Jeopardizing the value of the entire diamond industry

As a precious metals refiner who also specializes in stone removal, we can attest it has been increasingly hard to segregate real diamonds from the man-made. Advances in synthetics have made it impossible to identify fakes and it is because of this many synthetics are being sold into the market as the real thing. In fact, in 2015 a package containing 110 man-made diamonds was passed off as natural stones.

Here is what the diamond industry is doing about it.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/de-beers-tries-to-counter-a-growing-threat-man-made-diamonds-1478434763

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