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Amazing Colors In Diamonds

Pink Diamond

Pink diamonds are the world’s valuable and rarely found diamond. Pink diamonds are considered as treasure of treasures and it is associated with femininity, love and grace. Argyle mine is the world foremost source of supplying 95% of pink diamonds. Pink diamonds produced in India, Brazil and Africa was characteristically light in color.

White Diamond

White diamond is the leading diamond color produced in wide shapes, sizes and varieties. Diamonds used in gemology are basically transparent with a little tint color. These types of diamonds are known as white diamonds. This is the most common type of diamond. Generally, valuable types of diamond will be colorless or white diamonds.

Blue Diamond

Blue diamonds are the most valuable diamonds next to white diamonds or colorless diamonds. Blue colored diamonds are popularly referred as “Hope Diamonds”. Blue diamonds ranges from pale blue of winter day to deep hue of peacock tail. This is one of the fancy diamonds available in wide shades, shapes and sizes. Some blue diamonds have an ability of conducting electricity.

Green Diamond

Green diamonds are rare diamonds, since the natural green color comes from exposure to irradiated particles over eons. Green diamonds are fancy diamonds extremely rare and expensive available in great shapes & colors. Most of the green diamonds are produced from Argyle mine.

Champagne Diamond

Champagne diamonds are natural colored diamonds produced in wide range of colors from light straw to rich cognac. It belongs to brown diamond family in different colors like Fancy Brown Orange, Fancy Orangey Brown, Pinkish Brown and Yellow Brown.

Yellow Diamond

Fancy yellow diamonds comes in wide range of shades from light yellow to rich canary color. There are different shades of yellow diamonds available depending upon the lightness and intensity of yellow hue.Yellow diamond is otherwise called as the Canary Yellow Diamond or Canary Diamond . Yellow diamond is the most common form of Colored Diamonds. Within the range of rare colored diamonds (only 1 carat out of every 10,000 carats mined is a natural fancy color diamond), the yellow diamond has gained tremendous popularity because of its beautiful shine and its relatively affordable prices. Yellow diamonds come in all shapes such as round, oval, cushion cut, asscher cut, princess cut and sizes ,in various color intensities. The Intensities start from light yellow to fancy light yellow diamond and to the fancy yellow diamonds .

Red Diamond

A red diamond is a diamond which displays in red color and shows the same mineral properties as colorless diamonds. Red diamonds are more expensive and it is the rarest diamond color in the world, more than pink diamonds or blue diamonds.Red diamonds is one among the 12 colors of fancy color diamonds, and it is most expensive price per carat.

Orange Diamond

Orange diamonds is the most cherished colored stones in reality, Most orange diamonds are found in one of two places, the Argyle mine in Australia or South Africa. These stones were unique hue in the presence of nitrogen - which is the same element responsible for the color in yellow diamonds

Grey Diamonds

In recent years, Grey diamonds have boomed in popularity and make up a large portion of the engagement rings. Grey diamonds are in two categories - Fancy Grey Diamonds and Included / Salt and Pepper Grey Diamonds.

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