The cost of lab diamond is not cheap

With the rapid development of technology and the continuous improvement of technology, Synthetic diamonds have gradually come into and occupied the public and breaking the price barrier between the average consumer and the diamond. When man made diamonds first appeared There was a common misconception that the price of created diamonds would drop dramatically over the next few decades.

A common misconception was that the price of man made diamonds would decline dramatically over the next few decades, and the natural diamond industry strongly promoted this misconception, believing that the price of man made diamonds would fall to that of inferior diamond imitations (e.g., moissanite, cubic zirconia). 

Do man made diamonds have to be associated with "cheap"?

This biased idea is very wrong! It all starts with the production of man made diamonds.

First of all, man made diamonds have exactly the same optical, physical and chemical properties as natural diamonds. They are made of the same substance, carbon atoms, and are the real deal! You must understand this.

You must understand this! Behind this characteristic, it is necessary to have the most advanced technology and the most powerful equipment behind this characteristic, it is necessary to have the most advanced technology and the most powerful equipment to support it. There are currently two main methods of diamond cultivation on the market, namely the CVD (vapor deposition) method and HPHT (High Temperature High Pressure) method.

The CVD method uses diamonds as the substrate for crystallization, and passes a mixture of hydrogen and methane as the main gases. The ionized carbon is deposited on the substrate to form a diamond. The ionized carbon is deposited on the substrate to form a diamond. The ionic carbon is deposited on the substrate, forming the diamond.

It is difficult to find the right conditions, and even if one is found, the actual growth process is not controllable and the quality of the diamonds varies. The actual growth process is not controlled, and the quality of the diamonds varies, with the growth of a small, high-quality rough diamond often taking hundreds of A small rough diamond often takes hundreds of hours or more to grow.

The HPHT method simulates the growth process of natural diamonds by creating a high-temperature, high-pressure environment in the center of the machine to achieve the growth of the carbon layer.

The HPHT method relies on expensive equipment, with a single six-sided top press costing millions of dollars and weighing several tons each, making it a truly large machinery. And the entire growth process requires extremely precise operation, with tightly controlled temperature fluctuations. Otherwise, there is no quality control for the rough diamonds produced. 

The industry also has a problem with high quality man made diamonds, which are difficult to grow and rare. Growing brown or industrial quality lab diamonds is easier and cheaper, while growing colorless, high-quality man made diamonds is expensive and difficult. expensive and difficult to grow. As in the natural diamond industry, there are two completely different supplies of man made diamonds: high quality and low quality.

Why is it difficult to grow high quality man made diamonds?

There is a well-known speed limit on the growth rate of diamond crystals. If one tries to make a diamond grow faster, the diamond's crystals will break, resulting in low clarity. Hot, fast growth also can create more voids in the crystal structure, resulting in brown, yellow and gray undertones.Taking shortcuts can produce low quality man made diamonds. One way to accelerate the growth of HPHT diamonds is to add boron to the growth process.

boron is added during the growth process. This can result in man made diamonds with undesirable and low-quality bluestone. Grown diamonds with a brownish color can be irradiated to remove the color, but this results in a grayish color and a cloudy appearance.cloudy appearance.

The lab diamond growth process is one of the most difficult and precise manufacturing techniques ever developed by mankind. The operation and maintenance of lab diamond growth equipment requires specialized technicians.

Secondly, the cost of technology development is one of the major investment costs in the field of diamond cultivation. Nowadays, domestic diamond technology is very mature, but because of the technical difficulties, has not really reached high quality and stable output. The little breakthrough in this field often means the unremitting efforts of R&D personnel and The little breakthrough in this field often means the unremitting efforts of R&D personnel and costs of up to ten million yuan.

Finally, there is the cost of cutting and setting diamonds. The cost of cutting and polishing a rough diamond into a diamond gem is exactly the same as for a natural diamond. Diamonds are the hardest natural material on earth and can only be cut by other diamonds or cut and polished by multi-million dollar laser tools. As you can clearly understand, lab diamonds are not synonymous with cheapness, but rather a romantic combination of technology and aesthetics.

The cost of lab diamonds is mainly concentrated in the technological development and production stages. The cost of a natural diamond is mainly focused on The cost of a natural diamond is centered on the labor to mine it and the high brand premium.

There are many consumers who need lab diamonds to fulfill their As a practitioner of sustainability and environmental protection, lab diamonds meet the needs of consumers while also As sustainable and green practitioners, lab diamonds will meet consumer demand and spark a new wave of consumer change. Understanding the cost of nurturing diamonds After understanding the cost of lab diamonds, we hope that we will stop linking lab diamonds to cheapness, which is an inherent consumer bias and a misconception. It is a misconception.