Next Catoca and Luele sales will see lower availability in those sizes, Endiama says.
Category: Synthetics
Company, belonging to same family as Kiran Gems, currently generates 250,000 carats per month.
Organization believes wording other than “synthetic” has hurt natural diamonds.
Policy changes at the GIA and HRD Antwerp should help differentiate synthetics from natural.
Institute will not stop grading synthetics or label them differently, unlike HRD or GIA, it said.
Economics and finance ministry rejects “lab-grown” tag.
HRD Antwerp will still issue reports for mounted stones in jewelry.
New description will no longer use color and clarity nomenclature.
Company cites dramatic decline in wholesale prices.
Gap in shoppers’ understanding of natural vs. synthetic diamonds is narrowing, according to Plumb Club.
The device ensures a 0% false positive rate, guaranteeing no synthetics are mistaken for natural, the miner says.