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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Man made diamonds are diamonds.  High VSS rating, meaning clean, no occlusions.
It is because of the complete lack of occlusions that an expert can tell they are not natural.

Natural stones have natural features, like occlusions, veining, coloration, some kind of blemish in its body. Teeny tiny but they are there.[/quote]

Have you never seen a gem?

Lab grown diamonds are real diamonds grown on a controlled environment. 
They are magnificent. [/quote]

Yes, I have a 2 karat edwardian piece. 
The appraiser explained to me that manmade diamonds are obvious because they have no occlusions, blemishes.  
When dealers are looking at diamonds thru the magnifiers, that's what they are looking for when they grade the stones.[/quote]

It's weird because every time I have lunch with this one friend, she takes my earrings out of my ear and looks at them through a magnifier. It's so strange!

I think the only way people are going to "know" the diamonds aren't standard mine-sourced is if you get something that's bigger than what your friends probably think you could usually afford. So, like, if you are, say, a nonprofit writer and editor (just for a random example) and show up in diamond earrings that are like 2 carats each, people will probably think they are fake. If you get a size that seems appropriate to your station in life, no one will give it a second thought.

But to the extent that YOU care about both the vibe of having a "natural" diamond and the ethics of not contributing to the environmental and humanitarian harm of diamond mining - just get something vintage. You can have them reset if you want to. [/quote]

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