New Diamond Technology has produced 5 ct. and 10 ct. man-made diamonds, and it may just be getting started
Rob Bates | March 17, 2016 | Cutting Remarks
"First, New Diamond Technology stunned the market with a 5.11 ct. lab-grown diamond. Then it topped that with a 10.02 carater (see video below). Recently, it announced a 5 ct. lab-grown blue diamond that will be displayed at Baselworld 2016 (pictured, right).
These diamonds are impressive achievements for a sector in which, until recently, the largest diamond was 3 cts. The quality of the St. Petersburg, Russia–based company’s bread-and-butter production also seems significantly ahead of the competition: It says it’s producing 300 cts. of diamonds a month, mostly in the colorless (D-E-F) range, of VVS1–VS1 clarity, about 1–3 cts. “With regular [mine] production, maybe 2 percent are in the ..."
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