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 Post subject: Pink Diamond
PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 11:13 am 
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What is the reason for such a price?

https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamon ... sku-169791

Is it the carbon inclusions that make it unique and pricy?


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 Post subject: Re: Pink Diamond
PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 12:14 pm 
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No, it's the color.
Fancy colored diamonds are usually heavily included.


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 12:32 pm 
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specially the Term "Pink" makes it expensive,

anyway i don't like this one, can find better with same price

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 12:56 pm 
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There's no way it's worth anything like that, is there?

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Stephen Challener wrote:
There's no way it's worth anything like that, is there?

Not to me.


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 Post subject: Re: Pink Diamond
PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 2:53 pm 
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48.ooo for this "beauty"... #-o

How many superfine gems you can buy for this amount.

Don't know why this one is soo expensive - this vendor offers other FCD with a "good" price.

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 Post subject: Re: Pink Diamond
PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 3:14 pm 
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shows what I know. If someone had offered me this stone for $48 I would have turned them down. $48k!? Really?!


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 4:18 pm 
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Pink diamonds are the rarest gemstones in the world, only about 10 or 12 are found each year. The price for this one is about par for the course.


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 5:48 pm 
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'Rarest' is not a very meaningful designation in gems--you can argue over stats until the cows come home (I don't think pink diamond would chart to be honest), and even if you do it unfortunately doesn't translate to value. I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers from but they're off. The Argyle mine has an annual event where they sell off the very best of the pink diamonds they produced in that year, which numbers around 40. That's a highly select few from their total production--no chance this stone would come close to that.

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Alan F. wrote:
Pink diamonds are the rarest gemstones in the world, only about 10 or 12 are found each year. The price for this one is about par for the course.


I don't agree - only 10-12 each year [-X - maybe you mean the Argyle Tender stones.

I bought my two pink diamonds around 1988-1989 - first years of
production of Argyle Mine. Google Leibish or Langerman - you can still find and buy many pink diamonds.

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Thank you for the replies.

I do not consider myself as rough stone "expert" and definitely not loose cut diamond expert. But if I saw this stone or couple of more shown on that page with such carbon inclusions in raw state, personally I would get burns all over my eyes and fingers like Mefisto entering center of Rome. Thats why I thought for a sec this "dalmatine" pattern is something unique when it comes cut and polished gems.

Alan, where did u get such an info? Personal experience, journals? Honestly, I am curious.


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 Post subject: Re: Pink Diamond
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lappen wrote:
....Alan, where did u get such an info? Personal experience, journals? Honestly, I am curious.

read these you will understand
http://www.novel-collection.com/Pink-diamonds-guide
http://www.naturallycolored.com/buying- ... ying-guide

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 Post subject: Re: Pink Diamond
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Barbra Voltaire wrote:
No, it's the color.
Fancy colored diamonds are usually heavily included.


Not in my experience as a diamond cutter. For example, most of the fancy yellows I have seen are eye clean. Fancy colored diamonds with inclusions visible to the unaided are have been in the minority in my experience.

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 Post subject: Re: Pink Diamond
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Quite so, Roman, you beat me to it! I have to confess that I got my quantity figure from the Argyle sights (which are the absolute best of the production). As regards inclusions, I would imagine that a very rare colour means that a diamond that otherwise would be rejected or diverted into industrial use is sold as jewellery


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Alan F. wrote:
Pink diamonds are the rarest gemstones in the world....


i dare to say, reds are far more rare.....

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