Do people think that synthetic stones hold their value? What concerns people most about synthetic gemstones is their price and whether they retain their value? In fact, there are three attributes that make a gemstone a gemstone One is its beauty, the other is its scarcity and the other is its durability.
The actual reserves of diamonds and coloured gemstones are really not as large as we all think, and the cost of mining them is also very high. There are some good mining resources in some of the smaller countries in Africa, but they have never been exploited because the cost of exploitation is too high.
There is a big coloured gemstone mining company called Gemfields, and two years ago they tried to negotiate a partnership with them in a small African country where there are a lot of coloured gemstones that have not been exploited. They wanted to develop coloured gemstones there and sell them elsewhere, and the local authorities thought it was a good opportunity to make a fortune.
They calculated that the total share of the local authorities was 300%, which means that if I work hard every day to mine here, and if I produce a value of $10,000, then I might get a share of the profit.
That means that if I work hard every day, when I have mined $10,000, I may have to give out $30,000 in dividends, which is an exaggeration, and then the plan fails. The main methods of synthesising gemstones are the flame fusion method, the pulling method, the co-solvent method, the hydrothermal method, etc. The flame fusion method was the simplest and was discovered around 1900.
The ruby is then heated and a pipe is run down the middle of the vessel, which melts the ruby in the process. The ruby is then melted down, drop by drop, and grows upwards at the bottom, like a small candle.
The flame fusion method is very cheap, costing only a few cents per carat for bulk purchases, but there are some more costly forms of synthesis, such as the hydrothermal method, which is more expensive.
The hydrothermal method was only invented at the end of the 19th century, and the first emerald crystals were synthesised around 1930, and commercial production of hydrothermal emeralds was achieved around 1965.
The vessel is called a metal axe, made of special steel on the outside and platinum on the inside, and it is heated at a temperature of 500 to 600 degrees.The advantages of hydrothermal emeralds are clear: firstly, they are relatively large, and their clarity is extremely high, and their colour can be very beautiful, achieving the top Colombian mosaic colour.
The cost of a hydrothermal synthetic emerald is relatively high, but it is still a far cry from a natural emerald. As the timeline of synthetic gemstones continues to lengthen and the technology continues to be upgraded and iterated, the results obtained become better and more efficient, with the earlier, more costly
Synthetic diamonds, for example, are also known as lab diamonds, and the price system we see for lab diamonds on the market is not particularly well developed.The price system we see in the market for lab diamonds is not particularly well developed, and the price range is still quite large, roughly one third to one tenth of the price of natural diamonds.
Do you think that at one tenth the price is the end? As time goes on we can see with our naked eyes that there is room for the price of synthetic diamonds to continue to fall, and as the price of synthetic diamonds falls, to a certain extent it will also push up the price of natural diamonds.
As the price of synthetic diamonds dips, it will to some extent push up the price of natural diamonds, if you don't believe me. We can go back to a year ago, two years ago, a lot of jewellery gurus predicted that some of them were actually beaten, many of them said that with the emergence of synthetic diamonds natural diamonds would avalanche and natural diamonds would become more expensive.
Many people said that with the advent of synthetic diamonds, natural diamonds would avalanche and become unavailable for purchase, but the truth is that natural diamonds have been moving upwards for the past two years and are actually still relatively stable.
So my advice is that from a businessman's point of view we have a responsibility and an obligation to educate people about what natural stones are and what synthetic stones are. What is a synthetic stone? What is the difference between them? This must be made clear.
From the customer's point of view, I think it is important for us to understand the difference between natural and synthetic stones so that we can be more rational when choosing.
Diamonds and coloured gemstones are not a necessity, they are a luxury. It is only natural that we have needs beyond food, clothing, housing and transport, and it depends on our own needs when choosing. If I have an expert in mind, or if I want it to appreciate in value and have the property of retaining value, then the recommendation is definitely a natural stone or now a diamond, if we are just buying it to play with and wear it, then we don't need to bother about whether it
If we buy it to play with and wear it, then we don't have to worry about whether it's natural or not, but we know it's synthetic, and we know it doesn't hold its value, it doesn't increase in value later on. I make this distinction between natural and synthetic stones, because natural stones have value retention properties and are more valuable, they are part of the jewellery category, but synthetic stones have no value retention properties and are cheaper.
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