A booming market for artificial diamonds yet no match for the real thing Don't expect the synthetic stones to surpass natural ones anytime soon because the world's biggest miners of diamonds aren't looking to get into man-made diamonds Premium Cast in stone: “The Spectacle”, a 100.94-carat colourless diamond from Russia that was sold for over $14 million in May 2021 …
Pandora A/S, which makes more pieces of jewellery than any other company in the world, will stop using mined diamonds as part of a broader strategy to drop raw materials associated with unethical production methods. A host of lab-grown-diamond makers and retailers have sprung up in recent years, keen to target customers with more affordable stones that aren’t marred by …
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Editor’s Note: This story was produced as part of CNN Style’s The September Issues, a hub for facts, features and opinions about fashion, the climate crisis, and you. “Looking deeper into it and talking to many diamond traders we heard about identical diamonds made in a lab and saw it as our opportunity to bring transparency and ethics to an …