Lab-made diamonds FTW

[Axtremus]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56972562
The world's biggest jeweller, Pandora, says it will no longer sell mined diamonds and will switch to exclusively laboratory-made diamonds.

More humane, more environmentally friendly, significantly cheaper, physically and chemically identical to mined diamonds.

[xenon]

Makes sense for them. I think they sell really tiny diamonds. It's the big stuff that's hard to make. (My info could be outdated)

[Copper]

That will probably put a lot of poor people out of business.

[Loki]

@copper said in Lab-made diamonds FTW:

That will probably put a lot of poor people out of business.

It’s some strange form of virtue signaling.

[89th]

Where’s Kenny?

[kluurs]

@xenon said in Lab-made diamonds FTW:

Makes sense for them. I think they sell really tiny diamonds. It's the big stuff that's hard to make. (My info could be outdated)

They can large diamonds. They've made up to 15 carats

[George K]

https://www.rarecarat.com/diamonds/3bea0a97-a86c-44ca-913c-42c55bf1c109

Looks like 1 carat will be about $1000, give or take depending on cut, etc.

Here's a pair of 0.5 carat earrings.

[Jolly]

Diamonds have had artificially high prices for many years. I'm surprised they aren't making them include an artifact, such as they do with rubies or emeralds.