Putin’s Diamonds

By |July 31st, 2018|Categories: Articles by Abe Sherman, Industry Insights, Industry News|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The gloves have indeed come off. In a recent article, Diamond Foundry has taken a shot at the entire natural diamond industry, specifically naming Tiffany & Company as well as all retail jewelers for selling Russian Diamonds: “Putin’s Diamonds”, as they call them.

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Don’t Poke the Bear – Volume 2

By |June 14th, 2018|Categories: Articles by Abe Sherman, Industry Insights, Industry News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

There is no difference in rarity between a .50ct and a 2.00ct laboratory-grown synthetic diamond (in spite of what the sellers of synthetic diamonds will tell you). The cost to produce them is simply linear – time in the reactor = size of the cube. Period.

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Don’t Poke the Bear

By |May 30th, 2018|Categories: Articles by Abe Sherman, Industry Insights, Industry News|Tags: , , , , |

There is no difference in rarity between a .50ct and a 2.00ct laboratory-grown synthetic diamond (in spite of what the sellers of synthetic diamonds will tell you). The cost to produce them is simply linear – time in the reactor = size of the cube. Period.

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Vaping

By |May 10th, 2018|Categories: Articles by Abe Sherman, Industry Insights, State of the Industry|Tags: , , , , , |

Watching a news program about the problems associated with Vaping, especially with young people, it dawned on me that we have our own Vaping issue: Carbon Vapor Disposition, or CVD man-made diamonds.

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BIG Newsletter: It’s Really Not Confusing

By |May 16th, 2016|Categories: Articles by Abe Sherman, Industry Insights, Industry News|Tags: , , |

They are synthetic. Please stop trying to sell them as anything other than that.It’s not that hard and should not be at all confusing.

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