Insuring Your Diamonds Insuring a diamond takes a bit of thought, planning, and shopping around. Diamond insurance isn't like purchasing car insurance. It is quite different. Depending on the state that you live in, there are basically three different types of policies that will cover diamonds, and all insurance policies that cover diamonds are considered Marine type policies.
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Selecting Diamonds Diamonds are graded for certification by laboratories using grading criteria. Four of these criteria are critical to understand when making a diamond purchase or investment. Known as the «Four C?s» these criteria are: color, cut, clarity and carat.
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Synthetic Diamonds The first synthetic diamonds were produced by General Electric in 1954. A synthetic diamond is basically a rock that has the durability, refractive index and hardness of a natural diamond, but it is made by man. A synthetic diamond should not be confused with stimulant diamonds, such as glass, cubic zirconia, or moissanite.
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What Are Dirty Diamonds? A dirty diamond is one of two things: a rough diamond, or a diamond that hasn't been cleaned in a while. Rough diamonds are uncut and unpolished, hence, they are dirty. But that type of dirty diamond will soon be cut and polished and sitting in a beautiful jewel box in a display case. Then someone will purchase it, and before long, it will become a dirty diamond once again.
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What Are Black Diamonds There are many different types of jewelry that can be worn and many of these are decorated with gemstones. By and large the gemstones that are set in jewelry are of a treasured and semi cherished nature. They often are of a unique stone or cut. Most of the time we are presented with stones that are very popular ones like diamonds. However, recently black diamonds have begun to make their appearance in the jewelry scene. But, have yet to take off like the standard diamond.
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Where Diamonds are Mined Argye mine located in the Kimberley region in the far north east of Western Australia. Owned by Rio Tinto, this mine is the world's largest single producer of volume of diamonds. However, due to low proportion of gem quality diamonds it is not the value leader. It does produce 90-95% of the world's supply of pink diamonds.
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Platinum Wedding Bands Part 1 It is not necessary to know all about platinum to pick out a platinum wedding band but knowing the price of platinum will obviously help.
This is the first of a three part series on platinum wedding bands. Firstly lets get familiar with what platinum is.
Platinum is a metal that melts at double the temperature of gold so it is very hard and strong. It is also quite rare. In fact so rare that all the platinum in the world currently would likely fit in your living room and it takes about ten tones of ore to refine one ounce of platinum.
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Unique Wedding Band Rings That Have A Personal Touch Couples are always looking for new ways to personalize their wedding day. Some people like to have special vows that they say to each other, whereas others may want a non-traditional ceremony. Still others may decide to set their ceremony apart from other ceremonies by adding in bright, fun colors and having stylish dresses for the bride and bridesmaids. There are so many interesting things that you can do in order to make your wedding day unique and true to your personality. A favorite right now is to find or create unique wedding rings for you as a couple. From tattooing rings on your fingers to engraving the rings with a loving message, there are a number of great ways to personalize your wedding band rings.
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