Diamond Jewellery

Zed N Zed carries thousands of exclusive jewellery pieces to cater for all. We have our own qualified jeweller on the premises, providing professional opinions for your very own, one of a kind piece. We have the skills and ability to custom make any personalised jewellery items you require, consisting of any grading of diamonds of your choice. Come in to our shop at Westfield Shopping centre in Hurstville, and let our specialists exceed your expectations

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Red Diamond Ring

Whilst two-days back, I introduced you to the red diamond ring reaching the Christie’s auction and today the ring has set a new record by selling off this dazzling ring festooned with a unique red purple diamond for a shocking $2.6 million. The octagonal shape of the ring is equipped with 2.26 carats and stand with the honopur of being the largest red diamond, ever to be auctioned. The proud owner of the gem is the English jeweler, Laurence Graff

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Discount Diamonds

Discount diamonds, diamonds direct to you at incredible wholesale diamond prices. Diamond brokers are available on the Internet selling high quality wholesale discount diamonds directly to you. Save thousands on a premium quality discount diamonds by buying from a diamond broker.
Discount diamonds - your first step to discount diamonds is to find a reputable diamond broker. A diamond broker will purchase a wholesale discount diamond directly from diamond cutters. By buying discount diamonds direct from diamond cutters the diamond broker will save your thousands. And the quality of your discount diamond will be the best.
Discount diamonds - your next step toward a discount diamond is to separate your wants from your needs. While a wholesale discount diamond is much less that you will find at retail jewelers a quality discount diamond is still expensive. Determine your discount diamonds carat, color, clarity and most importantly your budget for your discount diamond. A diamond broker can help you with your discount diamond and explain the diamond grade difference.
Discount diamonds - finally make sure you find a true diamond broker. Many people are calling themselved diamond brokers and claim to have discount diamonds. True diamond brokers will buy your wholesale discount diamond directly from the cutters. Others may go to diamond wholesalers who will mark you your so called wholesale discount diamond by 15-20%.
Discount diamonds - One final word of advice. Make sure your diamond broker has a clear return policy for wholesale discount diamonds. Canada Diamonds Inc offers a industry leading 15 day 100% money back guarantee on all discount diamonds brokered.
Good luck with your search for wholesale discount diamonds

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. Artificial Diamonds

The idea of making artificial diamond isn't new. H.G. Wells proposed exactly such a thing in his story "The Diamond Maker" in 1911. Since then, scientists have come up with ways to create synthetic diamonds and diamond simulants like cubic zirconia - but experts could always tell them apart. Until now.
In the past decade, scientists have perfected a technique called Chemical Vapor Deposition, where carbon gas cloud is passed over diamond seeds in a vacuum chamber heated to more than 1,800 degrees. In a matter of days, they are now able to "grow" diamonds that are virtually indistinguishable from natural ones, even to the experts:
Seeking an unbiased assessment of the quality of these laboratory diamonds, I asked Bryant Linares to let me borrow an Apollo stone. The next day, I place the .38 carat, princess-cut stone in front of Virgil Ghita in Ghita's narrow jewelry store in downtown Boston. With a pair of tweezers, he brings the diamond up to his right eye and studies it with a jeweler's loupe, slowly turning the gem in the mote-filled afternoon sun. "Nice stone, excellent color. I don't see any imperfections," he says. "Where did you get it?"
"It was grown in a lab about 20 miles from here," I reply.
He lowers the loupe and looks at me for a moment. Then he studies the stone again, pursing his brow. He sighs. "There's no way to tell that it's lab-created." (Source)
But if you think that the price of diamond will fall precipitously, think again. Companies that make cultured diamonds like Apollo and Gemesis aren't stupid: they're not going to kill the goose that laid the diamond egg by flooding the market with cheap stones

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Famous Diamonds

Just because they're not rare, it doesn't mean that there aren't exceptional diamonds. There's the 45-carat Hope Diamond (and its famous Curse), the mystical Koh-I-Noor Diamond, and the largest diamond ever found, the 546 carat Golden Jubilee

But this is Neatorama, so here's a truly fascinating story about the Bokassa Diamond. In 1977, a crazy Central African dictator named Jean-Bédel Bokassa declared himself an emperor and asked Albert Jolis, the president of a diamond mining operation, for a diamond ring (he made sure Jolis knew that nothing smaller than a golf ball-sized rock would do!)
Jolis didn't have the money to buy such a large stone but if he didn't deliver one, his company would lose the mining concession in Central Africa. So he devised a clever ruse: Jolis found a large piece of black diamond bort (a poorly crystallized diamond usually fit only to be crushed into abrasive powder) that curiously resembled Africa in shape. He ordered the diamond polished and mounted on a large ring. A one-quarter carat white diamond was then set roughly where the country is located on the continent.
Jolis presented the "unique" diamond to Bokassa, and the clueless emperor loved it! He thought that the $500 ring was worth over $500,000! Just two years later, when Bokassa was overthrown in a coup, Jolis heard that he went into exile with his prize diamond ring, and noted wryly: "It's a priceless diamond as long as he doesn't try to sell it." (Source)

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Moon-Sized Diamond

So - diamonds aren't rare on Earth, and it may not be rare in space either. In 2004, astronomer Travis Metcalfe of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and colleagues discovered a diamond star that is 10 billion trillion trillion carats!
The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.
It's the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk.
Astronomers have decided to call the star "Lucy" after the Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. (Source)
According to scientists, if you wait long enough, our own sun will eventually turn into one such large diamond star!

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Are Diamonds Rare?

Diamonds are actually quite rare in the past but not any more. While it's true that the process of extracting diamond is quite laborious (mines move many tons of dirt per carat of diamond found) and that gem-quality diamonds are relatively few (only about 1 in 1 million diamonds are quality one carat stones, only 1 in 5 million are 2-carat; and 1 in 15 million are 3-carat), diamonds are not rare in an economic sense because supply exceeds demand. (Photo: mafic [Flickr])
To maintain the high prices of diamonds, De Beers creates an artificial scarcity: they stockpile mined diamonds and sell them in small amounts.
Perhaps De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer said it best: "diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill." (mental_floss, vol 7 issue 6, p. 21 "Diamond Engagement Rings" by Rebecca Zerzan)

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