Different Colors of Colored Diamonds

Recently natural colored diamonds have become extremely popular with jewelers and jewelery shoppers alike. However, due to their rarity they have come at an extraordinary price. People who craft or work with diamonds called "Gemologists" have innovated new ways to make different colored diamonds at an affordable price for many consumers. Most people don't know however that they accomplish this by treating less sought after diamonds. When these diamonds are selected for treating, they are irradiated and then followed up with scorching temperatures. This process makes many of the diamonds that were considered useless before, the browns and the yellows, into a variety of colors ranging from blue to red and even from purple to green. Traditionally, a white diamond was considered the most valuable.

The process of irradiation has made these exquisite colored diamonds available to a much larger market. Most shades of natural colored diamonds are super rare and extremely pricey. Always be sure to ask a jeweler if they are naturally colored diamonds or the man made variety. If the jeweler claims it is a natural colored diamond, ask them where it was mined and find out if you can get some type of official certification to prove it is authentic.

You can also look into synthetic colored diamonds which are completely crafted in a lab, they are real diamonds in every way but they did not occur naturally in nature so many people opt to get the natural ones. These synthetic colored diamonds however are much more affordable.

If the stones you are looking at are naturally colored, they recieve their brilliant shades from many different trace elements that bond into the stones as they are forming. For example if nitrogen gas is trapped in a diamond as it forms below the surface of the Earth, the diamond will take on a yellow color. If high levels of radiation are present at the formation of the diamond it will take on a greenish tone.

The typical way a diamond gets its natural color is through having a large quantity of inclusions. These diamonds were traditionally considered worthless but now many of the chain jewelery stores have begun selling "black diamonds" as some sort of super rare gem. These are the latest diamond scam. A diamond is considered a black diamond because it is so full of carbon inclusions that no light will pass through it and thus it has none of the sparkle of a traditionally sought after diamond.

Sometimes these inclusions will create brilliant displays of new colors though it they are positioned correctly which are labeled as as "champagne" and "chocolate" diamonds. A natural colored diamond is called a "fancy" diamond and they can be very expensive. Always check for authenticity when looking to purchase a stone that a jeweler claims to be a fancy diamond. These diamonds can come in red, blue and pink and range all over the spectrum as to their intensity.

A few of the most famous diamonds in the world are natural colored diamonds. The Hope diamond for example is a blue stone, while the Tiffany diamond is a yellow or "canary" diamond. An interesting thing to consider when purchasing colored diamonds is that their value has never decreased and most colors have doubled or tripled in price since the beginning of the craze.