OP, if rare is what you are after then you might be surprised that actually lab diamond
might be soon consider more rear then the mined one. In like fifteen minutes someone
will find a technology to scoop those and then you will be like.. wow... I have a rare
lab diamond, not mined one .

There are over a quadrillion tons of diamonds lurking 100 miles below the Earth's
surface, according to scientists

https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-found-quadrillion-tons-of-diamonds-below-earth-surface-2018-7

Is gold also bad for the people mining it, and if so -- have any laboratories figured out alchemy? (I assume science has advanced from the middle ages.)

Anonymous wrote:The diamond market will probably collapse someday.

Diamond lasts forever, but wives die.

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Anonymous wrote:Even natural diamonds aren’t rare. They are only rare because Debeers hoards them to create fake scarcity.

Get the lab grown.

Seriously. Diamonds aren't rare! It's just marketing and manipulation of the market!

I know some smug buzzfeed article told you this, but it’s not true. High quality diamonds are rare, and they are no longer subject to monopolistic pricing.

https://www.gemsociety.org/article/are-diamonds-really-rare/

Anonymous wrote:Would you take a lab-grown diamond in your engagement ring if it meant you could get a bigger stone? I am leaning toward yes but I wonder if it will secretly always bug me that it's not mined, you know? Just wondering what other people think.

Dear OP, no, it would not bug me, it would actually make me feel good about the whole ring thing.
You do realize that people DIE mining the diamonds right?
Also, you do realize that the value of your ring drops from 100% price you paid to about 20%
if you were to sell it the next day. So why not buy a ring that has a nice big stone that
is human suffering and cruelty free and enjoy it.

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Anonymous wrote:^fake in my final sentence should be in quotes lol

Nice try but too late. You made my point.

I’m typing from my phone and planned to go back and add them later. Sorry. I can tell from your posts you aren’t super intelligent and need everything spelled out for you.

I actually am super intelligent. At least enough to know when a counterfeit bill is shopped to me and I'm told, "if you look at it closely you'll see it's made out of the exact same material as a real bill --even an expert can't tell the difference!" that doesn't make it a real bill. A real bill is made by the government. A real diamond is made by the earth.

BS. Bitcoin.

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Anonymous wrote:I, too, would be tempted to get a bigger lab diamond if it meant pissing off the nasty brat in this thread.

There are lots of us on this thread, not just one. But go ahead and buy a lab diamond if you want to invest your money in pissing people off. It's no better reason I guess than in faking that you own a real diamond.

Honest don't worry you are very special and unique, just like a mined diamond. We can all see it.

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Anonymous wrote:^fake in my final sentence should be in quotes lol

Nice try but too late. You made my point.

I’m typing from my phone and planned to go back and add them later. Sorry. I can tell from your posts you aren’t super intelligent and need everything spelled out for you.

I actually am super intelligent. At least enough to know when a counterfeit bill is shopped to me and I'm told, "if you look at it closely you'll see it's made out of the exact same material as a real bill --even an expert can't tell the difference!" that doesn't make it a real bill. A real bill is made by the government. A real diamond is made by the earth.

NP here. LMAO. Why are you so invested.

Anonymous wrote:Who said lab diamonds are good for the environment? The electricity usage is insane. Unless they’re being manufactured somewhere that doesn’t use fossil fuel (DeBeers plans to start production in Oregon where electric is hydro) the environmental impact is probably worse than mining.

True. I guess it is blood diamond vs dirty diamond.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a lab grown diamond for my engagement ring. That’s what I wanted because I wanted mine made by lab techs making $20/hr with health insurance rather than people with no other options making $2/week in dangerous conditions. Probably neither scenarios are exactly what’s going on but that’s what I was thinking.

This is right on. We should buy fake diamonds because it's better for the environment and all the human beings involved in both processes. Just don't say we should call them real diamonds for those reasons.

They are real diamonds.

Don't waste your breath. These people are illiterate as long as science goes.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the difference? If it was something like .78ct. natural vs 1ct. lab grown I'd say just take the natural. But if you'd get 3ct. instead of 1, I say hell ya girl get that rock.

It would be like 2.5-3 instead of 1, yes. So, a pretty significant change.

No. A 3ct fake diamond is vulgar.

How would you tell the difference? Do you carry a jewelers loupe around? Or are you just bitter you overpaid and no ones going to look at your tiny ”real” rock?

You can tell the difference by the person wearing it.

Ivana, is that you?

Anonymous wrote:“Mind clean” is real, OP. You can’t tell the difference but only you can decide if you’ll be just as happy with lab-grown!

Sound like a term coined by Mad Man.

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Anonymous wrote:They are real diamonds and literally jewelers can't even tell without running it through a machine to test for carbon. Doubt some snooty moms at your future kid's prep school will be able to tell from across the carpool line. So yes.

No they are not real diamonds. Real diamonds took over 3 billions years to form, under the immense pressure of the earth. That's what makes them so special -- and so valuable. Man made diamonds are not "real" and that's why they are cheap.

No they are real. They are quite literally the exact same thing; the atomical makeup is identical.

And they are valuable because DeBeers has a stockpile and jacks up the cost.

Wait till all the used diamonds come to market after the boomers die.

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Anonymous wrote:They are real diamonds and literally jewelers can't even tell without running it through a machine to test for carbon. Doubt some snooty moms at your future kid's prep school will be able to tell from across the carpool line. So yes.

No they are not real diamonds. Real diamonds took over 3 billions years to form, under the immense pressure of the earth. That's what makes them so special -- and so valuable. Man made diamonds are not "real" and that's why they are cheap.

diamonds don't have any natural value. Debeers has controlled the international market, created demand, and created the best marketing campaign in history " A diamond is forever"

+1. This is accurate. I have little skin in this game as I am a sapphire person (so can battle it out on PS over gemstones!), but if I were in the market for a diamond, I would absolutely go lab. Diamonds are not rare. It's a market manipulation.

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Anonymous wrote:They are real diamonds and literally jewelers can't even tell without running it through a machine to test for carbon. Doubt some snooty moms at your future kid's prep school will be able to tell from across the carpool line. So yes.

No they are not real diamonds. Real diamonds took over 3 billions years to form, under the immense pressure of the earth. That's what makes them so special -- and so valuable. Man made diamonds are not "real" and that's why they are cheap.

diamonds don't have any natural value. Debeers has controlled the international market, created demand, and created the best marketing campaign in history " A diamond is forever"