Anonymous wrote: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!

Mind clean to me would be lab diamonds because I’d have a free conscious!

I bought a certified estate antique for the reason of avoiding new mined diamonds.
As for lab versus mined, it totally depends on how it feels to you. I got one of each to test it out recently when I lost my ring. I felt like - this is subjective - the lab felt like costume jewelry. It wouldn’t have felt that way if it was my original ring or my husband gave it to me, I don’t think. But it literally felt like something from Anthropologie that I bought for a party. So I found an estate marked piece and I love it. To each their own.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Have you seen pictures of what diamond mines do to the earth? Or the conflict that some diamonds fuels? That’s reason enough for me not to buy one.

Only a fool would waste money on a mined diamond today since lab grown are available at a much lower price, yet much higher quality.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor 25 year old with 1.4 ct ring.
We were poor 28 year olds DH just started his first job as a professor. No diamond. We had 10kt wedding rings and had a honeymoon.

Yeah I laughed at the post. So self-aware!

Same! What a clueless person!

What's the price difference?

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Anonymous wrote:Poor 25 year old with 1.4 ct ring.
We were poor 28 year olds DH just started his first job as a professor. No diamond. We had 10kt wedding rings and had a honeymoon.

Yeah I laughed at the post. So self-aware!

Me too lol. Clueless

+1

And, isn't the purpose of the ring the sentimental value? I think I'd value the original ring more.

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.

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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.

lol my engagement ring has inclusions visible to the naked eye, are they a status symbol now??

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Anonymous wrote:Poor 25 year old with 1.4 ct ring.
We were poor 28 year olds DH just started his first job as a professor. No diamond. We had 10kt wedding rings and had a honeymoon.

Yeah I laughed at the post. So self-aware!

Me too lol. Clueless

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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.

I mean, you can always buy a lab with a lower color grade/clarity if you don’t want perfect.

But I do agree with pp who mentioned that diamonds just can’t be used as a wealth signifier anymore when you can buy a decent 3 carat diamond for around 1k

Anonymous wrote:Poor 25 year old with 1.4 ct ring.
We were poor 28 year olds DH just started his first job as a professor. No diamond. We had 10kt wedding rings and had a honeymoon.

Yeah I laughed at the post. So self-aware!

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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.

Well, yeah. This is why diamonds as a status symbol are over.

Haven’t they been over? You could always buy cz and no one could tell! My aunt inherited a beautiful platinum earring set from my grandmother- my grandmother took out the big diamonds and gave them to her sons to use for engagement rings. My aunt, who has more than enough money for diamonds, put cz in those earrings and happily went her way. People probably think they are real because she is wealthy- they’re not!

Meaning people

Inaccurate.

Not op but curious to know which brands carry the best lab grown?

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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.

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.”