A lab-grown diamond is a real diamond, they have the same chemical, physical and visual properties as traditionally mined diamonds. The same crystallisation and the same hardness. They are available in exactly the same colour and clarity types, and are available in the same sizes and shapes.

Lab-grown diamonds are certainly not fake diamonds. Fake diamonds are typically glass, synthetic cubic zirconia, moissanite and other simulants, These all tend to chip with wear. Lab-created diamonds have none of those issues. They are just as durable have the same sparkle factor of any mined diamond.

The certifying gem laboratory lazer inscribes the waist or girdle with the certificate number and usually the word 'Lab-Grown' If there’s nothing on the girdle, only a major gemological laboratory can tell you whether the diamond is mined or created.

As long as they have high cut, symmetry and polish grades, lab-grown diamonds sparkle! Interestingly and typically lab-grown diamonds are Type 2a diamonds have no measurable nitrogen impurities. Type 2a diamonds make up 1–2% of all mined diamonds. Type 2a diamonds are almost or entirely devoid of impurities and a Type 2a diamond of a given colour, clarity and make will out sparkle a non Type 2a stone with the same colour, clarity and make.

Ethical diamond mining has become a hot topic and in a world wrecked by a man-made plague surely now is the time to consider the planet. There are 282 productive diamond mines in the world, the top 10 have an estimated 1.92 billion carats of diamond yet to be mined. For each carat of diamonds they mine, they will destroy 250 tons* of rock. CLICK HERE to see the mess that makes of our planet. Lab-grown diamonds are certainly a more environmentally sustainable option.

*Source the BBC

Absolutely Assuming you are comparing like certificate, shape, size, colour, clarity and make [that's the trade term for cut, polish and symmetry] then you can expect to pay circa 40% less

Correct at time of writing

Of course, in fact entirely like mined diamonds they are worth exactly what a person will pay. Unlike your car, which will be worthless in 10 years, historically diamonds have increased in value, logically lab-grown diamonds will follow that trend. There certainly is scare mongering from mined diamond stock holders in the trade, but hey, if you had a zillion dollars of mined diamonds in stock and knew that 71% of Millennials were turning their backs on mined diamonds in preference for lab-grown diamonds it would be natural to be a little twitchy. Try as we might we only found negative assumptions about resale value of lab-grown diamonds in articles that were negative and disparaging towards lab-grown diamonds.

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