like a flaw and I like an old stone.

lol “mined” diamonds are ten times the cost. And sorry the labor issues with diamonds have not been resolved and the environmental impact of mining will always dwarf a synthetic process. And labs will drag down the “value” of ALL diamonds. Enjoy your “flaws.”

I actually read an article in the WSJ that said the exact opposite. Because so many people are buying lab grown diamonds now, it's a bigger deal and more of a status symbol to have a real diamond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Can you imagine? Kathy's ring wasn't mined with slave labor! The scandal!"

Please. Most mined diamonds aren’t mined by slave labor anymore. Labs have all kinds of chemical and environmental issues and they’re made in china and India. Let’s not get too pompous.

I actually can tell a bit. I didn’t want a totally perfect stone it looks fake. I like a flaw and I like an old stone.

lol “mined” diamonds are ten times the cost. And sorry the labor issues with diamonds have not been resolved and the environmental impact of mining will always dwarf a synthetic process. And labs will drag down the “value” of ALL diamonds. Enjoy your “flaws.”

I actually read an article in the WSJ that said the exact opposite. Because so many people are buying lab grown diamonds now, it's a bigger deal and more of a status symbol to have a real diamond.

The problem is that the average person can’t tell the difference, unless you go around telling everyone which would be very weird. So even if you have a $200,000 ring, almost everyone thinks it is $5000. A friend of nine is extremely wealthy and has a real diamond ring worth around $200,000. I know it is real but now it looks as fake as everyone else’s because it is so over the top

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What’s a good place to buy lab diamonds? In the market for studs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Can you imagine? Kathy's ring wasn't mined with slave labor! The scandal!"

Please. Most mined diamonds aren’t mined by slave labor anymore. Labs have all kinds of chemical and environmental issues and they’re made in china and India. Let’s not get too pompous.

I actually can tell a bit. I didn’t want a totally perfect stone it looks fake. I like a flaw and I like an old stone.

lol “mined” diamonds are ten times the cost. And sorry the labor issues with diamonds have not been resolved and the environmental impact of mining will always dwarf a synthetic process. And labs will drag down the “value” of ALL diamonds. Enjoy your “flaws.”

I actually read an article in the WSJ that said the exact opposite. Because so many people are buying lab grown diamonds now, it's a bigger deal and more of a status symbol to have a real diamond.

How would anyone know though? To be a status symbol wouldn’t people have to be able to see the difference?

If anything, I feel like people now assume larger stones are labs even when they aren’t